> We still still have plenty of available ipv4 It really doesn't look like it. IANA already announced in 2011 that the free pool of addresses was depleted. E

> We still still have plenty of available ipv4 It really doesn't look like it. IANA already announced in 2011 that the free pool of addresses was depleted. Europe's regional internet registrou already announce two years ago that they already allocated their last remaining address pool, and now all they can do is manage a waiting list where they assign addresses of companies which went out of business. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv4_address_exhaustion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv4_address_exhaustion To further refute your point, here's an announcement from Hetzner stating that ipv4 prices skyrocketed due to the exhaustion of ipv4 addresses. https://docs.hetzner.com/general/others/ipv4-pricing/ https://docs.hetzner.com/general/others/ipv4-pricing/