IP stands for Internet Protocol. An IP address is a unique address used by different computers on a computer network to identify and communicate with one another. So, an IP address is used as an identifier to find electronic devices connected to one another on a network. Therefore, each device in the network must have its own unique address. An IP address is like a mailing address that is used to deliver data, that is, files, to a computer.
Some IP Address are meant to be unique within the scope of the global Internet, whereas others are meant to be unique within the scope of a specific network. Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) creates and manages IP addresses for the public Internet. IANA allocates the super blocks of addresses to Regional Internet Registries, which in turn allocate smaller blocks of addresses to Internet service providers.
Static and Dynamic IP Addresses
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