Brandergroup

The University of North Alabama (UNA) has strengthened its network infrastructure by acquiring its own IPv4 address space with assistance from Brander Group Inc., an IPv4 brokerage and network infrastructure services provider. The transaction gives UNA di

ICANN closed the 2026 New gTLD window on 12 August, and the only useful question left is who wanted what badly enough to file. Reveal Day is the point where private strategy becomes public information, and every brand lawyer, registry hopeful, and securit

Illinois has turned BEAD into a location-level build list. That is a better commercial signal than another round of broadband speeches, because contractors, financiers, and operators can finally point at a map and ask what it will take to make each site l

IPv4 leasing in 2026 is capacity management with an invoice attached. The buyers who do it well are not chasing the cheapest block in the room; they are buying clean inventory, usable routing, and support that does not disappear the moment the prefix goes

AS9156, listed in RIPE as BBC-TRANSIT, is a tidy example of what BGP peering is really doing under the hood. The aut-num record says routes from AS1299 are accepted with local preference 70, which means the session is allowed to learn routes while the ope

In 2026, email deliverability looks a lot more like network operations than copywriting. If a domain or sending IPv4 starts turning up on major blacklists, the fallout is immediate: throttling, spam-folder placement, and a support queue full of people ask

A household IP is no longer proof of a household. IPGeolocation's 2026 comparison makes the split obvious: the products worth buying do more than hand you a city name and a yes/no proxy flag. They combine fresh location data, provider attribution, confide

Fastly's June 2026 data puts a hard number on what operators have been seeing in traffic logs. AI requests on its network rose about 30% from January through May, roughly 6.5x faster than human traffic. That is not a small drift in behavior; it is a new c

IPv4 has spent years being treated like a bad ex: publicly disowned, declared obsolete, and replaced in polite conversation by the glorious promise of IPv6. But when push comes to shove, the industry keeps sneaking back into its DMs with a purchase order.

New Mexico's BEAD approval turns a funding announcement into a build schedule. The state now has a federal green light for $382M, and more than 42,500 locations are no longer a policy abstraction. They are poles, permits, splices, installs, and the contro