U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer in Northern District of California has ruled that avoiding an IP address block to connect to a Website is a breach of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA). Some ...

While blocking IP ranges work perfectly, blocking a website or domain is tricky. That’s because there can be a multiple IP attached to the domain, and while you can prevent them, the DNS resolver can ...

Changing your IP address or using proxy servers to access public websites you’ve been forbidden to visit is a violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), a judge ruled Friday in a case ...

Your IP address might be blocked on a website if you try logging in too many times or if you're suspected of being a spammer. You can wait 24 hours if the ban was temporary, or check to see if you've ...

Different sources say that your IP address is a ranking signal used by Google. But how true are these claims? Read on and learn if an IP address can help or harm your rankings in search. Does the IP ...

What is my IP? It’s an odd question in most people’s minds, yet it’s one of the top ten most-searched questions on Google. Those who know what an IP address is will already know most of these searches ...

If you receive an error message when visiting your website or webmail, it is probably because your IP has been temporarily blocked by a firewall. This can happen for ...

You’ve heard about it before: an unknown online assailant has been inundating someone in your town with bothersome messages. Luckily, even though that person’s profile may be devoid of identifying ...

The nomenclature of the web is vast. But even though words become commonplace, people often don't know what they really mean. But they should. An IP address, for instance, is a ubiquitous part of the ...

Internet Protocol (IP) and Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) are the languages computers use to communicate with one another, and they out the rules of the internet. TCP/IP makes the internet work a ...

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