AFNIC : 2013 – A year of Slow Growth in the Deployment of IPv6

Afnic,the company behind .FR domain extension revealed that as of 2013, 71.3% of .FR domains are IPv6 compatible,which is a slowdown compared with the previsous year’s dynamic expansion.

You can read the announcement after the jump:

“As of 2013, 61.3% of .fr domain names are IPv6 compatible, which is a slowdown compared with the previous year’s dynamic expansion according to Afnic

This month’s AFNIC Domain Name Industry Report focuses on IPv6 deployment and shows that:

2012/2013 was a year of slow growth in the deployment of IPv6 in relation to the dynamic expansion recorded for the 2011/2012 period. The percentage of .fr domain names that have at least one DNS server addressed in IPv6 rose from 40.9% in 2011 to 59.6% in 2012, finally reaching 61.3% in 2013.

Web servers recorded the highest growth (+ 3 points), but with an overall deployment of 7.4% they are still behind mail servers, which are deployed at 10.75%.

Check out here the figure and the details explanations behind it.

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