InfoBlox VP of infrastructure Cricket Liu explains IPv6 using Facebook as an example
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — The results of an IPv6 Census show that IPv6 support has increased by 1900 percent in the past 12 months, largely in part of the introduction of IPv6 support by Go Daddy.
The results of the survey, conducted by the Measurement Factory and sponsored by InfoBlox, were released on Monday.
The script-based, automated census of IPv6 support by a percentage of .com, .net, and .org subdomains showed that Go Daddy represents a significant portion of the growth from 2010. IPv6 support grew from 1.27 percent in the 2010 sample to 25.4 percent in the 2011 sample, according to the survey.
InfoBlox says these results illustrate how a single large registrar can have a “substantial influence” on global IPv6 adoption.
“If your external presence only supports IPv4, then the only devices that can communicate with you will be those with IPv4 addresses,” Cricket Liu, general manager of the Infoblox IPv6 Center of Excellence said in a statement. “To the growing population of pure IPv6 devices, you’re invisible. We can’t ignore the emerging competitive advantages of IPv6, but we also don’t need to adopt IPv6 in one great, costly leap. Focus first on providing IPv6 to the outside world and then work inward in stages. Do this and IPv6 deployment will be relatively painless and prove to be a valuable long-term investment for business growth.”
The top three countries in IPv6 adoption are France, the US and the Czech Republic, according to the survey. In France, registrars Gandi and OVH are responsible for a large part of the IPv6 adoption, and in the Czech Republic, Active 24 took most of the share.
Organically, the percentage of zones that support IPv6 increased more than two-fold over the previous year to more than three percent, according to the press release.
InfoBlox says that since most businesses run on the registrars’ networks, if the registrars added IPv6 support for email and web servers then adoption gains could jump. “If a registrar isn’t supporting IPv6, it creates a serious obstacle to any business wanting to implement IPv6 for its external content,” the press release says.
Overall, InfoBlox says registrars should introduce full IPv6 support on name servers and their email and web servers, and that end-user organizations should ask their registrars about plans to support IPv6. End-user organizations should also ensure that they have a DNS implementation that fully supports IPv6, according to the press release.
InfoBlox suggests that those looking to learn more about IPv6 should visit the InfoBlox IPv6 Center of Excellence to access video tutorials, free trial software, white papers and transition tools. On Dec. 1, 2011, InfoBlox will host a Best Practices for IPv6 webinar as well.
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