The shortage of IPv4 addresses has reached a critical stage, according to the registries that allocate internet numbers around the world. The Number Resource Organization (NRO), which represents the ...

A possible fix arrived in December 1995 in the form of RFC 1883, the first definition of IPv6, the planned successor to IPv4.

The "IPocalypse" is turning out to be a mild global event, as -pocalypses go. End users won't begin to see the effects for months, and there should be little disruption when it does hit. But the end ...

GUEST OPINION: The realm of the Internet has been expanding ever since its inception. With the recent boost in digitalization, the demand for internet resources has been increasing rapidly. This has ...

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 ...

An IP address indispensable for doing the Internet. The most popular IPv4 address is represented by 32 bits and it is possible to create about 4.3 billion addresses, but in fact the problem of ...

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 ...

On Feb. 3, 2011, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced that the last remaining Internet protocol version 4 (IPv4) IP addresses had been allocated, although it may ...