Latest news, insights and updates about IPv4 leasing and the IP address market.
A botnet is a network of compromised computers or devices running malicious software that lets a single operator control them all remotely. Each infected machine is a “bot,” the person controlling them is the “bot herder,” and the channel t
Network abuse is the use of IP address space to conduct harmful activity spam, phishing, malware distribution, brute-force attacks, scanning, or participating in attacks and abuse reports are the notifications sent to whoever is responsible
Completing an IPv4 transfer does more than move address space from one organization to another. It changes the administrative relationship around the IPv4 block—and that can affect multiple records and services associated with the resource.
A Letter of Authorization (LOA) is a formal document in which the registered holder of an IP address block authorizes another party to announce that address space from a specified Autonomous System Number. It is the written permission that
Most businesses should size IPv4 by starting at a /24 — the smallest block the global Internet will reliably route — and sizing up from there based on how many addresses their actual services consume, plus room for growth. A /24 provides 25
A datacenter IP address originates from a commercial data center, cloud provider, or hosting company, while a residential IP address is assigned by an Internet service provider to a home or business subscriber. The difference is origin: one
Two IPv4 blocks can have the same prefix size, similar market value, and equally willing buyers and sellers—yet require different transaction preparation. The reason is that an IPv4 transaction does not exist only at the commercial layer. T
A proxy reroutes traffic for a specific application through an intermediary server, while a VPN routes and encrypts all of a device’s traffic through a secure tunnel. The short version: a proxy changes the apparent source of some of your tr
CGNAT (Carrier-Grade NAT) is a technique that lets an Internet service provider share a single public IPv4 address among many customers at once, instead of giving each customer their own. It adds a second layer of network address translatio
RPKI (Resource Public Key Infrastructure) is a security framework that lets IP address holders publish cryptographically signed statements about who is allowed to announce their address space in BGP. A ROA (Route Origin Authorization) is th
IP spoofing is the practice of sending Internet traffic with a forged source IP address, making packets appear to come from a different machine than the one that actually sent them. It exploits a foundational design fact of the Internet Pro
BGP hijacking is the illegitimate takeover of traffic destined for IP address space, carried out by announcing routes for prefixes the announcer is not authorized to originate. Also called prefix hijacking, route hijacking, or IP hijacking,
