Europe's stock of old-style net addresses has effectively run dry.
Strict rationing of these addresses - called IPv4 - has been started by the body that hands them out in Europe.From now on, companies can only make one more application for IPv4 addresses and, if successful, will only get 1,024 of them.
The internet grew up using an addressing scheme called IP Version 4 (IPv4). In the 1970s when the web was being built the 4.3 billion IP addresses allowed by IPv4 were thought to be enough.
However, the rapid growth of the internet and popularity of the web have swiftly exhausted this pool.
The growth of the net is linked to the size of the pool because everything that connects to the net needs an IP address to send and receive data.
Restrictions Plans are afoot to move to a new scheme, known as IP Version 6 (IPv6), that has an effectively inexhaustible supply of addresses.
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