This page was developed in order to provide metrics for global IPv6 deployment. These statistics are updated daily. Please send questions, comments, or bugs to mleber@he.net
The tools for this report were developed while working on a paper titled "Going Native" about Hurricane's experience of adding extensive native IPv6 peering as a result of a core router and backbone upgrade.
Root Zone Downloaded: Mon Feb 8 01:00:03 2010
Root Zone Processed: Mon Feb 8 15:38:13 2010
Top Level Domains (TLDs): 280
TLDs with IPv6 nameservers: 224
Percentage of TLDs with IPv6 nameservers: 80.0%
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TLDs with nameservers with IPv6 glue in the root zone: 182
Percentage of TLDs that have nameservers with IPv6 glue in the root zone: 65.0%
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TLD domains A AAAA A-glue AAAA-glue downloaded processed
com 84863025 73903871 1150872 1620612 475 (Mon Feb 8 01:11:03 2010) (Mon Feb 8 08:53:14 2010)
de 13155766 11570651 7639 398186 114 (Wed Jan 20 01:22:39 2010) (Mon Feb 8 12:28:27 2010)
net 12743053 10645016 139772 341374 726 (Mon Feb 8 01:12:06 2010) (Mon Feb 8 09:26:33 2010)
org 8028410 6880336 87215 222018 387 (Mon Feb 8 01:12:26 2010) (Mon Feb 8 09:58:06 2010)
info 5679334 4828131 71649 147506 185 (Mon Feb 8 01:12:39 2010) (Mon Feb 8 10:17:20 2010)
biz 2021564 1598652 21186 22180 0 (Mon Feb 8 01:13:52 2010) (Mon Feb 8 10:39:26 2010)
us 1550283 1257412 26995 14783 0 (Mon Feb 8 01:13:15 2010) (Mon Feb 8 10:45:52 2010)
ca 1330488 1137977 3892 15706 7 (Mon Feb 8 01:16:24 2010) (Mon Feb 8 12:10:15 2010)
mobi 940111 706854 31957 4347 32 (Mon Feb 8 01:12:48 2010) (Mon Feb 8 10:30:03 2010)
no 422532 299381 152 1383 3 (Fri Apr 3 02:10:44 2009) (Mon Feb 8 14:09:35 2010)
name 251680 182707 3404 4347 6 (Mon Feb 8 01:14:02 2010) (Mon Feb 8 10:58:07 2010)
asia 216974 147559 3331 1739 25 (Mon Feb 8 01:13:56 2010) (Mon Feb 8 10:52:03 2010)
sk 196900 149441 10456 3398 0 (Mon Feb 8 01:18:56 2010) (Mon Feb 8 14:34:09 2010)
kz 40502 27321 6 59345 0 (Mon Feb 8 01:18:27 2010) (Mon Feb 8 13:37:26 2010)
aero 31458 4580 8 301 0 (Mon Feb 8 01:12:43 2010) (Mon Feb 8 10:23:41 2010)
ma 31415 10575 5 33934 0 (Wed Dec 9 02:20:47 2009) (Mon Feb 8 13:55:39 2010)
am 26394 7391 45 550 4 (Mon Jul 6 01:58:16 2009) (Mon Feb 8 11:19:20 2010)
bg 21582 16360 9 1703 12 (Mon Feb 8 01:14:53 2010) (Mon Feb 8 11:45:40 2010)
tj 18416 4363 1 141 0 (Mon Feb 8 01:20:06 2010) (Mon Feb 8 15:03:20 2010)
ac 14956 9158 3 225 0 (Mon Feb 8 01:14:04 2010) (Mon Feb 8 11:04:11 2010)
ge 14505 12248 9 236 1 (Mon Feb 8 01:15:30 2010) (Mon Feb 8 12:46:49 2010)
ag 13631 9829 52 275 0 (Mon Feb 8 01:14:05 2010) (Mon Feb 8 11:10:12 2010)
