About twenty years ago perhaps? All computers directly connected to the internet must have an individual unique address, and the IPv4 scheme used since the 1980s has a 32-bit address space that ...

An Internet Protocol address, also known as an IP address, is a unique number that identifies a device connected to the ...

The format of an IP address in the traditional 32-bit version of the IP protocol. For the foreseeable future, IPv4 will co-exist with the newer IPv6 version (see IPv6). IPv4 uses a "dotted decimal ...

AWS could rake in between $400 million and $1 billion a year from charging customers for public IPv4 addresses while migration to IPv6 remains slow.… The cloud computing kingpin signaled last ...

Today the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA), the body responsible for the global coordination of IP addressing, handed out its remaining pool of IPv4 addresses. Organisations without ...

Mobile operator and UK ISP Vodafone has today confirmed to ISPreview that customers of their fixed line consumer broadband ...