The Number Resource Organization warned Monday that the number of available IPv4 addresses had slipped below 10 percent, with one service predicting that the available addresses will expire in a bit ...

By replacing ad-hoc runbooks and manual procedures with consistent automation, IPXO reduces operational risk while making ...

In addition to IPv4 (often written as just IP), there is IP version 6 (IPv6). IPv6 was developed as IPng (“IP:The Next Generation” because the developers were supposedly fans of the TV show “Star Trek ...

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 ...

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, Tim ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I predicted that IPv4 (Internet Protocol version 4) hungry companies would start shopping for IPv4 addresses and a market would be created. I was right. As part of Nortel's bankruptcy settlement, ...