Timeline of IPv6 adoption

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Year Month and date (if available) Entity type Entity name Stage Details
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.[1][2]
2011 May 3 Hosting service Linode IPv6 hosting support Server hosting service Linode begins offering native IPv6 support.Cite error: Closing </ref> missing for <ref> tag
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.[3] The day is deemed successful.[4] 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.[5] 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.[6][7]
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.[8] An initial announcement around this appears to have been made on December 1, 2016.[9]
2017 September 20 Hosting service Google Cloud Platform IPv6 hosting support Google Cloud Platform announces general availability (GA) for IPv6 global load balancing.[10]

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  1. Brzozowski, John (January 31, 2011). "COMCAST ACTIVATES FIRST USERS WITH IPV6 NATIVE DUAL STACK OVER DOCSIS". Retrieved November 20, 2017. 
  2. "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. 
  3. "World IPv6 Day begins 24 hours from now. Websites, start your engines.". Google Official Blog. June 6, 2011. Retrieved November 20, 2017. 
  4. Hogg, Scott (June 8, 2011). "World IPv6 Day Results: New Internet Protocol Proves It's Ready". Retrieved November 20, 2017. 
  5. "IPv6: countdown to launch". January 17, 2012. Retrieved November 20, 2017. 
  6. Novet, Jordan. "DigitalOcean starts giving out IPv6 addresses in its cloud". VentureBeat. 
  7. "Is ipv6 supported and how to get ipv6 adress assigned to my server?". DigitalOcean. September 2, 2013. Retrieved November 20, 2017. 
  8. "AWS IPv6 Update – Global Support Spanning 15 Regions & Multiple AWS Services". January 25, 2017. Retrieved November 20, 2017. 
  9. "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. 
  10. Joshi, Prajakta (September 20, 2017). "Announcing IPv6 global load balancing GA". Retrieved November 20, 2017.