to 13215 10349 36 1224 0 (Mon Feb 8 01:19:11 2010) (Mon Feb 8 15:12:36 2010)
tc 9956 7761 98 490 0 (Mon Feb 8 01:18:57 2010) (Mon Feb 8 14:57:19 2010)
ba 9132 7502 7 6753 0 (Mon Feb 8 01:16:50 2010) (Mon Feb 8 11:33:13 2010)
pe 8765 5463 2 177 0 (Mon Feb 8 01:18:20 2010) (Mon Feb 8 14:15:38 2010)
vg 8090 6016 61 326 0 (Mon Feb 8 01:19:21 2010) (Mon Feb 8 15:29:11 2010)
gt 7917 5681 4 478 2 (Mon Feb 8 01:15:42 2010) (Mon Feb 8 13:05:21 2010)
ec 6920 3705 5 133 0 (Mon Feb 8 01:15:19 2010) (Mon Feb 8 12:34:41 2010)
lk 6308 4001 1 5057 0 (Mon Feb 8 01:16:56 2010) (Mon Feb 8 13:49:36 2010)
sc 5446 4017 5 185 0 (Tue Aug 25 02:13:24 2009) (Mon Feb 8 14:24:57 2010)
jm 4883 2054 3 6604 0 (Mon Feb 8 01:16:54 2010) (Mon Feb 8 13:22:09 2010)
gov 4534 3581 4 861 0 (Mon Feb 8 01:15:36 2010) (Mon Feb 8 12:56:14 2010)
gl 3829 1740 3 18 0 (Mon Feb 8 01:15:32 2010) (Mon Feb 8 12:49:59 2010)
kg 3465 2644 2 242 0 (Mon Feb 8 01:16:41 2010) (Mon Feb 8 13:28:18 2010)
ug 3258 1955 1 75 0 (Mon Nov 9 02:12:10 2009) (Mon Feb 8 15:23:11 2010)
sh 2913 2272 10 94 1 (Mon Feb 8 01:18:44 2010) (Mon Feb 8 14:28:06 2010)
gd 2897 1496 1 238 0 (Mon Feb 8 01:15:29 2010) (Mon Feb 8 12:40:46 2010)
io 2830 2280 4 91 0 (Mon Feb 8 01:16:11 2010) (Mon Feb 8 13:16:06 2010)
sn 2441 1000 5 235 1 (Mon Feb 8 01:18:53 2010) (Mon Feb 8 14:40:25 2010)
lc 1604 450 1 40 0 (Mon Feb 8 01:16:54 2010) (Mon Feb 8 13:43:30 2010)
mw 1381 526 3 0 0 (Mon Feb 8 01:17:49 2010) (Mon Feb 8 14:00:15 2010)
jo 1381 950 1 40 0 (Mon Feb 8 01:17:26 2010) (Mon Feb 8 13:25:12 2010)
bd 1200 742 1 2002 0 (Mon Feb 8 01:14:15 2010) (Mon Feb 8 11:39:35 2010)
sl 953 574 1 17 0 (Mon Feb 8 01:18:47 2010) (Mon Feb 8 14:37:16 2010)
cu 859 231 0 650 9 (Mon Feb 8 01:15:03 2010) (Mon Feb 8 12:17:57 2010)
bb 766 425 4 0 0 (Mon Feb 8 01:14:11 2010) (Mon Feb 8 11:36:17 2010)
nf 722 512 5 12 0 (Mon Feb 8 01:17:53 2010) (Mon Feb 8 14:03:32 2010)
cv 557 327 1 72 0 (Mon Feb 8 01:14:58 2010) (Mon Feb 8 12:21:00 2010)
ao 238 115 1 130 0 (Mon Feb 8 01:14:06 2010) (Mon Feb 8 11:24:10 2010)
int 148 84 1 65 0 (Mon Feb 8 01:16:11 2010) (Mon Feb 8 13:10:02 2010)
ne 89 31 1 69 0 (Mon Feb 8 01:17:51 2010) (Mon Feb 8 14:00:24 2010)
tn 53 5 0 764 2 (Mon Feb 8 01:19:08 2010) (Mon Feb 8 15:06:35 2010)
au 20 1 0 27 4 (Fri Apr 3 01:55:15 2009) (Mon Feb 8 11:24:10 2010)
total 131729749 113488303 1558930 2921458 1996
Total registered domains with AAAA records: 1558930
This tells you the number of registered domains
that have added IPv6 for their primary domain, for the set of
TLDs above, which is a partial listing based on what TLDs we could get
access to. It does not include subdomains i.e. ipv6.google.com,
which means our number is a lower bound and that the number of IPv6
enabled domains is even higher.
