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Re: Top webhosters offering v6 too?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fred Richards)
Sun Feb 6 11:49:14 2011
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Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2011 11:49:06 -0500
From: Fred Richards <fredr@geexology.org>
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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I ran across this link a while back, it shows, of the top 100k
websites (according to Alexa), which ones are IPv6 enabled:
http://www.atoomnet.net/ipv6_enabled_popular_websites.php?complete_list=3Dt=
rue
On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 11:43 AM, Simon Leinen <simon.leinen@switch.ch> wrot=
e:
> Tim Chown writes:
>> Which of the big boys are doing it?
>
> Google - although there don't call themselves a web hoster, they can be
> used for hosting web sites using services such as Sites or App Engine.
> Both support IPv6, either using the opt-in mechanism or by using an
> alternate CNAME (ghs46 instead of ghs.google.com). =A0That's what I use.
>
> None of the other large "cloud" providers seems to support IPv6 for
> their users yet. =A0In particular, neither Amazon's AWS not Microsoft
> Azure have much visible activity in this direction. =A0Rackspace have
> announced IPv6 support for the first half of 2011.
>
> Concerning the more traditional webhosting offerings, I have no idea
> about the "big boys". =A0Here in Switzerland, a few smaller hosters
> support IPv6. =A0And I saw IPv6 mentioned in ads for some German server
> hosting offering. =A0Germany is interesting because it has a
> well-developed hosting ecosystem with some really big players.
> --
> Simon.
>
>
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