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 ...

We all know that the Internet's supply of Ipv4 addresses is running ever lower. What you may not know is that IPv4 exhaustion, when we're completely out of available IPv4 addresses, is approaching ...

If you listen to some people, businesses don't need to worry about the growing shortage of Internet IPv4 addresses. Instead, most "network owners find it more affordable to just make do with the ...

The American Registry for Internet Numbers has issued its last IPv4 number for North America. That means that anyone looking to get a number will now be entered onto a waiting list. The transition ...

Executives from ICANN and beyond watch the last current-generation Internet addresses depart--and warn about consequences of extending the IPv4-based Net. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to ...

The global body in charge of allocating Internet addresses expects to hand out the final blocks of IPv4 (Internet Protocol version 4) addresses to regional registrars early next year, it said Monday.

The current crop of Internet addresses could start to disappear this week if a regional Internet registry makes one more request for two blocks of addresses. APNIC (Asia Pacific Network Information ...

Internet policymakers officially handed out the last five blocks of IPv4 address space to each of the Regional Internet Registries (RIRs) at a ceremony held in Miami Thursday morning. BACKGROUND: IPv4 ...

Verizon Business says it has enough IP addresses using the current version of the Internet Protocol, known as IPv4, to support its U.S. business and government customers as they transition to the next ...

Although most of us know the Internet by the domain names we type in our browsers, the Internet is also powered by a plethora of IP addresses, which is what our browsers actually resolve from the ...

When did you first hear concern expressed about the prospect of explosive growth of the internet resulting in exhaustion of the stock of available IP addresses? About twenty years ago perhaps? All ...

1,370 million IPv4 addresses were used up this past decade. We have 722 million left, so the bottom of the pool is in sight. There are 3,706,650,624 usable IPv4 addresses. On January 1, 2000, ...