The number of IPv6-connected users has doubled since World IPv6 Launch began on June 6, 2012, when thousands of Internet service providers (ISPs), home networking equipment manufacturers, and Web companies around the world came together to permanently enable the next generation of Internet Protocol (IPv6) for their products and services. This marks the third straight year IPv6 use on the global Internet has doubled. If current trends continue, more than half of Internet users around the world will be IPv6-connected in less than 6 years.

“The year since World IPv6 Launch began has cemented what we know will be an increasing reality on the Internet: IPv6 is ready for business,” said Leslie Daigle, the Internet Society’s Chief Internet Technology Officer. “Forward-looking network operators are successfully using IPv6 to reduce their dependency on expensive, complex network address translation systems (CGNs) to deal with a shortage of IPv4 addresses. Leaders of organizations that aspire to reach all Internet users must accelerate their IPv6 deployment plans now, or lose an important competitive edge.”

As IPv6 adoption continues to grow, members of the worldwide Internet community are contributing to its deployment. Statistics reported by World IPv6 Launch participants underscore the increasing deployment of IPv6 worldwide:

• Google reports the number of visitors to its sites using IPv6 has more than doubled in the past year.
• The number of networks that have deployed IPv6 continues to grow, with more than 100 worldwide reporting significant IPv6 traffic.
• Australian ISP Internode reports that 10 percent of its customers now use IPv6 to access the Internet.
• Akamai reports that it is currently delivering approximately 10 billion requests per day over IPv6, which represents a 250 percent growth rate since June of last year.
• KDDI measurement shows that the number of IPv6 users of KDDI has doubled and that IPv6 traffic has increased approximately three times from last year.

World IPv6 Launch participants have worked together to help drive adoption, leading to the creation of World IPv6 Day in 2011, in which hundreds of websites joined together for a successful global 24-hour test flight of IPv6. This was followed by World IPv6 Launch in 2012, in which more than a thousand participants permanently enabled IPv6 for their products and services, including four of the most visited websites: Google, Facebook, YouTube, and Yahoo!.

As a platform for innovation and economic development, the Internet plays a critical role in the daily lives of billions. This momentum has not slowed — IPv6 adoption continues to skyrocket, fast establishing itself as the “new normal” and a must-have for any business with an eye towards the future.

For more information about companies that have deployed IPv6, as well as links to useful information for users and how other companies can participate in the continued deployment of IPv6, please visit: www.worldipv6launch.org

About the need for IPv6
IPv4 has approximately four billion IP addresses (the sequence of numbers assigned to each Internet-connected device). The explosion in the number of people, devices, and web services on the Internet means that IPv4 is running out of space. IPv6, the next-generation Internet protocol which provides more than 340 trillion, trillion, trillion addresses, will connect the billions of people not connected today and will help ensure the Internet can continue its current growth rate indefinitely.

About the Internet Society
The Internet Society is the trusted independent source for Internet information and thought leadership from around the world. With its principled vision and substantial technological foundation, the Internet Society promotes open dialogue on Internet policy, technology, and future development among users, companies, governments, and other organizations. Working with its members and Chapters around the world, the Internet Society enables the continued evolution and growth of the Internet for everyone. For more information, visit: www.internetsociety.org

This Internet Society news release was sourced from:
https://www.internetsociety.org/news/one-year-after-world-ipv6-launch-number-ipv6-connected-internet-users-doubles

“Businesses are unclear on how to really approach the new gTLD programme and are as yet undecided on how they should position themselves,” said Ben Anderson of NetNames, commenting on new research commissioned by Deloitte into general awareness of the new gTLD programme and the action those businesses are taking.

The research, conducted in the UK and US, asked 200 global consumer-facing businesses with 3,000 to 10,000+ employees about their intellectual provisions relating to the introduction of new gTLDs.

The research compared both the US and UK as well as comparing businesses with five to ten thousand employees to those with over ten thousand employees. While there were differences between the groups, overall the differences were not that great most of the time.