Eventually the really important number here is the total number of domains returning AAAA records. However, right now a large amount of the domains included in this number are the result of SEDO (search engine domain optimization) parking operations. By looking at the gradual increase in the people that have AAAA glue in the TLD zone files for their authorative nameservers we can tell that the trend of individual companies enabling IPv6 for their websites and other infrastructure is upwards.
Top 1000 Downloaded: Fri Feb 5 19:30:34 2010
Top 1000 Processed: Mon Feb 8 15:47:16 2010
Top 1000 Usenet Servers: 1000
Top 1000 Usenet Servers with a direct IPv4 address: 721
Top 1000 Usenet Servers with a direct IPv6 address: 79
Percentage of top 1000 Usenet Servers with direct addresses with IPv6 support: 10.96%
We can measure the percentage of networks running IPv6 by comparing the set of ASes in the IPv6 routing table to those in the combined set of IPv4 and IPv6.
IPv4 and IPv6 RIBs Last Parsed: Mon Feb 8 00:11:32 PST 2010
ASes using IPv4 and IPv6: 1888
ASes using IPv4 or IPv6: 33715
Percentage of ASes (IPv4 or IPv6) running IPv6: 5.8%
One amusing measure of IPv6 deployment to ask the question: What percentage of IPv6 reverse DNS servers are reachable via IPv6?
(ping tests and dns queries run from a server on Hurricane Electric's IPv4 and IPv6 backbone in Fremont, California.)
IPv6 rDNS Nameservers Last Polled: Mon Feb 8 02:28:47 PST 2010
IPv6 rDNS Nameservers with an IPv4 address: 2389
IPv6 rDNS Nameservers with an IPv6 address: 924
IPv6 rDNS Nameservers reachable via IPv4 (ping or dns): 2067
IPv6 rDNS Nameservers reachable via IPv6 (ping or dns): 775
IPv6 rDNS Nameservers reachable via IPv4 or IPv6: 2151
IPv6 rDNS Nameservers reachable via IPv4 and IPv6: 691
Percentage reachable IPv6 rDNS Nameservers reachable via IPv6: 36.0%
Actually, the reason we looked at IPv6 reverse DNS servers was to get some hosts on both IPv6 and IPv4 so that we can compare IPv6 vs IPv4 latency.
IPv6 rDNS Nameservers where IPv6 is faster than IPv4 (by more than 1ms): 389
IPv6 rDNS Nameservers where IPv4 and IPv6 are the same speed (within 1ms): 101
IPv6 rDNS Nameservers where IPv4 is faster than IPv6 (by more than 1ms): 201
IPv6 rDNS nameservers where IPv6 is as fast or faster than IPv4 (within 1ms): 490
Percentage of IPv6 rDNS Nameservers where IPv6 is as fast or faster than IPv4 (within 1ms): 70.9%
Alexa provides an approximate list of the most popular sites on the web.
In the report below, the raw domain is the base domain, such as free.fr, which does not have an AAAA record (at the time of this writing. However www.free.fr *does* have a AAAA record. So we check both.
Another convention is to add an AAAA using ipv6 as a subdomain, i.e. ipv6.google.com. The reason so many domains show up as having A records for "ipv6." subdomains is because many domains use wildcard records in DNS which respond to queries for any subdomain.
