… that there are over 2 billion IP addresses (Internet Protocol address), actually 2,001,304,819 to be exact currently allocated to 226 countries all around the world?

According to IP Counts by Country from Whois Source, United States is allocated close to 1.3 billion IP addresses… not surprised there - just another point proving that the United States is the heart of Internet. Japan came in 2nd while Korea is only 7th on the list below China (goes to show China’s Internet services are on the rise).

But look closely… especially at our country, Malaysia… it’s lying lowly 41st on the list at 1,886,305 IP addresses. Even our puny neighbour, Singapore is ahead at 38th on the list with 2.2 million IP addresses. Hong Kong is way better, with 5.4 million addresses placing them 25th on the list.

How I managed to find out the ranking, you might ask… well, I simply used MS Excel 2003’s Import External Data - Web Query function to import the entire HTML table from the website and did a simple sort. Not too sure if this function is available on previous versions of Excel so YMMV. smiley

Now back to our dismal 41st position on the list… goes to prove that broadband penetration or rather, Internet penetration is still very low here… we only needed 1.8 million IP address coz most rural users are still on dial-up Internet access (including yours truly in Timbuktu Nilai - only a 28.8kbps dial-up smiley tooi: ). What to do, there’s only so many lines available for 1515 users that there was no need for more IP addresses.

Sigh… what’s your comment about this? Let’s discuss it at the comments section…