Legal fiction, real money: Over 5,215 IPv4 transfers were processed last year in a market worth $2.3 billion — yet registrars maintain you cannot “own” these addresses.
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Internet governance news and analysis, from the movers and shakers of the internet, and influential companies and institutions.
Early IPv4 adopters gain strategic and financial advantages from scarcity, secondary markets, and slow IPv6 adoption.
Anthropic warns AI could be misused in weapons development, raising concerns over safeguards, governance, and military applications.
A US judge questions Elon Musk’s $134bn damages claim against OpenAI, casting doubt on the valuation in the high-profile AI lawsuit.
IPv4 exhaustion has turned addresses into tradable assets, forcing ISPs to rethink them as strategic infrastructure real estate.
US Commerce Department withdraws proposed AI chip export rule, highlighting uncertainty in Washington’s semiconductor control strategy.
Ofcom orders tech platforms to strengthen age-verification systems under the UK Online Safety Act to protect children.
OpenAI hardware chief resigns after the company’s Pentagon AI deal, highlighting tensions over military use of artificial intelligence.
How IPv4 brokers shape a scarce address market by enabling complex transfers, including Microsoft’s purchase of legacy IPv4 blocks
UK regulator moves to ban inflation-linked mid-contract telecom price increases.
Deutsche Telekom outperformed rivals in Germany last year, driven by subscriber growth and disciplined network investment.
DeepSeek withholds new AI model from Nvidia amid growing US-China technology tensions.