internet protocol

Internet

IPv4 black market grows as IPv6 remains undesirable

Dormant domain reactivation and selling becoming commonplace after internet address shift

clock 22 June 2016 • 2 min read

Hardware

Oracle buys Acme Packet for 'session border control'

Oracle pays $2.1bn for IP hardware company Acme

clock 05 February 2013 •

Government

Net address body disbands, condemns lack of government support

6UK says slow uptake of IPv6 will cost UK dear

clock 10 December 2012 •

Networks

UK internet consumer business model 'doesn't work' says Level 3

Fibre communications company calls for pay-as-you-consume broadband contracts

clock 02 August 2012 • 2 min read

Hardware

BT gets superfast Welsh broadband contract

96 per cent of country to have connections up to 80Mbps by 2015

clock 20 July 2012 • 2 min read

Internet

ICANN postpones applications for new top-level domains after 'glitch'

ICANN has taken down a recently introduced system for allocating new top-level domain names after a security bug was uncovered

clock 13 April 2012 •

Internet

Foreign Office to hold talks on whether internet access is a human right

Minister will meet campaigners next week

clock 14 July 2011 •

Internet

ICANN approves domain name overhaul

But businesses must protect their brand against cyber squatters

clock 20 June 2011 •

Communications

Tower of Babel: A linguistic analogue to technological standards

clock 09 May 2011 • 3 min read

Internet

IANA exhausts its supply of IPv4 addresses

With IPv4 addresses now 'out of stock', organisations must turn to IPv6 for future address ranges

clock 04 February 2011 •