There are tiresomely endless sites available on the internet to browse almost everything that comes to your mind and chances of getting disappointed are minute. Today the time has come where even talented music composers are running out of ideas, so they end up stealing stuff. Now the web has a similar problem and it has come to this stage where all the addresses have started saturating. With everything required to be online, companies have a need to make sense not only in the services that they deliver but also representing themselves over the internet.
Without getting into the technical aspects of it, as a kid I always loved to imagine things which were the most useful and they cease to exist one day. Terrible nightmares after that, but this was one of those psychoactive processes that gave me a hint about this happening someday. Here it is, the European Commission surveyed various companies shifting their gears from the IPv4 protocols to the IPv6 zone which happends to be the newest form of platform for internet addresses to exist. One replicating the other and a famous site being replicated to assume user errors in typing the address.
“In the last 10 years, the internet has become hugely important worldwide from a socio-economic perspective. Only by ensuring that all devices connected to the internet are compatible with IPv6 can we stay connected and safeguard sustainable growth of the internet and the global digital economy, now and in the years to come,” said Detlef Eckert, Director in the Commission’s information society and media directorate-general.
The new version of internet’s addressing protocol will help new addresses establish as a site but with necessary investment by companies. The IPv4 protocol uses 32-bit addresses, which enables the web to support around 4.3 billion unique addresses while IPv6 uses 128-bit web addresses, creating billions of possible new web addresses.
It is not as easy as it seems to the reporter I suppose, still nice article, research is missing.