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China plans to hugely increase IPv6 adoption by 2025

Paul Hill — Sun, 26 Nov 2017 21:00:01 +0000

The Communist Party of China has announced its plans to phase out IPv4 in favour of IPv6 in the country by 2025. It has also set interim goals for 2018 and 2020 to ensure it stays on track. Read more...

Sky "completes" IPv6 rollout on its broadband network

Paul Hill — Tue, 06 Sep 2016 15:46:01 +0000

Sky has almost finished off its upgrade to IPv6. The move should see Sky customers connections become more reliable as there won't be disconnections caused by IPv4 address renewals. Read more...

Borders selling over 60,000 IP addresses

John Callaham — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 19:29:09 +0000

The bankrupt and shut down book store Borders is trying to sell off over 60,000 of its IP addresses to another software company in a deal that's worth over $780,000. Read more...

IPv6 day on 8th June

Stefano Elia — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 13:24:12 +0000

There was internet panic by some when the last stocks of the traditional IP addresses that all of us are used to were passed down through the system for the last time. Some predicted the... Read more...

Nearly 210 million Internet domains registered in first quarter of 2011

John Callaham — Tue, 31 May 2011 19:15:27 +0000

Earlier this year the Internet ran out of IPv4 addresses. Technically, that means that there is no more address space to give out on the Internet, even though ISPs are using techniques to keep the... Read more...

APNIC reaches final phase of IPv4 allocations

Dave Legg — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 01:11:52 +0000

As we covered recently, IPv4 addresses on the internet are running out, and the transition to IPv6 is growing ever more urgent. Today, APNIC, the Regional Internet Registry charged with allocating IP addresses to the... Read more...

Microsoft buys $7.5m worth of IPv4 addresses

Mike Brown — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 13:23:28 +0000

In an incredible act of desperation, Microsoft announced today its intention to spend $7.5 million on IPv4 addresses from Nortel. The telecom company has begun selling off its assets, including 666,624 IPv4 addresses to Microsoft,... Read more...

IPv4 enters exhaustion phase - Update: Gone!

Dave Legg — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 02:17:52 +0000

Time has just been called on allocations for IPv4 address space, with the last two available ranges being assigned to APNIC, the RIR responsible for allocations in the Asian and Pacific regions. These blocks are 39.x.x.x... Read more...

The IPcalypse is just over a week away

Owen Williams — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 01:29:17 +0000

Back in November last year, we wrote that the "IPCalypse" is only 100 days away. At the time, this seemed like a long time, but the IPcalypse is coming early, with current estimates that IPv4... Read more...

World IPv6 day: Google, Facebook and others testing for 24-hours

Andrew Lyle — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 08:48:46 +0000

On Wednesday, a number of large websites from around the Internet joined the Internet Society to announce World IPv6 day, a 24-hour test period where all the agreed websites will enable the IPv6 protocol alongside... Read more...

The IPcalypse is only 100 days away

Owen Williams — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 03:01:01 +0000

We've all known it's been coming for a long time now, there's even a new, alternative IP addressing scheme that's been developed and implemented -- IPv6 -- but adoption has been slow, and now, things... Read more...

IPv4 addresses down to 5% availability

Tom Dwyer — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 17:17:44 +0000

On Monday, the Number Resource Organization announced that adopting IPv6 addresses was now more important than ever. The news came as it was announced that IPv4 addresses are down to the last 5% of availability. The... Read more...

IANA: IPv4 addresses will dry up in a year

Tzvi Friedman — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 16:23:42 +0000

According to John Curran, president and CEO of the American Registry of Internet Numbers (ARIN), the Internet will run out of IPv4 addresses to allocate in less than a year. The sentiment was echoed by... Read more...

IPv4 Addresses Expected To Run Out In 2010

Sun, 27 May 2007 17:37:01 +0000

It is often said that the number of TCP-IP addresses available on the Internet is running low but this time there are specific dates for when the addresses are predicted to run out. The Internet... Read more...