7/8/2008: Internal News Wire: 2011 Could Mark The Meltdown of the
Internet:

The end of the internet is near - and in less than three years,
according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
(OECD). Can it be true? The problem is that the world is running out
of internet addresses. More than 85%% of the available addresses have
already been allocated and the OECD predicts we will have run out
completely by early 2011.

These aren’t the normal web addresses you type into your browser’s
window, and which were recently freed up by Icann (Internet
Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), the body responsible for
allocating domain names, to allow thousands of new internet domains
ending in, for instance, .london or .xxx.

Beneath these commonsense names lie numerical internet protocol (IP)
addresses that denote individual devices connected to the internet.
These form the foundation for all online communications, from e-mail
and web pages to voice chat and streaming video.