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If IPv4 were land: visualising address scarcity

Original: If IPv4 were land

A new explainer compares the world's finite pool of IPv4 addresses to a fixed amount of land, illustrating how the ~4.3 billion addresses have been divided up among nations, companies and institutions. The analogy highlights why IPv4 blocks now trade for significant money and why the transition to IPv6 remains slow despite decades of warnings about exhaustion.

Why now: The IPv4 exhaustion debate and rising address prices keep drawing fresh attention to explainers like this

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