Country IP Blocks™

On February 1, 2011 the last seven blocks of IPv4 addresses was distributed. APNIC received three, and ARIN, LACNIC, RIPE and LACNIC each received one.

Two “blocks” of the dwindling number of IPv4 addresses, about 33 million of them, were allocated earlier this week (February 1, 2011) to the Regional Internet Registry (RIR) for the Asia Pacific region. When that happened, it meant the pool of IPv4 addresses had been depleted to a point where a global policy was triggered to immediately allocate the remaining small pool of addresses equally among the five global Regional Internet Registries. Source. Read more…

With the advent of newer web-based and wireless technologies which rely on IP style routing, the internet is rapidly consuming available IP address space.  Or is it? Cell phones, televisions, video game consoles, internet phones, computers and other end user products are certainly gobbling up IP address space, but will we soon run out? It is highly unlikely. Read more…