IP Addresses Galore.

The Internet’s Chicken Little is loose. And she is forecasting the end of all the available IP addresses. The computer crash is inevitable, or is it? True, it is the near end of the IP addresses available under the old protocol called IPv4, which by the way had room for about 4 billion IP addresses. And we will run out of those addresses sometime in the next 360 days. If you like, you can acquire some meaningless IP address counting code to put on your website that will keep you and your visitors posted in real-time to this Armageddon Internet address event. My advice. Do not waste your time. The end will come and go just like Y2K, a date in infamy for those of you old enough to remember that falling sky. Unfortunately for the pessimists, here is the real news.

No computer crash will happen because there are plenty more IP addresses in the works.

Digital Armageddon will be postponed again. Because for the last two years, there has slowly been implemented a new protocol called IPv6. And guess what? It has room for trillions of addresses. Remember the make work scare by the consultants for the Y2K programming problems. You may recall that was the last digital Armageddon. Oh yes, I remember it never happened. The year 2000 rolled around and the computers still worked. The IP addresses will too and there will be more than enough to go around many times over. In fact under the new protocol, everyone in the world can have several thousand IPO addresses each. That should be enough so that each of us can have thousands of websites whether we need them or not.

But watch. Some of the fear mongers on FNS or CNN will start doing specials on the end of the IP addresses. You have already read it here. Nothing to fear so move on.

Follow me, the Web light. I will keep you current. Trust me.