According to the research, around 80 percent of businesses in both countries had at least a “good general awareness” of the coming new gTLDs and over two-thirds of businesses considered there was a medium to high risk to their intellectual property such as through cybersquatting or trademark infringement.

Businesses in both countries also believed there was adequate intellectual property and trademark protections in place, with benefits outweighing any risks. Around two-thirds of businesses in both countries were of this opinion while around 15 percent of businesses disagreed.

And while there were adequate protections, businesses also believed the methods in place to proactively protect their trademarks was difficult, with around 85 percent of businesses thinking the process was at least somewhat difficult. And the introduction of the Trademark Clearinghouse was viewed as a positive with around 72 percent of businesses in the UK and 82 percent in the US believing the TMCH will help protect their company’s intellectual property in the new gTLDs.

But when it comes to protecting their trademarks using the TMCH, around a half of businesses did not know if they would, while close to two in five businesses said they would.

The research also asked businesses what gTLD Sunrise periods they would participate in. The most popular here were branded domains (over two-thirds) and internationalised domain name gTLDs (around 60%), while geographic domains attracted a stronger interest in the US (60% for the US, 43% for the UK) and generic gTLDs attracted a stronger interest in the UK (45% v 36%).

When it comes to the size of the company, larger companies were more interested in branded domains (73% for companies with over 10,000 employees compared to 59% for companies with 5-10,000 employees). This was reversed for the smaller companies (74% for smaller companies, 50% for larger).

Respondents were also asked about their views on the benefits of the TMCH. Claims notification and sunrise participation were the most popular, along with “the fact I only have to submit my marks once”. Over half of all respondents in both countries viewing this as important, while flexibility of the length of protection was also viewed as important. The results were similar for the different sized companies questioned.

The Government of Catalonia has withdrawn its application for the new gTLD .Catalonia.The new gTLD was designated exlusively for the government’s use .

The Government of Catalonia has withdrawn its application for .Catalonia,even tough it wasnt’ contested and had no objections.The new gTLD was for the government’s use to promote tourism .

The residents of Catalonia are already served by the .CAT TLD.

Whether you plan to participate in the upcoming ICANN meeting in Durban remotely or in person, you’re invited to a quick reminder of the background and current status of each major policy issue currently under discussion in ICANN.

The ICANN Policy Staff will provide a briefing on Thursday 27 June at 12.00 UTC and Thursday 27 June at 19.00 UTC, summarizing policy issues across the different ICANN Supporting Organizations, namely the Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO), Country Code Names Supporting Organization (ccNSO) and Address Supporting Organization (ASO). Among other topics, updates will be provided on:

Protection of IGO/INGO names in gTLDs PDP

‘Thick’ Whois Policy Development Process

Locking of a Domain Name subject to UDRP Proceedings PDP

10th Anniversary of the ccNSO

IDN ccPDP

Joint DNS Security and Stability Analysis Working Group

Update on RSSAC Reorganization

The two sessions are duplicates, scheduled to accommodate different time zones. Each session, scheduled to run for 90 minutes, will be conducted in English only. The meeting will be run in Adobe Connect with a slide presentation along with a dial-in conference bridge for audio.

Participants will have the opportunity to ask questions at the end of each session. During the course of the webinar, questions may be submitted using the chat function of Adobe Connect. If you are not able to participate in either of the live sessions, the recording of the session will be made available shortly after the meeting. The policy staff is always available to answer any questions that you email to policy-staff@icann.org.

In order to participate, please RSVP via email to the GNSO Secretariat (gnso.secretariat@gnso.icann.org) to receive the call details. Please indicate which call you would like to join, Thursday at 12.00 UTC or Thursday at 19.00 UTC (to convert those times into your local time, see: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedform.html). We will send you an e-mail reminder before the event with log-in and dial-in details. Please DO NOT RSVP to any other ICANN staff members e-mail address.

This announcement was sourced from :

http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-03jun13-en.htm