The internet reached a watershed moment on Thursday when the authority in charge of IP addresses allocated the last available addresses.
The Miami, Florida-based Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) said it had allocated the last of the so-called IPv4 address spaces.
A few days ago, IANA said it was down to the last five unallocated “Class A” batches, each containing 16 million addresses.
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The allocation means that IANA has reached the full capacity of 4.3 billion IP addresses around the globe.
IANA now says it is speeding up work on the next-generation IP address, the Internet Protocol version 6, or IPv6.
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