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.


Information for Press and Media

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Alex Bishop at Racepoint Group UK
Tel: +44 20 8811 2142
Email: ripencc _at_ racepointgroup _dot_ com

IPv4 Exhaustion:

Statistics:

    • Statistics on IPv4
    • Statistics on IPv6
    • Geoff Huston, Chief Scientist at APNIC, the Regional Internet Registry (RIR) for the Asia Pacific region, maintains one of the most complete overviews of global IPv4 allocations and assignments on his personal website
    • Internet number resources status reports from all five Regional Internet Registries (RIR)

General Information: