You may not have noticed when you woke up today, but the Internet universe expanded overnight by the trillions. Today at midnight, Greenwich Mean Time, the new Internet protocol system IPv6 was born, ...

Vince Cerf, one of the Internet's fathers, wants you to use IPv6. Network administrators have long known that we're running out of IPv4 addresses. But, IPv6, the next generation Internet protocol, ...

The time for testing is over as Facebook, Cisco, Comcast, and others will soon permanently enable next-generation Internet technology with vastly more elbow room. What's it all mean? Stephen Shankland ...

Recently I have noticed some concrete evidence that the IPv6 Internet is growing. Reports that document IPv6 Internet traffic volumes show that the amount of IPv6 traffic is increasing. The IPv6 ...

Today is IPv6 Day, a geeky holiday that celebrates the web’s transition to Internet Protocol version 6. There’s been a great deal of lead up to today, and much of it has been preceded by a crisis: The ...

Department Editor Evan Hansen runs the Media section at CNET News.com. Before joining CNET he reported on business, technology and the law at American Lawyer Media. The Department of Defense has ...

The clock is running out on IPv4 on the Internet, but even so the next generation of Internet traffic protocols, IPv6, is being adopted very slowly. But, it seems IPv6 is finally making it to broad ...

Version six of Internet Protocol — or IPv6 — was approved as a standard many years ago, but the high cost of rolling it out has been too severe for the slow economic recovery. After all, implementing ...

We are in an awkward point in the history of the Internet. IPv4 address depletion has occurred yet we expect to use IPv4 for the next 15 to 20 years. Organizations see two paths before them. One ...

Geoff Huston, an Australian researcher whose predictions about IPv4 depletion dates have proven uncannily accurate over the years, is still not certain that IPv6 will get deployed in time to avert an ...

This Windows network setting is designed to boost performance — but it could be why your videos keep buffering.

John Curran is CEO of ARIN, the American Registry for Internet Numbers, which provides management and administration for the IP addresses in the U.S., Canada and parts of the Carribbean. Today, the ...