As of February 14, ICANN has received at least a hundred registrations in its application website, with the first step being a $5,000 deposit before an application is acknowledged. ICANN Getting bored ...

The 31st international public meeting of Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) got underway in New Delhi with a call to make IPv4 and IPv6 interoperable since the pool of IPv4 ...

If you are using Internet or almost any computer network you will likely using IPv4 packets. IPv4 uses 32-bit source and destination address fields. We are actually running out of addresses but have ...

Today, the last current-generation Internet addresses were divvied up at the highest level. Here's a look at what happens next in rebuilding the Net with the newer IPv6. Stephen Shankland worked at ...

The Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP), which is responsible for the standardization of the third-generation mobile networks, has designated the session initiation protocol (SIP) as the call ...

Twenty years ago, the fastest Internet backbone links were 1.5Mbps. Today we argue whether that’s a fast enough minimum to connect home users. In 1993, 1.3 million machines were connected to the ...

OpenDNS, a popular third-party Domain Name System (DNS) provider, is now offering IPv6 DNS support. The company claims that "OpenDNS is the first major recursive DNS service in the world to offer the ...

So something seemed to happen on our work network over the weekend where "laptops" (I'm waiting on confirmation) are resolving name lookups using IPv6 instead of IPv4 and it's breaking some of our ...

Two years ago, then U.S. federal CIO Vivek Kundra ordered all federal agencies to upgrade their public-facing Web services to native IPv6 by September 30, 2012. So, how did they do? Well, to cut to ...

In this post, I will explain some of the basics that are easy to understand. Before we discuss the differences between IPv4 and IPv6, we need to know some of the basics of IPv4. Finally, I will ...