The big picture: Chinese entrepreneur Lu Heng has built a global IPv4 leasing business from addresses initially allocated to Africa, igniting a legal and political fight over who should control one of ...

Lu Heng began fiddling with the internet as a boy growing up in Shipu, a fishing village in China. During college, he sold time cards for World of Warcraft videogames, then launched a company to ...

Your home address might be easier to find online than you think. A quick search of your name could turn up past and current locations, all thanks to people finder sites. These data broker sites ...

As cofounder of IPXO, an IP management platform, I've spent over a decade in internet infrastructure, watching IPv4 addresses evolve from basic networking tools into valuable financial assets. What ...

Ukraine has seen nearly one-fifth of its Internet space come under Russian control or sold to Internet address brokers since February 2022, a new study finds. The analysis indicates large chunks of ...

Wondering how to change your IP address to improve your online security or to access geo-blocked content? Whatever your reasons, there are several ways to get a new IP address. Every device connected ...

In this next episode of NetworkChuck’s you SUCK at Subnetting course, we dive a bit deeper into how RFC1918 and NAT saved the internet from crumbling due to IP address exhaustion. So don’t miss out as ...

Your PC needs a way to communicate with other devices, and that’s where TCP/IP can help. It makes sure data moves smoothly across the network, whether you’re browsing the web or sharing files. This ...

Waiting for the bus, I chat with a woman named Michelle. As I sometimes do these days, I ask her the last two digits of her address. They are 77. “That’s 385 feet,” I say. “You live 385 feet from the ...