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And with a handful of men, we’ll start all over again….

OK, maybe quoting the Artillery Man from Jeff Wayne’s musical version of The War of the Worlds was a bit dramatic, but on Feb 3rd the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced that the “Available Pool of Unallocated IPv4 Internet Addresses (are) Now Completely Emptied” and “The Future Rests with IPv6″. [...]

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Tonight we’re (not) going to panic like it’s 1999…

At 2pm we had 40 million IP addresses, so based on a rate of about one million addresses every six hours being consumed, we will run out in about 234 hours or Wednesday 2nd February 2010. But is it Y2K all over again??? [...]

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