India's Department of Telecom will set up a National Internet Registry to create more web addresses as the country's existing resources will run out of capacity in one year.
All existing IPv4 addresses will run out by April 2010 because of the sheer volume growth. This makes it necessary for users to move over to IPv6, or the next version that supports a total of 16 billion IP addresses compared to 4.3 billion IPv4 addresses, they said .
Australia-based Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC) is responsible for IPv6 resource allocation in the region.
With the increased Internet penetration in the country, newer devices, applications and services are likely to be deployed, and that will generate a greater demand for IP (web) addresses.