Despite clear warnings, Europe is out of IP addresses—again

  • 26 November 2019
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Last year, RIPE ran out of new IPs—but this week, the used ones are gone, too.

 

Jim Salter - 11/26/2019

 

Monday afternoon, RIPE—Réseaux IP Européens—or the regional Internet Registry for Europe, the Middle East, and parts of Central Asia—announced that it's out of IPv4 addresses.

What this means is that the organization has handed out its last available /22 (1,022 address) netblock. If you need European public IP addresses of your very own, you must get on a waiting list and hope for some other company to die on the vine and relinquish its address space when it does.

 

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