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April, 2010

  • 5 April

    The forgotten tale of IPv5

    With everyone talking about the pressing need to switch from IPv4 to IPv6, few people ask what should be an obvious question: what about IPv5? Thankfully, Raffi Krikorian over at O’Reilly’s OnLamp.com has the answer. The story of IPv5 dates all the way back to 1979, when a group of …

January, 2010

  • 8 January

    10% of IPv4 addresses left

    Some had feared that the IPv4 address system might run out this year, but Internet users can now breathe a sigh of relief. According to the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA), the organisation under ICANN that manages IPs, 10.2% of the IPv4 system is still left. That’s enough to last …

November, 2009

  • 19 November

    Internet Governance Forum concludes in Egypt

    The fourth-annual meeting of the Internet Governance Forum in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt has just concluded. Hot topics discussed at the international event include IPv6 adoption and America’s role in Internet affairs To spur IPv6 adoption, ICANN CEO Rod Beckstrom proposed a “cash for clunkers” program through which old IPv4 …

October, 2009

  • 29 October

    Europe and Asia slow to adopt IPv6

    A survey of 610 organization in Europe and Asia reveals that only 17% have upgraded to IPv6. This is worrying news considering the current IPv4 address system is slated to run dry by 2011. Adding further gloom and doom to the situation is the fact that only 8% of ISPs …

  • 20 October

    American ISPs stock up on IPv6 addresses

    Facing an imminent shortage of IPv4 addresses, American ISPs are beginning to request more and more IPv6 addresses. So far this year, the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) has received some 300 requests for IPv6 address blocks– greater than the number of requests made in 2007 and 2008 combined. …

September, 2009

  • 17 September

    Don't expect hosts to continue being generous with IPs

    When I signed up for my first dedicated server three years ago, my provider handed out IPs as if they grew on trees. Just for signing up, I received 5 and was allowed unlimited add-on addresses. At one point, I had around 12 IPs on one box. Many hosts have …

August, 2009

  • 25 August

    China feels the IP squeeze

    As IPv4 addresses run out, those countries with the fastest-growing number of Internet users will run low on IPs first. A perfect example of this is China, which currently adds more people to the web per year than any other country in the world. According to Wu Hequan from the …

  • 11 August

    Could IP exhaustion drive up the cost of hosting?

    IP exhaustion, or the increasing scarcity of the IPv4 addresses needed for the web to function, has been a problem for quite some time. ISPs are being pushed to move to IPv6, but thus far few have budged. As things currently stand, the current supply of IP addresses is slated …

July, 2009

  • 30 July

    TLDs slow to adopt IPv6

    It seems as though data center operators and ISPs aren’t the only ones lagging behind in IPv6 adoption. Recent data provided by ICANN shows that 41% of the existing 280 Top-Level Domains have no IPv6 support whatsoever. With IPv4 addresses still slated to run out some time in 2011, this …

  • 24 July

    Report shows world IP address distribution is uneven

    A recently published document, entitled Internet IP Address 2009 Report, yields some interesting information about IP address allocation around the world. IPs are far from evenly distributed. According to the report, the United States holds more IPv4 addresses than any other country– 37.14%. Trailing far behind with the second-greatest number …

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