IP addresses are critical for the infrastructure of the Internet – without them the Internet simply would not work. The proliferation of Internet-connected cell phones, e-readers and other devices has ...

We’ve known we would run out of IPv4 addresses since 1981, when the Internet Protocol was standardized. The numbers dictate that there will never be more than 4,294,967,296 different IPv4 addresses.

When did you first hear concern expressed about the prospect of explosive growth of the internet resulting in exhaustion of the stock of available IP addresses? About twenty years ago perhaps? All ...

Word around the net is that there's a new website technology that allows for a faster, safer web browsing experience, and it's called IPv6. As it turns out, this protocol isn't new at all, but instead ...

The distribution of IP addresses has always occurred in a somewhat socialist manner: “to each according to his needs.” But those days are drawing to an end now. So far in 2012 within the North ...

Many of our readers are no doubt familiar with the basics of IP address: They provide a network address that’s used to reliably route Internet traffic to your PC, smartphone, or other device. The ...

We just saw that the mask determines where the boundary between the network and host portions of the IP address lies. This boundary is important: If it is set too far to the right, there are lots of ...

In February, the news broke that the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority had allocated the final blocks of IPv4 addresses to the five Regional Internet Registries to be distributed to parties within ...

Behind every laptop or tablet that goes online, behind every web address, behind every stack of servers, there's an IP address. These strings of numbers and dots act as unique identifiers for the ...

After some legal wrangling, the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) has reclaimed over 735,000 scarce IPv4 addresses that were fraudulently obtained by a businessman who is now facing ...