We've known we would run out of IPv4 addresses since 1981, when the Internet Protocol was standardized. The numbers dictate that there will never be more than 4,294,967,296 different IPv4 addresses.

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 ...

I don’t know about you, but it has been a long time since my laptop was assigned a public IPv4 address. Most of the time my laptop has a private RFC1918 IPv4 address. Rarely does my computer have a ...

In a world where IPv6 lives and IPv4 addresses are scarce, network providers must fight for survival... or at least, claim their IP blocks quickly. The RIPE NCC, the regional internet registry for ...

Today is the sixth anniversary of World IPv6 launch, but despite progress on the transition 'father of the internet' Vint Cerf thinks it's not moving fast enough. If you're an ISP or enterprise IT ...

Buying IPv4 addresses can help ease the pressure of an enterprise IPv6 migration. Many IT executives have considered what will happen when they need to migrate their organizations to IPv6. Not that ...

I’ve written previously that as we make the slow – and long overdue – transition from IPv4 to IPv6, we will soon be stuck with an awkward interim period in which the only new globally routable ...

The Number Resource Organization, the coordinating mechanism for the five Regional Internet Registries or RIRs, this morning announced that less than 5% of the world’s IPv4 (Internet Protocol version ...

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 ...

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 ...