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 ...

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The Number Resource Organization warns that less than 10 percent of the IPv4 address space remains; it's time to start adopting IPv6. The warning comes after APNIC, the registry that hands out IP ...

A total of 33.6 million addresses are on their way to their ultimate users on the Net--meaning the last blocks of IPv4 addresses will be allocated soon. IPv6, hurry up, would ya? Stephen Shankland ...

As we run out of IPv4 address space, is it time to create an exchange for trading unused address blocks? Ars contributors Iljitsch van Beijnum and Timothy Lee tackle the issue. In this article, ...

The following is a guest blog written by one of Canada’s most prominent technology visionaries Bill St. Arnaud.There has been a lot of buzz in the press about the recent news of Nortel selling some of ...

The current crop of Internet addresses could start to disappear this week if a regional Internet registry makes one more request for two blocks of addresses. APNIC (Asia Pacific Network Information ...

In February 2011, the global Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) allocated the last blocks of IPv4 address space to the five regional Internet registries. At the time, experts warned that ...

Cyber criminals are looking to cash in on the fast running out IPv4 addresses. IPv4 is still popular because it routes most Internet traffic today despite the ongoing deployment of successor protocol ...

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 ...