The people who run the internet are expected to announce (update: they announced it) that they’ve allocated the last set of internet addresses today. In a matter of months, the old addresses based on ...

Engineers who created 4.3 billion Internet Protocol addresses back in 1981 probably thought that by the time we ran through all those, we’d be puttering around in flying cars. Flying cars are going to ...

Chinese entrepreneur stirs controversy by amassing 10 million and leasing them to companies outside Africa. Internet service providers cry foul.

Remember when telephone companies ran out of phone numbers and forced us all to dial 10 digits to make a call? The Internet is now in a similar bind, the Wall Street Journal reports. This week, the ...

The roadmap for improving the Border Gateway Protocol calls on the federal government to contract with firms that can provide available secure internet routing technologies. The White House on Tuesday ...

The Minister of Communication, Digital Technology and Innovations, Samuel Nartey George, has urged African countries to ensure their Internet Protocol (IP) resources are protected and remain under Afr ...

The MPAA, RIAA and other copyright holding companies have long used Internet Protocol (IP) addresses to identify users for their lawsuits. They'll find that people at various IP addresses have used ...

This won't come as any surprise to anyone in the network business, but Arbor Networks has just published a study of "native IPv6 traffic volumes across multiple large carriers" and found "only a small ...

The idea that there is an Internet address shortage looming in Asia or any part of the world is "misinformation," according to a senior executive at the body responsible for Internet addresses in the ...

An internet protocol (IP) address is a unique identifying number assigned to a device that connects to the internet. It functions as an online device address―characterized by a string of numbers―used ...