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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It won’t take years to move to the new state. Most new devices are already using the new system.
Every single device connected to the internet requires an ip address, so it’s very easy to see why the current system has run out. Everyone has a router at home, then a typical family of 4 each have a phone, maybe 1 or 2 of those have a 4g enabled smart watch, etc, etc.
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