The IP address are the numbers that recognize every smartphone, gear and computer connected to the Internet.

There are five huge nonprofit regional organizations that hand out those addresses around the world.

For example, 74.125.224.72, is the address that should take you to Google.

United States and Canada run out of IPv4 Addresses

ARIN has now activated its IPv4 Unmet Requests Policy.

Till recently, organizations in the ARIN region were able to get IPv4 addresses as needed.

The demand for Internet addresses will only continue to grow.

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Hence, to sort out the problem, they came up with a new version of the Internet Protocol.

The old IP has version number 4; the new version is 6.

As a result, the number of available IPv6 addresses is, for all practical purposes, unlimited.

For years, there is work going on whats called IPv6 longer addresses that also include letters.

By using a more complex address, IPv6 increases the minimum amount.

Businesses must now move towards the new and spacious specification IPv6, if they have not switched yet.

The rest of the world moved over to IPv6 long ago.

But North America that hosts many of the worlds biggest websites has finally run out of space.

But Internet service providers and large public organizations has been slow with the adoption.

Or else, the Internet will remain rigid where it is today.

source: www.techworm.net