Market research: how many hosters support IPv6

The number of free IPv4 addresses is rapidly decreasing, but no one is in a hurry to switch to the 6th version of the protocol. There are no exact estimates of the time of full exhaustion of IPv4, and day X is constantly being transferred. Due to the shortage of IPv4 addresses, their market value is rapidly growing and, if before IP addresses at retail could be bought for about $ 1, now there are almost no such offers and hosters ask for an average of three to five dollars for one address, and then and more.

IPv4 was written back in 1981, but it is still used today. IPv4 uses 32-bit addresses, therefore the maximum number of unique IP addresses is 2 ^ 32 = 4,294,967,296 addresses.
It would seem that 4 billion is a lot, but in reality there are very few free addresses.
IPv4 should be replaced by version 6 protocol - IPv6. This protocol uses 128-bit addresses, hence the maximum number of IPv6 addresses is 3.4 × 10 ^ 38 = very much.

The main reason for the slow transition to the 6th version of the protocol, it seems to me, is the slowness of the “house” providers. Site owners are well aware that spending time and money on setting up IPv6 is stupid, since almost no one will use this version of the protocol, which means it is better to spend resources on something else.
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The reasons why home providers do not implement IPv6 are about the same: there are very few websites that support this protocol, and users don’t pay extra for this service, so there’s no point in switching to them. The result is a vicious circle, which, as it seems to me, should be disconnected by both hosters and site owners. As soon as most sites start working through IPv6, home providers will start working faster in this direction.

The IPv6 filter for hosters on vds.menu shows that this protocol supports less than half of hosters: 242 tariffs claim IPv6 support , 406 do not . In my opinion, these are rather sad numbers, since if less than half of the hosters offer IPv6 addresses, then the percentage of those who will use them is even lower.

However, I wondered how many hosters use IPv6 on their own sites. Having written a simple script, I saw a terrifying situation: out of 71 hosters, only 9 support IPv6 on their sites (13%). To somehow encourage these hosters, I decided to write their domains in this topic.

• yourserver.se
• firstvds.ru
• reg.ru
• sinarohost.com
• cishost.ru
• server.ua
• vpsdom.ru
• uapeer.eu
• hostzealot.com

You can check if your provider supports IPv6 here: ipv6-test.com , and check for the presence of IPv6 from any site here: ipv6-test.com/validate.php


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