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IPv6 just turned 30 and still hasn’t taken over the world, but don't call it a failure
Feature The world has passed it by in many ways, yet it remains relevant
Networks31 Dec 2025 | 241
Unofficial IETF draft calls for grant of five nonillion IPv6 addresses to ham radio operators
Would not massively deplete IPv6, might challenge internet governance
Networks02 Dec 2025 | 41
ISPs more likely to throttle netizens who connect through carrier-grade NAT: Cloudflare
When operators see danger, innocent users are dragged down along with bad actors
Networks03 Nov 2025 | 101
Starlink tells the world it has over 150 sextillion IPv6 addresses
But the data describing where they're used - which is help to fight crime - isn't very useful
Networks29 Oct 2025 | 38
IETF Draft suggests making IPv6 standard on DNS resolvers - partly to destroy IPv4
Dragging DNS into the modern age. And if that means fewer people need to buy IPv4, so much the better
Networks20 Aug 2025 | 133
Starlink helps eight more nations pass 50 percent IPv6 adoption
Brazil debuts, Japan bounces back, and tiny Tuvalu soars on Elon's broadband birds
Networks27 Jun 2025 | 14
Ukrainian carriers are leasing their IPv4 addresses to stay afloat - sometimes after being overrun by Russia
Who can begrudge them? Maybe all of us if IP brokers send them to loose operators
Networks05 Jun 2025 | 7
New APNIC director general steps up to steer the internet for 4 billion users
Interview Jia Rong Low hopes to make registries interesting again
Networks27 Apr 2025 | 5
Asia reaches 50 percent IPv6 capability and leads the world in user numbers
India and China deliver a nice milestone, with help from ancient internet history
Datacenter Networking Nexus23 Apr 2025 | 42
Africa's boardless, bossless, generally troubled internet registry to hold elections in June
Receiver warns of ‘potential interferences’ and appoints senior British lawyers to oversee candidate nomination process
Off-Prem22 Apr 2025 |
Need cash? Your IPv4 stash can now be collateral for $100M loans
Yeah, yeah ... if we were all exclusively on IPv6, this wouldn't be a thing. But here we are
Networks13 Mar 2025 | 31
Regional Internet Registries work to prevent one of their own going rogue
APRICOT There's a lot going on at the orgs who regulate IP addresses as they revisit global governance and new leadership comes to APNIC and LACNIC
Networks02 Mar 2025 |
IPv6 may already be irrelevant – but so is moving off IPv4, argues APNIC's chief scientist
There was always more pressing work to do than migrate, and CDNs have changed the rules
Networks23 Oct 2024 | 125
250 million-plus unused IPv4 addresses should be left alone, argues network boffin
Tests show it's just too hard to put the unused 240/4 block to work
Networks16 Sep 2024 | 96
Asia's regional internet registry APNIC names new director general
ICANN's local boss Jia Rong Low gets the gig – and a challenging to-do list
Networks31 Jul 2024 | 3
China pushes for network upgrade blitz as IPv6 adoption slows
UPDATED Almost 800 million use the protocol, with more to come as Wi-Fi mandate arrives order arrives to quit NAT
Networks10 Jul 2024 | 26
250 million-plus reserved IPv4 addresses could be released – but the internet isn’t built to use them
Comment A new chapter in the long saga of the 240/4 block is being written. If you want more and cheaper IPv4, maybe you should help
Networks09 Feb 2024 | 156
IPv4 address rentals to mint millions of dollars for AWS
You were warned
Networks05 Feb 2024 | 84
How not to write about network security – and I'm speaking from experience
Systems Approach At least it's no longer an afterthought
Networks01 Feb 2024 | 20
China requires any new domestic Wi-Fi kit to support IPv6 and run it by default
Beijing set big targets for next-gen networks, but adoption stats suggest it's falling short
Networks17 Oct 2023 | 13
APNIC close to completing delegation of its final /8 IPv4 block
Asian internet registry still has 5M 32-bit addresses from different sources – or practically infinite IPv6s
Networks11 Oct 2023 | 8
AWS: IPv4 addresses cost too much, so you’re going to pay
Perhaps that'll focus your minds on speeding up your adoption of IPv6, eh?
Networks31 Jul 2023 | 68
How a dispute over IP addresses led to a challenge to internet governance
Updated Who is behind this lobby group calling for a stock market of-sorts for network resources?
Networks03 Jul 2023 | 78
Microsoft breaks geolocation, locking users out of Azure and M365
Customers banished to an IP address in Uzbekistan that Redmond’s cloud did not recognize
Off-Prem24 Mar 2023 | 35
APNIC elections: Reform activists rejected, org welcomes stronger election protections
Candidates supported by Morocco-backed group fail to win a single seat on Executive Council
Networks02 Mar 2023 | 3
Africa's internet registry has sometimes needed financial assistance to keep operating, could fail, warns ARIN head
AFRINIC situation has links to the APNIC snafu – and The Reg has more evidence of astroturfing
Legal22 Feb 2023 | 8
APNIC calls in lawyers to handle election code of conduct breach allegations
Threats to voters also reported as vote for regional internet registry heats up
Legal21 Feb 2023 | 7
APNIC warns members to watch out for fake election phone calls
The Register finds evidence of astroturfing in governance stoush
Legal17 Feb 2023 | 3
APNIC election sparks move for rapid rule changes to prevent council stacking
Some of the actors involved in AFRINIC's recent controversies want to reform Asia's regional registry
Networks15 Feb 2023 | 3
IPv6 for Dummies: NSA pushes security manual on DoD admins
There's good advice here for any IT pro dealing with the transition
Networks25 Jan 2023 | 26
OVHcloud opens up Bring Your Own IP service for IPv4 failover
Anyone planning to migrate to IPv6 then? Bueller?
Networks07 Sep 2022 | 4
Two thirds of DNS queries for IPv6 hosts sent to Chinese resolvers fail, researchers find
Network boffins can't say why, suggest not using the worst providers
Off-Prem18 Aug 2022 | 8
Tweaks to IPv4 could free up 'hundreds of millions of addresses'
And 'tweaks' is doing some heavy lifting, there
Networks01 Jun 2022 | 150
APNIC: Big Tech's use of carrier-grade NAT is holding back internet innovation
IPv4 limits apps to simple interactions, and in 2021 IPv6 adoption growth was just three per cent
Networks20 Jan 2022 | 223
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