Cyberspace Running Out of Room?

About XXXWriterDude Ken Knox is an adult industry insider who has written for a number of industry publications, including Unzipped, Men, Freshmen, Honcho, In Touch for Men, and X-Factor. He is the associate editor at AVN Online magazine, and is the former associate editor of GAYVN.

It’s news that could spell major T-R-O-U-B-L-E for webmasters, but the reports are slowly coming in that all the technological advances made in Internet-related business is quickly eating up real estate space on the World Wide Web. So, while it’s great that smartphones, IPTV and other nifty gadgets connecting to the Net offer additional routes of content distribution for webmasters, such innovations could also spell the downfall of our beloved cyberspace.

Now, in case that’s got any of you folks running in a panic to your ISPs, it should be noted that it’s not the end of the world or anything. Apparently today’s Internet protocol version 4 (IPv4) will run out of addresses by about 2014, which gives adult webmasters plenty of time to profit off their content. But it is estimated that sometime within the next 15 to 20 years, there will need to be a massive change-over to the mobile-based IPv6. which will make it much easier for telecommunication providers to offer custome services like ring tones and television.

According to a story published at TechWeb.com, all federal networks will need to be IPv6-compatible by mid 2008, but only 30 percent of ISPs will support it by 2010. That means that there could be stormy waters up ahead for webmasters looking to share content via telecommunications devices.

I’ve always wondered how much space there really is available online, and evidently it’s not an endless supply of real estate. Companies will need to build transition strategies to accomodate IPv6. And while some equipment manufacturers will provide the transition to the IPv6 protocol in routine upgrades, others could possibly charge for the upgrades.

Exactly how this might affect webmasters remains to be seen, but it certainly gives us something to think about in the meantime.