编者按：本文来自微信公众号“爱范儿”（ID：ifanr），作者吴羚，36氪经授权发布。 全球网民总数已突破 40 亿，IP 地址终于不够用了。 这里说的是互联网协议第四版，即 IPv4。11 月 25 日，全球五大区域互联网注册管理机构之一的欧洲网络协调中心（RIPE NCC ...

IPv4 addresses are set to finally run out in about a month’s time, leaving IPv6 deployment as the only viable solution for Internet growth over the long term. In October, the RIPE NCC – as the ...

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 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 ...