IPv4 address depletion has just gone faster. In the first quarter of 2010 alone, the regional Internet registry for Asia Pacific, APNIC, reportedly assigned close to 27 million IPv4 addresses, pulling the global supply further down to 7%.

At this rate, according to Computerworld, the supply will be completely exhausted either next year or 2012. Internet registries attribute the surge in demand to the popularity of mobile phones, laptops, servers, routers, and other devices, which all need IP addresses to be connected. Read Article