I’ve said and written a lot about the economic drivers for IPv6. Not all networks are driven by economic drivers, though. Friso Feenstra presented his bank’s decision tree on IPv6. They asked themselves questions like: Are we sure web sites in countries with little IPv4 space will have viable IPv4 access? More users will reach […]
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The IPv6 ON Button: How to Enable IPv6 on Web Sites
You’ve decided you want IPv6 on your web site. Here’s how. Step 1. Find your web host below and follow the instructions. Step 2. Update DNS–create a AAAA record with a test name (www6) pointing to your IPv6 address. Step 3. Test the site from your machine, your phone, and https://ipv6-test.com/validate.php Step 4. Update the […]
Why is IPv6 Faster?
I’ve written several blogs about how IPv6 is faster, and how that results in higher Google search rankings, and that’s good for sales. My presentation at NANOG76 went into it at some depth. The question everyone asks: Why is IPv6 faster? I don’t know. So let’s look at some measurements. This is from APNIC data, […]
Prisoner of IPv4
Ten years ago, I gave a presentation on the Total Cost of Ownership of Carrier Grade NAT (TCO of CGN). I’ve revised that original TCO of CGN spreadsheet, and at NANOG 76 I revisited it in a presentation called “Prisoner of IPv4.” (slides, video) Given certain assumptions about how bad CGN affects customers, it’s possible to […]
IPv6 for Sales and SEO
You can make your web site load 1/2 second faster with ten minutes of easy effort, improving your sales conversions and search ranking. We recently looked at how IPv6 is faster than IPv4. Amazon says 100ms costs 1% of sales. Akamai reported that 100ms can hurt conversion rate by 7%. In Europe, the Americas, and […]
Fast
IPv6 is faster than IPv4. Nobody ever believes me when I tell them this, but the evidence is overwhelming. APNIC 2013: This APNIC chart shows some big spikes, but meaningfully, a significant number of IPv6 connections (the stuff to the left of center) are just a bit faster than IPv4, when measuring Round Trip Time […]
Address Pricing: 2019 and Beyond
Prices in the IPv4 market have been rising. That shouldn’t surprise anyone. What might be a surprise is how fast they’ve been rising recently. The chart above shows the entire history of the market from the data provided by two address brokers. IPTrading provided theirs privately, and IPv4Auctions (by Hilco Streambank) makes their historical data […]
IPv6 Growth
IPv6 deployment continues to grow, but progress is not in a straight line. The rate of growth depends on what you measure, and from where. Skip to the end to see predictions about the future. Users Maybe because they were the first, people most often cite Google’s numbers. This chart is the percentage of hits […]
Who Matters to IPv6 in the U.S.?
The news on IPv6 is mostly good, “up and to the right.” For years, I’ve caught myself thinking, “If only So-and-So would deploy IPv6!” But who, really, would make the biggest difference to IPv6 deployment? I decided to look at the U.S. and try to figure it out. Eric Vyncke shows us the top web sites […]
The State of IPv6-only
Statistics abound on the deployment of IPv6 and where it might be in a couple years (hint: with a Logistic adoption curve, 50% of the world may be using IPv6 mid-2019). So that’s the first half of the transition: dual stack. How are we doing on actually migrating to IPv6? What is the state of IPv6-only? It’s not as crazy a question as it probably […]