You'd think by now with the last IPv4 Internet addresses disappearing, we'd all be well on our way to using IPv6 addresses. You'd be wrong. So, it is that there's now a growing market for IPv4 ...

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 ...

Email addresses are obtained from an Internet service provider (ISP). You can generally choose any name for the first part of the address as long as it is not already taken. The second part is the ISP ...

In this era of the World Wide Web, we often use the term "hyper" to describe mega or massive scale: Hyperlinking, hyperspeed, and hyperthreading all spring to mind. Yet there's one area of hypergrowth ...

Today, the standard methods for moving the network/host address boundary are variable-length subnet masking (VLSM) for host addressing and routing inside a routing domain, and classless interdomain ...

Internet Protocol (IP) addresses take the form xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx, where xxx (an octet) is a number from zero through 255. There are public IP addresses and private IP addresses. Public IP addresses are ...

SAN FRANCISCO — The United States doesn’t own the Internet, but it’s held the oversight contract for the organization that runs its address book for many years. That’s set to change Friday. The U.S.