Behind every laptop or tablet that goes online, behind every web address, behind every stack of servers, there's an IP address. These strings of numbers and dots act as unique identifiers for the ...

Update: An editors' note appears at the bottom of this story. It's the end of the web as we know it. Every Internet-connected computer, smartphone, car, gadget and gizmo is assigned an IP address that ...

The spread of Internet use in Asia and the proliferation of Internet-connected phones worldwide are causing the Internet to run out of numerical addresses, which act as “phone numbers” to ensure that ...

If you've heard or seen the term DNS or DNS server on your computer, you may be wondering what it means, and how it affects your internet.

Oakland, Calif. -- The seemingly boundless Internet is running out of a key resource: new IP addresses. IP addresses, which are somewhat like telephone numbers, allow machines in homes and offices to ...

It turns out even the internet operates within finite dimensions. The web is about to exhaust its supply of Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. Now, technology companies are scrambling to get onto a new ...

"I am not an IP number, I am a free man!" OK, so that's not exactly what actor Patrick McGoohan said in the classic TV show, The Prisoner, but Number 6 would have agreed that people aren't numbers, ...

Internet Protocol (IP) is a numerical identifier for every gadget or network for users accessing the internet. The IP address of a user contains information like location, network identification, ...

The world's limited supply of Internet Protocol (IP) addresses is nearly gone, The Wall Street Journal reports. U.S. businesses looking to expand on the Internet will need to act quickly as inventory ...