Alexa Top 1 Million Domains Downloaded: Mon Feb 8 00:11:43 2010
Alexa Top 1 Million Domains Processed: Mon Feb 8 00:49:28 2010
Alexa 1M raw domains: 1000000
Alexa 1M raw with a direct IPv4 address: 923575
Alexa 1M raw with a direct IPv6 address: 1450
(top 50)
google.ca 2001:4860:8004::68
softlayer.com 2607:f0d0:1000:11:1::2
cyberciti.biz 2607:f0d0:1002:11::4
tribune.com 2002:a3c0:1712::a3c0:1712
internic.net 2620:0:2d0:200::9
freebsd.org 2001:4f8:fff6::28
ripe.net 2001:610:240:22::c100:68b
ucla.edu 2607:f010:3fe:201:101d:9ff:fe32:adee
leaseweb.com 2001:1af8:3100:1:214:22ff:fe1e:d380
nyaatorrents.org 2002:53e9:a52a::832:3316:5042
arin.net 2001:500:4:13::81
geenstijl.nl 2a00:d00:ff:131:94:228:131:131
kenengba.com 2001:470:1f04:8c1::2
monash.edu.au 2001:388:608c:c91::117
koreus.com 2001:41d0:2:4133::1
filezilla-project.org 2a01:198:200:5b7::2
python.org 2001:888:2000:d::a2
spitsnieuws.nl 2a00:d00:ff:131:94:228:131:131
torrentfreak.com 2607:f128:40::174
google.com.kw 2001:4860:8005::63
kino.de 2001:a60:9003:a000::b003
fedoraproject.org 2610:28:200:1::fed0:1
animesuki.com 2001:4d88:ffff:ffff:30:524:ac23:2
servage.net 2a01:3b0:1:1::1:a
icann.org 2620:0:2d0:200::7
itb.ac.id 2001:d30:3::22
truecompanion.com 2001:470:1:48::d8da:b883
keenspot.com 2001:470:1:3a::13
comicgenesis.com 2001:470:1:3a::14
sify.com 2001:e48:0:10::10
weeronline.nl 2001:888:30af::206:85
he.net 2001:470:0:76::2
infomaniak.ch 2001:1600:3:7::101
zoover.nl 2001:888:30af::206:81
maxconsole.net 2a00:d00:ff:131:94:228:131:131
exchangecash.de 447f:0:4b51:e8:447f:0:5151:e8
ietf.org 2001:1890:1112:1::20
mediabiz.de 2001:a60:9003:a000::b00c
bt-chat.com 2001:470:b040:20::1
steadfast.net 2607:f128::2
proua.com 2a01:d0::10:1
456bereastreet.com 2a02:750:0:501::101
torrentbits.ro 2001:4d18:0:1::32
ubuntu.ru 2001:780:0:25:206:5bff:fe04:8bcb
bumptop.com 2607:f590:0:ffff::3d
pastebin.ca 2610:1e8:2:20::e8b8:97
debian-administration.org 2001:41c8:10:62::1
www.gov.hk 2406:0:6a:8001::200a
cbn.net.id 2001:d10:2:80::80
pcc.edu 192:192:168:168:1:1:1:1
www. + Alexa 1M domains: 1000000
www. + Alexa 1M with a direct IPv4 address: 969244
www. + Alexa 1M with a direct IPv6 address: 1978
(top 50)
www.softlayer.com 2607:f0d0:1000:11:1::1
www.google.az 2001:4860:8005::93
www.ucla.edu 2607:f010:3fe:301:101d:9ff:fe32:a7db
www.cyberciti.biz 2607:f0d0:1002:11::4
www.sakura.ne.jp 2001:e40:100:407::d2e0:ac35
www.doctissimo.fr 2a01:7b0:2:3::26
www.internic.net 2620:0:2d0:200::9
www.ripe.net 2001:610:240:22::c100:68b
www.dti.ne.jp 2001:2e8:22:13::103
www.kddi.com 2001:268:fd01::1
www.odn.ne.jp 2001:278:0:1106::4
www.lokalisten.de 2001:608:0:1008::46
www.nyaatorrents.org 2002:53e9:a52a::832:3316:5042
www.monash.edu.au 2001:388:608c:c91::117
www.geenstijl.nl 2a00:d00:ff:131:94:228:131:131
www.free.fr 2a01:e0c:1:1599::1
www.arin.net 2001:500:4:13::81
www.python.org 2001:888:2000:d::a2
www.torrentfreak.com 2607:f128:40::174
www.kenengba.com 2001:470:1f04:8c1::2
www.kino.de 2001:a60:9003:a000::b003
www.gamershell.com 2a00:d00:ff:131:94:228:131:131
www.icann.org 2620:0:2d0:200::7
