IP Addresses Through 2025

8bitsrule 1/21/2026|

This article would be more useful if it started with an abstract.

chromehearts 1/20/2026||

IPv6 will change the world. Believe in it

grishka 1/20/2026|

How many more decades will I have to wait to have IPv6 from my ISP though?

simoncion 1/20/2026||

Try switching ISPs. [0] Even Comcast provided me IPv6 service fifteen, twenty years ago.

[0] Yes, I am aware that that's simply not possible for most folks. I used to be most folks, so I definitely know.

grishka 1/20/2026||

You're underestimating just how rare IPv6 is in my country. It's mostly found only in datacenters.

simoncion 1/24/2026||

> underestimating

How could I have even begun to estimate? At the time I wrote my comment, I had zero information on which to base an estimate.

Barathkanna 1/21/2026|

TLDR: IPv4 is fully exhausted and no longer growing. Internet growth now depends on IPv6 adoption and address sharing, but IPv6 rollout is still uneven across regions.