Monday, February 4th 2008
Web Address System Faces Changes; We Will Run Out of IPv4 Domains by 2011
Someone with a lot of spare time and a calculator determined the exact amount of time until we run out of web domains as we know them. By the year 2011, there will simply not be any room on the internet for any more websites the way we know them. Technologically speaking, every web address, or URL, has to be translated by a master server into an IPv4 address, which is a long string of numbers, much like many license plates on automobiles. Now that everyone is making their own website, we're starting to run low on figurative license plates. By 2011, all possible combinations of numbers will be used up. Thankfully, *nix geeks have already thought up the solution: make a new IP version. IPv6 has room for a lot more addresses, and is already in the middle of being adopted to the master server of IP addresses. Eventually, routers and operating systems will need upgrading, because anything that can't read IPv6 will not be able to visit IPv6 websites or view IPv6 content. However, the master geeks over at the master server have assured us all that such grandiloquent upgrades are a long way off.
Source:
Neowin.net
16 Comments on Web Address System Faces Changes; We Will Run Out of IPv4 Domains by 2011
I smell Speed :D.....
Joe
/me keeps surfing teh interwebs for more p0rn...
Joe
A good portion or percentage of these addresses were allocated to monopolies back in the early 80s and to force them to relinquish would be a bit of a mess. The 'make your own web domain' boom has been a major factor too, as the article pointed out.
Alas, the IPv6 will take care of the issue, it's just not as easy to change over or implement as we'd like it to be.
far from less prOn sites there are more and more popin up ever year, prOn is the biggist $ maker on the internet!!!
that said if you tryed to remove them you would get arse raped by alot of perverts.....including many here on tpu :P
and AFIK its not linux geeks that invented IPv6 it was a group of just plain geeks, check wikipedia for more info on ipv6, honestly i dont see the issue currently, i have already seen some stuff in ipv6
example!!!!
start>run>telnet:towel.blinkenlights.nl
that supports ipv6 if its installed on your os, if not install ipv6 support :D
its kool, starwars in ASCII!!!!