Only 14% of IP addresses are left, which is estimated to be used in 811 days which is around 2 years!! IPv4 Exhaustion counter Does that mean the Internet as we know it will stop growing? yes exactly, if we ran out of IP addresses you can not connect your new game console, phone, notebook, etc... to the Internet. Scientists has found many solutions to delay this problem, including “classless network”, and NAT, which allowed us to use the IP address space more efficiently.