"In the early hours of 1 February, the organisation that oversees net addresses in the Asia Pacific region put in a request for more addresses.
When these are handed over the central pool of net addresses will be down to its last five blocks of 16 million addresses each.
When those five run out in the Autumn there will be no more of the current generation of addresses available.
Urgent request
The request for addresses was made by the Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNic) as it has almost come to the end of its current allocation of IP Version 4 (IPv4) addresses.
A policy drawn up by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) states that when only five blocks of addresses remain they will be quickly distributed to regional agencies.
A ceremony to mark the handing over of the last five blocks of addresses, known as /8s, is set to take place in mid-March.
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