Minutes before Trump left office, millions of the Pentagon's dormant IP addresses sprang to life

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7. I find this hard to believe, being that .gov and .mil are solely for governmental and military use,

so this one company claiming these numbers is far fetched and won't stand. The IP registration process (who owns an IP address and the assignment of IP addresses has been controlled by several companies (keep track of ownership/etc. for assignment purposes, kind of like the npa nxx wire telephone numbers we see today (formerly Bell Core handled, I'm not sure who handles it now, Bell Core was spend off into a separate company, that I can't recall the number of). They probably also handled the establishment of extensions too in the IP address, i.g., gov, mil, com, etc.