Monday, November 2, 2009

Web Could Run Out Of Addresses Next Year, Warn Web Experts

We could run out of web addresses in the next two years, unless businesses and government organisations heed the advice of the European Commission Photo: GETTY

From The Telegraph:

Businesses urgently need to upgrade to IPv6, a new version of the internet's addressing protocol that will hugely increase the number of available addresses.

A survey, conducted by the European Commission, found that few companies are prepared for the switch from the current naming protocol, IPv4, to the new regime, IPv6. Web experts have warned that we could run out of internet addresses within the next two years unless more companies migrate to the new platform.

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