Network Address Translator, or simply called NAT, is an important part of the device between your LAN and the Internet. It could be located in the router you use to connect the local network to the ...

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 ...

IP addresses are essential as the foundation of the Internet, and around 2011, when IPv4 addresses were allotted to each Regional Internet Registry, people began saying that 'IPv4 addresses have run ...

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 ...