The Asia-Pacific region effectively ran out of IPv4 addresses on Friday, meaning that the region is now conserving addresses for the IPv4-to-IPv6 transition. The region officially moved into its ...

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 ...

In a ceremony in Miami this morning, the final five blocks of IPv4 addresses were given out to the five Regional Internet Registries that further distribute IP addresses to the far corners of the ...

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 ...

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

We all know we're running out of IPv4, the old-style Internet Protocol (IP), addresses). If you're in the network business, you know you need to start switching over to IPv6 soon. What you may not ...

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 ...

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 ...