Domain Registration Related News
The Internet gets bigger
July 2004
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and
Numbers (ICANN) announced at its bi-annual
five-day meeting in Kuala Lumpar that Internet
Protocol version 6 (IPv6) has been added to the
Internet's Domain Name Servers (DNS) root server
system. ICANN will now be able to allocate IP
addresses and domain names using this latest
version of the Internet. The current version is
IPv4.
IPv6 is a change to the basic Internet
infrastructure that will allow millions more
devices to attach to it. The popularity of the
wireless Internet and Voice over Internet Protocol
(VoIP) has put increasing pressure on the
IPv4-based Internet in recent months and the
introduction of IPv6 is essential to enable the
Net and related technologies to grow.
IPv6 will allow for 340 sextillion (36 zeros)
Internet addresses as opposed to IPv4, which only
allows for 4 billion addresses. The newer protocol
also boasts a 128-bit addressing system as
compared to IPv4's 32-bit system.
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