Qasim Lone, an employee of RIPE Labs, shows in an analysis that has so far gone largely unnoticed by the public that an IPv4 address range that has actually been reserved for decades is secretly being ...

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 ...

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 ...

Work is afoot to free up several internet protocol version 4 (IPv4) address ranges which have been unroutable as reserved, invalid or used for loopback networks since the 1980s. Seth Schoen, who ...

With the last IPv4 addresses about to be allocated, the good news is that IT managers — at least in the U.S. and Europe — don’t suddenly have to get the next Internet Protocol working. The bad news is ...

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM, January 15, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ — Amazon Web Services’ decision to introduce a usage-based charge for public IPv4 addresses has turned ...

We just saw that the mask determines where the boundary between the network and host portions of the IP address lies. This boundary is important: If it is set too far to the right, there are lots of ...