Internet service providers (ISPs) are running out of public IPv4 addresses and want to move away from IPv4 in their internal network. Mapping of Address and Port with Encapsulation (MAP-E), an IPv6 ...

We knew the day when we ran out of IPv4 addresses was coming. Now, we're in the last days. The American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN), the nonprofit group that manages Internet addresses for ...

A U.S. bankruptcy court in Delaware recently approved Nortel’s sale of 666,624 IPv4 addresses to Microsoft for $7.5 million. Despite this precedent, a debate is raging in Internet policy circles about ...

The Internet as we know it is now officially too big for its britches. The organization that assigns IP addresses in North America — the numbers that identify every computer, smartphone and device ...

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 ...

It's official: the IPv4-based internet is full, or at least it will be within a few weeks. There are no more IPv4 addresses left to allocate, after APNIC, the Regional Internet Registry (RIR) for the ...

The five Internet Registries now have just 16.8 millions IPv4 addresses left each, according to RIPE NCC – the Regional Internet Registry (RIR) for Europe, the Middle East and parts of Central Asia.

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 ...

Back in February 2011, when the global Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) allocated the last blocks of IPv4 address space to the five regional Internet registries (that further distribute IP ...