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Check the "v4 Exhaustion" widget on the right. It currently reckons there are 228 days left. I wrote an article about it on the 28th of May this year, and on that date, the widget calculated there were 427 days left.

No - the estimates I've seen have always been 'the space will run out in a few years'.

It was a best estimate at the time. Reclaiming unused/wasted IPv4 space has helped some but routers have probably had a bigger impact. 5 years ago most ISPs were working under the assumption that the average customer was going to need (at least) 2 IPv4 addresses. My guess is the economic meltdown probably slowed down the growth of the Internet worldwide as well. I haven't seen any firm numbers to back that up it though.