Afnic,the company behind .FR domain name,announced recently that 60 percent of the .FR domain names have an IPv6 address for their DNS servers.This means an increase of 19 points since October 2011,when only 41% had an IPv6 address for their DNS servers.
You can read the announcement after the jump:
"60% of the .fr domain names have an IPv6 address for their DNS servers, according to the AFNIC Industry Report on Domain Names.
The November issue of the AFNIC Domain Name Industry Report has indicated a new key figure. After the correlation between start-ups and the filing of .fr domain names last month, the deployment of IPv6 in the .fr zone is highlighted in this month’s study. Today, 6 out of 10 .fr domain names have an IPv6-compatible DNS server. The figure has risen 19 points since October 2011, when only 41% of .fr domain names had an IPv6 address for their DNS servers.
The analysis carried out in October 2012 shows that nearly 60% of active domain names with the .fr extension have an IPv6 address for their DNS servers. This figure has risen sharply over the past year (only 41% of the names had an IPv6 address for their DNS servers in October 2011). Observation of the change in the percentage over time indicates that it increases in steps, when the main registrars decide to configure their DNS servers with IPv6 (as was successively the case in October 2010, February 2011 and May 2012). The resulting increase over the last four years is impressive: when the first analyses were carried out at the end of 2008, only 1.5% of the domain names in the .fr zone had an IPv6 address for their DNS servers.
As far as email is concerned, 10.5% of .fr domain names with an e-mail server in October 2012 had an IPv6 address for the server, representing a slight increase over the year (+1 point). IPv6 deployment is therefore well behind on email compared with DNS servers. Here again the growth takes place in stages, but the trend has tended to stagnate since November 2010.
Finally, IPv6 penetration remains lowest on web servers: of the .fr domain names associated with a web server, only 3.5% had an IPv6 address for the server. This figure has slightly increased over the past year (it stood at 2.2% in October 2011). Holders of domain names frequently associate the DNS and mail servers handled by their registrars, so that the transition to IPv6 takes place automatically for these services without requiring any specific action by the holder. On the other hand, as far as the web is concerned, the decision to configure a server with IPv6 remains under the control of the holder, resulting in a significantly slower increase in the implementation of the new address.
Hurricane Electric provides items for comparison between extensions about the deployment of IPv6 for web servers. Since the methodology is different from that used by Afnic, these figures are indicative and cannot be directly compared with the previous ones. The German extension .de has the highest rate of IPv6 deployment, with a penetration rate in the zone of 17.1%. This very high figure, however, could be the consequence of the massive presence of .de domains on a major parking platform for domain names for sale available under IPv6. The Slovak extension .sk appears in second position (5.9% of domains), followed by the main generic extensions, with penetration rates ranging between one and two percent (.com, .net, .org, .info, and .biz).
Another study carried out each month by Afnic is designed to analyze the traffic received by authoritative servers for the .fr zone. These servers receive queries concerning .fr domain names from resolver servers, most of which are managed by ISPs. The study shows that on average over the first ten months of 2012, 12.7% of the queries on IP addresses involved IPv6 addresses (growth of one point over the 2011 average). In addition, the transport used to convey these queries between resolvers and authoritative servers was based on IPv6 in 5.7% of the cases, a figure which is also rising (it was 3.3% one year earlier).
It should be recalled that the shortage of IPv4 addresses is now effective: the global stock of addresses managed by ICANN has been exhausted since February 2011, and the regional stock of Europe since September 2012. Only one block of addresses has been kept in Europe but its use is highly rationed: European operators can only be allocated at most one block of 1024 addresses, subject to substantiation, and if they have previously acquired a block of IPv6 addresses. The deployment of IPv6 by the stakeholders should help to overcome these constraints of availability, in addition to other technical improvements introduced by the protocol.
Methodology
The monthly analysis carried out by Afnic consists in extracting a sample of 10% of the .fr zone, and then determining which names in the sample have NS records (name server) and which have MX records (e-mail server). The program then searches for any IPv4 addresses (A records) and IPv6 addresses (AAAA records) associated with these DNS and e-mail servers, and any web server whose domain name is preceded by "www." or "www.ipv6.". Finally, for each of the DNS, email and web servers, the percentage of domain names with an IPv6 address for this service is obtained, including all the domains that have such a service under IPv4 or IPv6.
The study by Hurricane Electric only searches for IPv6 addresses for web servers whose name is strictly identical to the domain name in question, without adding a prefix such as "www." or "www.ipv6.".
For more details check out Afnic.fr
