How can the internet be running out of IP addresses?

Question

I read an article that says “amassing IP addresses has become a lucrative business because the American internet registry and its counterparts around the world are running out of unique addresses—or at least the current version, IPv4, of which there are about four billion. A switch to the next generation is under way, which will make billions more addresses available, but it will take years to complete.” Why is it so hard to just type a code that creates more addresses?

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Answer 1

There is an organization that sell ip addresses. I forget the name but its sells ip ranges to isp and such.