One of the biggest boons of the digital era is that you can't run out digital goods. Unless the "good" in question is an Internal Protocol address. North America has officially exhausted its supply of ...

The vast majority of: network techs, engineers, IT guys, managers, directors, and now CxOs who came up in tech know IPv4. I work with a lot of sales people who need to know addresses as part of what ...

In the early 1990s, internet engineers sounded the alarm: the pool of numeric addresses that identify every device online was not infinite. IPv4, the fourth version of the Internet Protocol, used ...

The remaining pool of unallocated IPv4 addresses could be depleted as early as December due to unprecedented levels of broadband and wireless adoption in the Asia Pacific region, experts say. The ...

The world's dwindling supply of unallocated IPv4 address space has gotten smaller, as the IANA has handed out four of the 11 remaining unused blocks. The RIRs agreed on how the unused legacy Class B ...

IPv4. Global has launched a new lending program that uses a borrower's IPv4 addresses as collateral. The firm, which ...

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.

A joke in networking circles is that the switch from IPv4 to IPv6 is always a few years away. Although IPv6 was introduced in the early 90s as a result of the feared imminent IPv4 address drought ...

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 ...