In practice
Ideas in action
My Notes ask who should control the infrastructure everyone depends on. My businesses face the same question every day, with real customers, networks and deadlines attached.
Each organisation here does one part of the work: serving what networks need today, pressing for the change they will need tomorrow, and helping more people see how the system works and take part in it.
Serve networks today
Addresses and names that businesses rely on to stay reachable.
IPv4 addresses and network services for businesses that have to stay online.
LARUS provides flexible, on-demand IPv4 address services, working with address holders, telecoms companies and Internet service providers around the world. Running it keeps bringing me back to one question: who decides a network’s future?
- Who it serves
- Address holders, telecoms companies and Internet service providers.
- Founded
- 2016
The ideas behind it
A network identity a business can keep while its providers and locations change.
LARUS One, offered by LARUS Limited, gives a business a managed network identity for each active location, with renewal guaranteed by LARUS. A certified delivery partner connects the location; LARUS keeps the identity.
- Who it serves
- Offices, hotels, multi-location businesses and private residences whose addresses banks, suppliers and security teams already recognise.
The ideas behind it
A global marketplace for buying, selling and leasing IPv4 addresses, built around what happens after the deal.
i.LEASE, powered by LARUS, lets network operators buy, sell, lease in and lease out IPv4 address space, and coordinates the registry and lifecycle work that follows a transfer or a lease. Customers keep ownership and set their own terms.
- Who it serves
- ISPs, cloud providers and network operators, and address holders who want to sell or lease.
The ideas behind it
.HELP
A domain name that tells people help is here.
.HELP offers domain names within today’s DNS, so support teams, advisers and community organisations can have an address that says what they do. Private domain sales go through LARUS.
- Who it serves
- Support teams, advisers and community organisations.
The ideas behind it
Change the rules
The case that whoever keeps the records must be replaceable.
Making whoever keeps the address records replaceable.
The Number Resource Society takes the case for a right to leave, portable address resources and replaceable registries into public advocacy, evidence and collective action, and works on representation for network operators.
- Who it serves
- Network operators, and everyone whose service depends on their continuity.
The ideas behind it
Bring the system into view
Reporting and education, so more people can judge the rules and join the debate.
Reporting on Internet infrastructure and the institutions behind it.
News, research and analysis on Internet governance, telecoms, cloud services, data centres and IP addresses. BTW.Media keeps its own editorial voice, so readers can weigh the evidence and reach their own conclusions.
- Who it serves
- Readers who want to know how these systems work, who decides and who bears the consequences.
Helping people understand the Internet and take part in shaping it.
Seminars, workshops and technical education, collaborations with educators, and a fellowship programme that supports participation in regional Internet registry meetings with funding and mentoring.
- Who it serves
- Students, professionals and newcomers to Internet governance.
- Founded
- Hong Kong, 2018
The ideas behind it
Talk to us.
For IPv4 addresses and network services, write to LARUS. For everything else, the sites above are the best place to start.