IPv6 growth is slowing and no one knows why
Stop us if you've heard this one before: the rollout of IPv6 is going slower than expected.
In fact, nearly seven years after the eternally optimistic World IPv6 Launch launched, we are still only at just over a quarter availability of the new internet protocol.
But if that wasn't bad enough, the latest news is that even that unimpressive level of growth is slowing and may even been tailing off.
In the lead-up to regional internet registries literally running out of IPv4 blocks, it seems that quite a few big companies – including tech giants and ISPs – decided to go all-in on IPv6. And that led to a relatively fast growth in the availability of IPv6 – up from virtually nothing to around 15 per cent in mid-2017.
