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We are running out of email addresses!!!

By David

Vint Cerf, known as a father of the Internet, announced that we would shortly be out of Internet addresses. 95% of the original 4.3 billion combinations have been used. The explosion of the internet and  electronic communications  have eaten up the possible combinations.

Fear Not! Cerf, who now works for Google says that Google is shifting to a new format, IPv6. This format used 128 bits rather than the current 32 bit format. For more information on the new format see,  http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/01/world-ipv6-day-firing-up-engines-on-new.html.

This new format will result in 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456 unique addresses.  E-mail formats may change but there will also be a way to add more as we all must have our email everyday. (Post-DEL)

Full post as published by Cocky Law Blawg on January 25, 2011 (boomark / email).