With someone's IP address, you can learn a user's general location, and disable some parts of their internet browsing ...

You can change your IP address from the network settings controls menu on a Windows PC, Mac, and even your phone.

Behind every laptop or tablet that goes online, behind every web address, behind every stack of servers, there's an IP address. These strings of numbers and dots act as unique identifiers for the ...

Need to know the IP address of your router, as assigned by your ISP, or the IP of your computer, as assigned by your router? These numbers are easy to find when you know where to look. Eric has been ...

Knowing your IP address can help protect your home network and data from prying eyes. Here's how to find it. Trey Paul was a CNET senior editor covering broadband. His 20+ years of experience as a ...

When you change your IP address, you’re telling websites that you’re visiting from another place. If the websites you’re ...

Update: An editors' note appears at the bottom of this story. It's the end of the web as we know it. Every Internet-connected computer, smartphone, car, gadget and gizmo is assigned an IP address that ...

You’ve heard about it before: an unknown online assailant has been inundating someone in your town with bothersome messages. Luckily, even though that person’s profile may be devoid of identifying ...

The spread of Internet use in Asia and the proliferation of Internet-connected phones worldwide are causing the Internet to run out of numerical addresses, which act as “phone numbers” to ensure that ...

Oakland, Calif. -- The seemingly boundless Internet is running out of a key resource: new IP addresses. IP addresses, which are somewhat like telephone numbers, allow machines in homes and offices to ...

As markets and technology become more complex, RIR policies need to change or risk slowing down internet growth and innovation.

"I am not an IP number, I am a free man!" OK, so that's not exactly what actor Patrick McGoohan said in the classic TV show, The Prisoner, but Number 6 would have agreed that people aren't numbers, ...