www.keenspot.com 2001:470:1:3a::13
www.hentai-foundry.com 2607:f0d0:1003:c::30
www.truecompanion.com 2001:470:1:48::d8da:b883
www.nnm-club.ru 2001:470:1f0a:1505::2
www.iastate.edu 2610:130:101:102::f0
www.spele.nl 2a00:f80::10
www.fedoraproject.org 2610:28:200:1::fed0:2
www.bt-chat.com 2001:470:b040:20::1
www.ulaval.ca 2620:0:1af0:144:ffff::fff2
www.univie.ac.at 2001:62a:4:1::80:108
www.hitachi.co.jp 2001:240:400::8591:e013
www.koreus.com 2001:41d0:2:4136::1
www.google.ci 2001:4860:8005::6a
www.cnnic.cn 2001:dc7:1::daf1:6129
www.spitsnieuws.nl 2a00:d00:ff:131:94:228:131:131
www.servage.net 2a01:3b0:1:1::1:a
www.k12.pa.us 2001:5e8:0:1000::fc
www.fudan.edu.cn 2001:da8:8001:2:21e:c9ff:feb5:eace
www.rmc.fr 2001:41d0:1:7b20::1
www.auone-net.jp 2001:268:fd02::8
www.weeronline.nl 2001:888:30af::206:86
www.01net.com 2001:41d0:1:148::1
www.t7online.com 2a01:198:540:1:f0d4:82d9:200:3
www.maxconsole.net 2a00:d00:ff:131:94:228:131:131
www.google.sn 2001:4860:8004::68
www.he.net 2001:470:0:76::2
www.iana.org 2620:0:2d0:1::193
ipv6. + Alexa 1M domains: 1000000
ipv6. + Alexa 1M with a direct IPv4 address: 241103
ipv6. + Alexa 1M with a direct IPv6 address: 1081
(top 50)
ipv6.comcast.net 2001:558:1002:5:68:87:64:59
ipv6.netflix.com 2620:0:ef0:13::20
ipv6.google.com 2001:4860:b006::67
ipv6.google.co.jp 2001:4860:b006::63
ipv6.2ch.net 2407:3000:6:175::12
ipv6.google.cn 2401:3800:c001::68
ipv6.scribd.com 2607:f0d0:1004:2::2
ipv6.berkeley.edu 2607:f140:ffff:ffff::80
ipv6.seznam.cz 2a02:598:1::101
ipv6.iwiw.hu 2001:4c48:2:a::1
ipv6.novinky.cz 2a02:598:1::106
ipv6.sony.co.jp 2001:cf8:0:6b::190
ipv6.gazeta.pl 2a02:bd8:1::50fc:91
ipv6.freemail.hu 2001:4c48:2:f::100
ipv6.21cn.com 2042:8800:1::3
ipv6.bt.com 2002:c171:3a71::1
ipv6.lide.cz 2a02:598:1::103
ipv6.denic.de 2001:608:6::1
ipv6.pku.edu.cn 2001:da8:201:1129:203:baff:fe2f:163c
ipv6.nyaatorrents.org 2002:53e9:a52a::832:3316:5042
ipv6.df.eu 2a00:1158:0:100::3
ipv6.dyndns.com 2607:f590:0:ffff::29
ipv6.tokyotosho.info 2001:470:dc56:b00::25:1
ipv6.sjtu.edu.cn 2001:da8:8000:1::80
ipv6.vt.edu 2001:468:c80:210f:0:1c6:1a85:8564
ipv6.monash.edu.au 2001:388:608c:c91::117
ipv6.weeronline.nl 2001:888:30af::206:85
ipv6.podnapisi.net 2a02:840:1:2:117::1
ipv6.afraid.org 2001:470:d19b::203
ipv6.ovh.com 2001:41d0:1:10::d5ba:2122
ipv6.gatech.edu 2001:468:300:ee01:a00:2bff:fec4:4e8e
ipv6.spoluzaci.cz 2a02:598:1::102
ipv6.italiansubs.net 2001:41d0:1:8364::1
ipv6.peta.org 2001:4978:f:36f::2
ipv6.uk.to 3ffe:2c03:120:c1f3:baba::5
ipv6.spele.nl 2a00:f80::10
ipv6.unm.edu 3ffe:2900:11:10::1
ipv6.gsa.gov 2620:0:150:ffad::5
ipv6.hopto.org 2001:470:8:145::1
ipv6.trueinternet.co.th 2001:fb0:100:1:58:97:5:30
ipv6.nnm-club.ru 2001:470:1f0a:1505::2
ipv6.fudan.edu.cn 2001:da8:8001:108:211:43ff:fecd:f734
ipv6.sidn.nl 2a00:d78:0:fd:217:a4ff:fe8d:f4b2
ipv6.comicgenesis.com 2001:470:1:3a::14
ipv6.lsu.edu 2620:0:da0:f001::7
ipv6.infomaniak.ch 2001:1600::ffff
ipv6.finviz.com 2001:1ba0:2a0:5965:0:30:35:1
ipv6.ustc.edu.cn 2001:da8:d800::66
ipv6.zoover.nl 2001:888:30af::206:82
ipv6.ku.ac.th 2001:3c8:1303:1125::18