The day of reckoning still looms -- it's just been pushed out as the major Internet players have developed ingenious ways to stretch those available numbers In February 2011, the global Internet ...

A total of 33.6 million addresses are on their way to their ultimate users on the Net--meaning the last blocks of IPv4 addresses will be allocated soon. IPv6, hurry up, would ya? Stephen Shankland ...

Update: An editors' note appears at the bottom of this story. It's the end of the web as we know it. Every Internet-connected computer, smartphone, car, gadget and gizmo is assigned an IP address that ...

Behind every laptop or tablet that goes online, behind every web address, behind every stack of servers, there's an IP address. These strings of numbers and dots act as unique identifiers for 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, ...

Our team tests, rates, and reviews more than 1,500 products each year to help you make better buying decisions and get more from technology. The Number Resource Organization warned Monday that the ...

In a ceremony in Miami this morning, the final five blocks of IPv4 addresses were given out to the five Regional Internet Registries that further distribute IP addresses to the far corners of the ...

IP addresses are critical for the infrastructure of the Internet – without them the Internet simply would not work. The proliferation of Internet-connected cell phones, e-readers and other devices has ...