The big picture: Chinese entrepreneur Lu Heng has built a global IPv4 leasing business from addresses initially allocated to Africa, igniting a legal and political fight over who should control one of ...
In February 2011, the global Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) allocated the last blocks of IPv4 address space to the five regional Internet registries. At the time, experts warned that ...
The big picture: In the world of tech, IP addresses are akin to digital real estate. Just like in the physical realm where urban sprawl is an issue, the IPv4 territory is becoming increasingly crowded ...
In April, ARIN, the (North) American Registry for Internet Numbers, announced that it had reached “phase 4” of its IPv4 countdown plan, with fewer than 17 million IPv4 addresses remaining. There is no ...
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 ...
An address lookup is a technical term if observed in-depth. Considering the dimensions of technology, a general address lookup aims to provide details of an address that is being provided from a ...