Friendship wrote on Oct 12
th, 2017 at 9:31am:
to give the Russians my CC info through their portal. Not that the Russians don't have it from Equifax or a host of other sources, but still....
oh dear, somebody need to learn The Internet.
Fact : the DDO Store uses IP addresses that reports being in Russia.
Fact : the ICANN the organization responsible for IP Address distribution assigned addresses to geographical regions batch lot. ( read : /8 or /16 networks ) and then delegated the task to regional organization to split it further.
Fact : you can buy a public IP address from any point of the world that geographically belong to any other point of the world.
Fact : there's
NO FUCKING IP ADDRESS LEFT FOR NORTH AMERICA in their allocated networks. ( and it has been that way for almost 5 years now, IIRC 4 years ago a puny /29 was all that was left. [ that's 6 IPs for the ignorants ] )
Corrolary : if an American company needs more IP addresses it needs to buy them from somewhere else in the world.... Russia, Africa, Tobago, Tuvalu, China,
They can't really buy them from Europe, Japan, Oz and a few other places, because said places are also facing the rarity of the IP issue, even if they haven't completely depleted what they had.
it's really really time we all go to IPv6. ( and it's going to be fun as the addresses are not easy to understand and can't be completely tied to a location on the planet. )