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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 | 13
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
Huawei handed 2,596,148,429,267,413, 814,265,248,164,610,048 IPv6 addresses
That's 2.56 decillion of them, destined for use in CDNs and the cloud – and APNIC needed 83 decillion more to handle the request
Networks06 Dec 2024 | 90
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
Proof-of-concept code released for zero-click critical IPv6 Windows hole
If you haven't deployed August's patches, get busy before others do
OSes28 Aug 2024 | 14
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
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
China updates national computing plan with calls for more edge, storage, memory, and … Blu-ray?
Beijing wants latency down, more sharing of compute capacity
Off-Prem09 Oct 2023 | 10
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
China again signals desire to shape global IPv6 standards
As local usage slips despite annual call to do better
Networks28 Apr 2023 | 36
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
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
US seeks standards dominance, lets Huawei access previously forbidden crypto tech
Beijing thinks standards should include central network controls. Washington does not
Security09 Sep 2022 | 18
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
Sina Weibo, China's Twitter analog, reveals users' locations and IP addresses
Sssshhhh! Nobody tell Elon Musk
Security29 Apr 2022 | 9
China again signals desire to shape IPv6 standards
Calls for accelerated adoption as local users pass 700 million
Networks26 Apr 2022 | 70
How legacy IPv6 addresses can spoil your network privacy
One bit of kit using EUI-64 screws up protections – study
Networks22 Mar 2022 | 66
IPv6 is built to be better, but that's not the route to success
Opinion Why won't you love me, sobs perennially spurned protocol
Networks24 Jan 2022 | 267
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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