Timeline of IPv6 adoption

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Year Month and date (if available) Entity type Entity name Stage Details
2008 May 13 Website Google IPv6 experimental Google announces that an IPv6 version of its search website is available at ipv6.google.com.[1]
2010 February 5 Website YouTube IPv6 active YouTube} confirms that it now supports IPv6.[2][3] This had been noticed by commentators on February 1, before the confirmation.[4]
2011 January 11 ISP Comcast IPv6 access support Internet Service Provider (ISP) Comcast activates its first 25 IPv6-enabled users in the Littleton, Colorado area using Apple computers. Comcast uses a Native Dual Stack configuration that supports both IPv4 and IPv6, using DOCSIS 3.0.[5][6]
2011 April RFC 6146, describing the NAT64 standard, and RFC 6147, describing the DNS64 standard, are published.Cite error: Closing </ref> missing for <ref> tag
2011 May 3 Hosting service Linode IPv6 hosting support Server hosting service Linode begins offering native IPv6 support.[7]
2011 May 24 Hosting service Amazon Web Services IPv6 hosting support Amazon Web Services offers IPv6 support for its Elastic Load Balancers (ELBs) in US East and Ireland. All load balancers in these regions have publicly routable IPv6 addresses in addition to their IPv4 addresses.[8]
2011 June 8 World IPv6 Day happens. On this day, major websites, including Google services, Facebook, Yahoo, and Bing, activate IPv6. The vast majority of devices are expected to be unaffected: they will either use IPv6 or fallback to IPv4.[9] The day is deemed successful.[10] See World IPv6 Day and World IPv6 Launch Day for more.
2012 June 6 World IPv6 launch occurs. This is a permanent version of the IPv6 launch that occurred on the previous World IPv6 Day in 2011, instead of the 24-hour version used that day.[11] See World IPv6 Day and World IPv6 Launch Day for more.
2014 June 17 Hosting service DigitalOcean IPv6 hosting support Server hosting service DigitalOcean begins offering native IPv6 support.[12][13]
2014 July 22 Comcast reports that 100% of its broadband mobile network now supports IPv6.[14]
2016 August Facebook reports that over 50% of its traffic from the four major U.S. mobile networks is now over IPv6. Similarly, Akamai reports that over 50% of requests to dual-stacked sites on Akamai from the four major U.S. mobile networks is now over IPv6.[15]
2017 January 25 Hosting service Amazon Web Services IPv6 hosting support Amazon Web Services begins offering IPv6 support for EC2 instances in virtual private clouds (VPCs) in 15 regions, and Application Load Balancers in 9 regions.[16] An initial announcement around this appears to have been made on December 1, 2016.[17]
2017 September 20 Hosting service Google Cloud Platform IPv6 hosting support Google Cloud Platform announces general availability (GA) for IPv6 global load balancing.[18]

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References

  1. ↑ Colitti, Lorenzo; Kline, Erik (May 13, 2008). "Looking towards IPv6". Google Official Blog. Retrieved November 20, 2017. 
  2. ↑ "YouTube Calls on IPv6". YouTube Official Blog. February 5, 2010. Retrieved November 20, 2017. 
  3. ↑ Marsan, Carolyn Duffy (February 5, 2010). "YouTube confirms IPv6 support. Blog post calls next-gen Internet a "win" for openness, security". Retrieved November 20, 2017. 
  4. ↑ Marsan, Carolyn Duffy (February 1, 2010). "YouTube Turns on IPv6 Support, Net Traffic Spikes". Retrieved November 20, 2017. 
  5. ↑ Brzozowski, John (January 31, 2011). "COMCAST ACTIVATES FIRST USERS WITH IPV6 NATIVE DUAL STACK OVER DOCSIS". Retrieved November 20, 2017. 
  6. ↑ "Comcast Deploys Some Dual-Stack IPv6 Cable Modems. Comcast said this week that it has successfully seeded a tiny group of customers with a new type of dual-stack cable modem that can access IPv4 and IPv6 IP addresses without compromises.". PC Magazine. February 4, 2011. Retrieved November 20, 2017. 
  7. ↑ "Linode Launches Native IPv6 Support". Linode. May 3, 2011. Retrieved November 20, 2017. 
  8. ↑ "Elastic Load Balancing – IPv6, Zone Apex Support, Additional Security". Amazon Web Services. May 24, 2011. Retrieved November 20, 2017. 
  9. ↑ "World IPv6 Day begins 24 hours from now. Websites, start your engines.". Google Official Blog. June 6, 2011. Retrieved November 20, 2017. 
  10. ↑ Hogg, Scott (June 8, 2011). "World IPv6 Day Results: New Internet Protocol Proves It's Ready". Retrieved November 20, 2017. 
  11. ↑ "IPv6: countdown to launch". January 17, 2012. Retrieved November 20, 2017. 
  12. ↑ Novet, Jordan. "DigitalOcean starts giving out IPv6 addresses in its cloud". VentureBeat. 
  13. ↑ "Is ipv6 supported and how to get ipv6 adress assigned to my server?". DigitalOcean. September 2, 2013. Retrieved November 20, 2017. 
  14. ↑ Brzozowski, John (July 22, 2014). "COMCAST REACHES KEY MILESTONE IN LAUNCH OF IPV6 BROADBAND NETWORK". Retrieved November 20, 2017. 
  15. ↑ York, Dan (August 19, 2016). "Facebook, Akamai Pass Major Milestone: Over 50% IPv6 from US mobile networks". Retrieved November 20, 2017. 
  16. ↑ "AWS IPv6 Update – Global Support Spanning 15 Regions & Multiple AWS Services". January 25, 2017. Retrieved November 20, 2017. 
  17. ↑ "Announcing Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) support for EC2 instances in Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)". Amazon Web Services. December 1, 2016. Retrieved November 20, 2017. 
  18. ↑ Joshi, Prajakta (September 20, 2017). "Announcing IPv6 global load balancing GA". Retrieved November 20, 2017. 
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