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Fast Facts

The IANA pool of available IPv4 addresses was exhausted on 3 February, 2011.

The RIPE NCC is still able to allocate IPV4 addresses to its members from its pool of IPv4 addresses for an unspecified period.

The Internet will not stop functioning when the remaining IPv4 addresses are depleted.

Deploying IPv6 is the only option for Internet growth and evolution.

Archived articles on IPv4 Exhaustion

The RIPE NCC has been writing about IPv4 exhaustion for some time, here are a selection of articles dating back to 2003.


IPv4 Address Space Allocation Rate: January 2007

IPv4 Address Space Allocation Rate as published in January 2007

IPv4 - Running Out of Time?

A report from 2003 on the state of IPv4 Exhaustion

IPv4 - Fast Facts

Archived page from 2007.