IPv4 address exhaustion and transferring to IPv6 addresses has been a hot topic of discussion on the internet. Be it RIPE IPv4 addresses or IPs from other RIRs. Yes, the internet has run out of IPv4 addresses. And yes, there are many reasons for this. Some of them are:   • IPv4 is capable of offering a maximum number of 4.3 billion IP addresses. And the number of internet     users have already exceeded this value. • Many users are demanding and using more than one IP address. • Even after the introduction of IPv6, the demand for IPv4 addresses is still on the rise. RIPE Registry The internet is categorized into five regions for better IP address allocation. An[…]