Major Sites To Join ‘World IPv6 Day’

netbuzz writes "Facebook, Google, and Yahoo are among the major sites on board with what the Internet Society is dubbing 'World IPv6 Day,' a collective trial scheduled for June 8. 'It's an exciting opportunity to take IPv6 for a test flight and try it on for a full 24 hours,' says Leslie Daigle, the Internet Society's Chief Internet Technology Officer. 'Hopefully, we will see positive results from this trial so we will see more IPv6 sooner rather than later.'"

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Heise.de did it first...

[Anonymous Coward]

The operator of one of the biggest German web sites, the Heise publishing house, held its own IPv6 day on the 16th of September 2010. Their domains got AAAA records in addition to the IPv4 A records and the web servers responded to IPv4 and IPv6. Long story short: The test produced much fewer problems than expected and two weeks after the test, Heise.de enabled IPv6 permanently. The story is here (in German).

Re:A site seems to be missing from the participant

[SlothDead]

You mean the one that has no Unicode support?

Re:How do I get to their sites using IPv6?

[Bob_Sheep]

Use a tunnel broker service. There are at least 2 free tunnel brokers, SixXs and Hurricane Electric