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 The world is going to run out of Internet addresses in less than a year and inaction by internet providers could lead to broken applications and more expensive net connections, experts have warned.
The protocol that supports the Internet, known as IPv4, provides only about 4 billion IP addresses that is the unique sequence of numbers assigned to each computer, website or other internet-connected device.
 Presently there are only 232 million IP addresses left in the world.
And this allocation is set to be exhausted in about 340 days.
"When the IPv4 protocol was developed 30 years ago, it seemed to be a reasonable attempt at providing enough addresses, bearing in mind that at that point personal computers didn't really exist," the Sydney Morning Herald quoted John Lindsay, carrier relations manager at internet service provider (ISP) Internode, as saying.
Internet experts found out a solution to the problem several years ago, that was moving to a new protocol, IPv6. It provides trillions of addresses for every person on the planet.
But most of the Internet industry including ISPs and websites has been hesitant in investing for IPv6.
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