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 ...

There are many uncertainties surrounding the depletion of the IPv4 address space and the move to IPv6. Currently, five Regional Internet Registries give out address space to anyone who can show a ...

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 ...

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 ...

A vibrant market for buying and selling IPv4 addresses is emerging, and policymakers are clarifying the rules associated with how network operators can monetize this precious Internet addressing ...

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 ...

The body that controls the allocation of IP address blocks to regional internet registries has handed out the last blocks of Internet Protocol version 4 addresses. Businesses must be prepared to shift ...

One of the biggest boons of the digital era is that you can't run out digital goods. Unless the "good" in question is an Internal Protocol address. North America has officially exhausted its supply 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 ...

The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) has handed out its last IPv4 addresses, leaving the remaining blocks to regional registries that in some cases may exhaust them within a few months. The ...

The chief executive of the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) said today that any transfer of IPv4 addresses from one organization to another will need to be compliant with established ARIN ...