The crazy long number is a version 6 IP address, as opposed to the version 4 which you are familiar with. The world is very slowly transitioning to IPv6, since there's a shortage of IPv4 addresses. IPv6 addresses are four times as long, which means that there are 340 trillion trillion trillion...
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