"I am not an IP number, I am a free man!" OK, so that's not exactly what actor Patrick McGoohan said in the classic TV show, The Prisoner, but Number 6 would have agreed that people aren't numbers, ...

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 ...

More than 87% of active domain names are found to share their IP addresses (i.e. their web servers) with one or more additional domains, and more than two third of active domain names share their ...

We all know we're running out of IPv4, the old-style Internet Protocol (IP), addresses). If you're in the network business, you know you need to start switching over to IPv6 soon. What you may not ...

With someone's IP address, you can learn a user's general location, and disable some parts of their internet browsing experience. Every device connected to the internet has an IP address, which helps ...

This year has witnessed two IP seizure incidents. In the first case, a dispute over IP addresses took place between AFRINIC, a Mauritius-registered private company that is one of the five Regional ...

After Russia had occupied part of Ukrainian territories in 2014 and 2022, a number of Ukrainian Internet service providers ...

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 ...

It turns out even the internet operates within finite dimensions. The web is about to exhaust its supply of Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. Now, technology companies are scrambling to get onto a new ...

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