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The Internet is running out of free space required for addresses allocation. The question has been raised for a long time to date but many ISPs seem to be little concerned about the problems that may arise in near future. ARIN and RIPE, which administer IP addresses on either side of the Atlantic, each received two /8 address blocks in November. A fifth block went to their African equivalent. Thus, there are only seven /8 blocks - 2.7 per cent of the total of 256 - unallocated by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA).

According to the latest report by HubSpot the ever popular microblogging website Twitter while still continues its growth has slowed down it its growth pace. The report reveals that the social networking service achieved 13.0% growth rate in March last year while the growth sharply declined by October when the rate was about 3.5%.

Yet, the trend didn’t appear to change to a positive direction instead the growth rate continued to drop in October.

 Internet seems to have its addresses running short with none to be left as early as next year. According to a recent survey y the European Commission that polled the 610 government, educational and other industry organizations questioned across Europe, the Middle East and Asia, only 17% of them have shifted to a new Internet addressing technique called IPv6.

 This week the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, is holding a meeting in Seoul where the participants will be discussing one of the biggest changes of the Internet in its 40 years history. ICANN is expected to approve international domain names that can be written in languages other than English.

 One of the Internet founders Sir Tim Berners-Lee in an interview for the New York Times said that he regrets addition of slash characters to the web's URL address system. He stated that the use of slash characters in the URL was not compulsory and made the web addresses needlessly longer than they could be.

According to Berners-Lee the protocol names such as HTTP or FTP should be separated from the rest of the address but lately it turned out that only the colon was necessary.