Re: Who applies for IP address

This is the kind of info that will take a long time to arrive at on
the net, I think.

Thanks.


Unruh wrote:
IP addresses are a pyramid. The top level doles out whole blocks to
regions, who dole out blocks to organizations who dole out to
sub-organizations and/or individual addresses to individuals.

Thus for you to get an IP address you apply to one of those organisations (
a University, a company, an Internet Provider, etc)

They will also give you a domain name which is also heirarchical so that
the name to IP address translation can efficiently find that link.

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