Web Performance, Branding, and Social Media
In: Internet| The Web| Web analytics| analytics| registrars
10 Apr 2009From my IPV4 database, here are the the Registrar and Country statistics as of April 10 2009.
Since the last update, ARIN has crossed the 1.6B IPV4 address boundary, adding nearly 5M IPV4 Addresses. APNIC matched this growth by adding an additional 5M new addresses of its own.
Registrar Number of IPV4 [...]
Tonight, I figured out how to add the Resolved IP Addresses for a host to measurement data and store that information for further debugging. It was very simple – I was trying to find complex solutions to this issue.
Turns out the solution is built right into PERL: The Socket module.
My thought is that I will [...]
In: Internet| registrars
15 Mar 2009On a daily basis, I update the Geographic IP database that I created many years ago. Although not as powerful as some of the commercially available Geographic databases, it has more than served my purposes over the years.
One of the benefits of collecting this data is being able to extract substantial metrics on the distribution [...]
In: smp
8 Apr 2005Joi Ito, at the ICANN meetings in Brazil, has posted some interesting comments and links regarding the exhaustion of the IPv4 Space. [here]
The growth in private IP Spaces has helped stave off this exhaustion, even through the massive growth in the home broadband and mobile markets. I forsee a compromise coming shortly where IPv6 is [...]
IP Addresses by Country and Registrar — August 2008
In: Commentary| Technology
25 Aug 2008The five top-level IP Registrars (ARIN, RIPE, APNIC, LACNIC, AFRINIC) manage tens of million IPV4 and IPV6 addresses, assigning them to networks around the world. These addresses are key to accessing the Internet for all end-users.
About once a year, I generate the statistics out of the IP address database I maintain. The last one was [...]