What happens when there are no more ipv4 addresses left?

[DedidamNET]

Looking forward when the world will adopt IPv6 on a wide scale. I feel that the prices that are charged now (speaking as a provider) are not really worth it. 

 

[Hostfolks]

ipv6 needs to kick on more, also there are some large ranges pretty much doing nothing or wrongly used. If companies like MicroSoft get audited you'd probably find they don't need 1000's of ipv4.

 

[cristipuc]

This will not happen, because many will migrate to IPv6 in the future.

 

[DomainBop]

What happens when there are no more ipv4 addresses left?

Criminals try to cash in is one of the things that happened when IPv4 was depleted.


Related article on IPv4 depletion from today's edition of The Register

 Crims set up fake companies to hoard and sell IPv4 addresses


IPv4 addresses are now so valuable that criminals are setting up shell companies so they can apply for addresses, then resell them to users desperate to grow their networks...


...criminals look for dormant ARIN records and try to establish themselves as the rightful administrator. ARIN has 30,556 legacy network records, she said, but a validated point of contact for only 54 per cent of those networks. The remaining ~14,000 networks are ripe for targeting by hijackers who Nobile said are only interested in establishing legitimacy with ARIN so they can find a buyer for un-used IPv4 addresses possessed by dormant legacy networks.

According to the article there has been a sharp increase in hijackings since IPs were depleted in September 2015:

Nobile said ARIN detected about 50 such hijacking attempts between 2005 and 2015. Since announcing IPv4 depletion in September 2015 the organisation has detected about 25.

...speaking of hijacked IP space, here's a recent WHT thread 

 

[TheLinuxBug]

...speaking of hijacked IP space, here's a recent WHT thread 

Glad to hear that ignorant fuckwit  Gotzman  got what was coming to him.  I knew that guy was a shyster after my dealings with him.  May his network burn to the ground for his continued amoral and unethical treatment of customers and abuse of IPs acquired at the pure inconvenience of  the customers which he acquired.  Possibly some of the best news I heard all day.


Cheers!

 

[drmike]

Glad to hear that ignorant fuckwit  Gotzman  got what was coming to him.  I knew that guy was a shyster after my dealings with him.  May his network burn to the ground for his continued amoral and unethical treatment of customers and abuse of IPs acquired at the pure inconvenience of  the customers which he acquired.  Possibly some of the best news I heard all day.


Cheers!

But Goatman denies it all and calls the negative speakers impotent. #THISISWHATHMATTERS


Too bad the Register didn't mention him and the Protraf folks by name.  Both dicked with UK entities in their theft.  Protraf fellow has UK holding company where they changed data info to on borrowed ranges.

 

[WiredBlade]

IPv6 is used more and more often and it would be outrageous for an ISP to not support IPv6.

 

[AndriusP]

IPv6 usage grows every year. In 2020 it will be around 50% of IPv6 usage and IPv4 IP addresses will be worthless.

 

[Nogics Technologies]

Their is nothing to worry about. Over 70% ISP are now IPV6 friendly and left are planning to become. IPV6 is future of IP numbering system which will make the dream of every user having their public IPV6 number true.