Starlink helps eight more nations pass 50 percent IPv6 adoption Eight more nations have passed at least 50 percent IPv6 deployment, according to the Internet Society (ISOC). In a Thursday post, Technology Program Manager Mat Ford wrote that Brazil, Guatemala, Hungary, Japan, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Sri Lanka, and Tuvalu have all joined the majority IPv6 club since June 2024. Tuvalu’s rise is …
A few years ago, most of Tuvalu's internet presence was on servers in the SF Bay area, thanks to its judicious marketing of the ".tv" domain that it owns. Are all these IPv6 addresses actually in Tuvalu, or were they calculated based on the .tv = IP mappings?
It's about addresses that are used by Tuvalu residents, not people who bought domains from Tuvalu. Technically, they probably are counting any address registered to Tuvalu, so if Tuvalu's operating some of them for their own servers marketing .tv domains, those probably count, but if you buy a .tv address and put a server on the other end, that address won't count unless you bought the IP address from Tuvalu and you didn't.
So, er... I hate to ask but... when does The Reg plan on adding IPv6 to their website for all these nations that are passing 50% IPv6 adoption?
You know, Tuvalu has it now. Probably time to act.
Think I might have mentioned it before. A couple of times. Over several decades. And each time told "coming soon".
I mean, I don't want to rush you or anything, but my site was IPv6 at least 15 years ago.
Apparently, the problem is that the forum code can't handle it. Presumably this means the db tying posts & logins to IP address.
You can frig a local AAAA record for www.theregister.com and it will work. Also, their media address (regmedia.co.uk) is already ipv6 enabled. (regmedia.com is squatted by someone else)
It will never be "the year of the Linux desktop", as Linux is only a kernel that doesn't operate on its own.
It was the year of the GNU/Linux desktop in 1995 or so, as you could use a recent computer in freedom again - alas that freedom was savagely ripped away with the addition of the first of many proprietary programs into Linux in 1996.
You're not going to get an authoritative list, but https://stats.labs.apnic.net/ipv6/ is your best bet if you want a breakdown by ISP. If you just want by country then there's a few extra options:
https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html#tab=per-country-ipv6-adoption
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