The distribution of IP addresses has always occurred in a somewhat socialist manner: "to each according to his needs." But those days are drawing to an end now. So far in 2012 within the North ...

When the IPv4 address pool was depleted in 2011, some of the most impacted companies were internet service providers (ISPs) that needed these IPv4 addresses to grow their businesses. Less impacted, at ...

As we run out of IPv4 address space, is it time to create an exchange for trading unused address blocks? Ars contributors Iljitsch van Beijnum and Timothy Lee tackle the issue. In this article, ...

The day of reckoning still looms -- it's just been pushed out as the major Internet players have developed ingenious ways to stretch those available numbers In February 2011, the global Internet ...

In February 2011, the global Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) allocated the last blocks of IPv4 address space to the five regional Internet registries. At the time, experts warned that ...

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 ...

In recent years, universities have faced a perfect storm of factors that have contributed to an educational financial crisis. The cost of delivering high-quality higher education has skyrocketed, ...