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title: When will RIPE run out of IPv4 addresses?
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pub_date: 2019-10-10
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author: ungleich
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twitter_handle: ungleich
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_hidden: no
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_discoverable: yes
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abstract:
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This month? Next month? 2019?!
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body:
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As of today,
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[RIPE has less than 1 million IPv4 addresses available](https://www.ripe.net/manage-ips-and-asns/ipv4/ipv4-available-pool).
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![ripe ipv4 pool](/u/ripe_ipv4_pool_20191010.png)
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So the question is, how long until RIPE does not have any IPv4
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addresses anymore? Or more specifically,
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**which is the exact date on which RIPE will have run out of IPv4
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addresses**?
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We are very curious and wonder who can best predict the exact date.
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And because it's a lot of fun to guess the right time, we will give
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out an **IPv6 only VM for free** to the person that guesses the exact
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date.
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## Guesses
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* [@zajdee](https://twitter.com/zajdee/status/1182236698266275846) 2019-11-15
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* [@pb_double](https://twitter.com/pb_double/status/1182236265233752064):
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2019-11-27 0610 UTC (very precise!)
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* [@agowa338](https://twitter.com/agowa338/status/1182236572047101952) 2019-11-28
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* [@ReplicaJune](https://twitter.com/ReplicaJune/status/1182235564180942849):
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2019-12-12
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## Want to guess?
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Just follow [@ungleich](https://twitter.com/ungleich) on Twitter
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and post your guess as [a reply to our tweet](https://twitter.com/ungleich/status/1182234419102388224).
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