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05-19-2011, 03:23 PM #1
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The Internet is running out of unique addresses, and big Internet companies like Akamai, Google, and Facebook want businesses to pay attention.

The reason: if businesses continue to ignore the problem, the innovation that has defined the Internet industry for the past 15 years could come to an end.

As Akamai engineering vice president Andy Champagne puts it, "If we don't have ability to issue new IP addresses, next big app that comes online -- Twitter, Facebook -- won't have capacity to get space on the Internet.

Cable and broadband providers can't get new addresses and can't expand to new markets. We'll go from environment that's not constrained technically to one that is constrained technically."



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05-19-2011, 03:29 PM #2
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Ye I already knew this :S Why can't they make a new ip number Smile?
05-19-2011, 03:30 PM #3
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Originally posted by .xMerkii View Post
Ye I already knew this :S Why can't they make a new ip number Smile?


Thats what I was wondering as well, can't they just use a different number from now on.
05-19-2011, 03:31 PM #4
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If the internet runs out, Most no-lifers will die.

I see it as a good outcome :y:


....But I will miss it :'(
05-19-2011, 03:33 PM #5
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I thought you could put infinity stuffs on the internets :derp:
05-19-2011, 03:33 PM #6
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Originally posted by Konsole View Post
If the internet runs out, Most no-lifers will die.

I see it as a good outcome :y:


....But I will miss it :'(


It's not going to completely die out just new websites can't be created.

I can see them deleting inactive sites due to this :y:

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05-19-2011, 03:41 PM #7
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The internet is controlled by hard drive space and bandwidth allocation, not ip addresses. Those are just ids for various web servers and personal computers, they are also not limited. This is the same BS they launched with the 2k bug and phone numbers.
05-19-2011, 03:43 PM #8
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That's not good :( Surely for something as popular as the internet action should be taken well before
05-19-2011, 03:46 PM #9
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Originally posted by .xMerkii View Post
It's not going to completely die out just new websites can't be created.

I can see them deleting inactive sites due to this :y:


Imagine how much DOMAINS+HOSTING is going to cost :O !
05-19-2011, 03:47 PM #10
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It will never happen. No

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