The internet has run out of IP addresses and what happens after that is anyone's guess

How many billions of ip adresses are out there that are not used or infrequently used.If a fee was charged for every ip adress many millions would be surrendered that arn't used or closed because they haven't paid their fee for their rental.This would result in millions of vacant ip addresses until a suitable new system is put out for general use.

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Just when I thought my iPhone would support my needs forever...

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This is quite possibly an 'over scare' tactic designed to make us feel 'Phew that was close" when a new programme has to be bought by every user of the net, at $200 a pop, in order to go on doing what we do now. Rather like supermarkets claiming that prices will double on some item so that when they 'only' go up by 25% we feel we have been done a favour.

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over the last 2 years 450 million IP addresses have been given out. Everyone was meant to have switched to IPv6 while there were still IPv4 addresses available. Nobody predicted how fast things have grown in the last couple of years. We will need IPv4 address for at least the next 5 years to make the transition. In the asia pacific region we have about 7 months before we're out of addresses. Some regions have until next month! Things are going to change more expenses for the consumer and less quality.

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Where does the fee go? Who charges for it? No-one actually owns the internet you know...

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Beware anything with the dreaded "i-" prefix.

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Why not just put a 3 at the start of all IP addresses, it worked for telephone numbers.

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Hmmm smells like the millennium bug.

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