Including, but not limited to, the creation of the Domain Name System on 23 June 1983. In perhaps, one of the greatest additions to IP addresses, DNS was created. Could you image typing 216.75.60.116 just to get to a website? One thing for sure is that the internet would not be what is today without DNS. No one would be fighting over three letter domains, or two letter for ... Read full entry

The Internet's Space Shortage So much for the notion that there is "unlimited space on the internet"... The problem, says Leslie Daigle, chief Internet technology officer for the non-profit Internet Society, is simple math: the Internet Protocol addresses that are assigned to differentiate networks and individual computers at the edges of the Internet have 32 digits, allowing for only a finite number of addresses - about 4.2 billion. That may ... Read full entry