World IPv6 Day: Most-watched Tech Event Since Y2K

alphadogg wrote in with a fairly extreme bit of hyperbole saying "The nation's largest telecom carriers, content providers, hardware suppliers and software vendors will be on the edge of their seats today for World IPv6 Day, which is the most-anticipated 24 hours the tech industry has seen since fears of the Y2K bug dominated New Year's Eve in 1999. More than 400 organizations are participating in World IPv6 Day, a large-scale experiment aimed at identifying problems associated with IPv6, an upgrade to the Internet's main communications protocol, IPv4. Sponsored by the Internet Society, World IPv6 Day runs from 8 p.m. EST Tuesday until 7:59 p.m. EST Wednesday. The IT departments in the participating organizations have spent the last five months preparing their websites for an anticipated rise in IPv6-based traffic, more tech support calls and possible hacking attacks prompted by this largest-ever trial of IPv6."

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Guess who's not taking part?

[squiggleslash]

Big names like Google are:

$ host www.google.com
www.google.com is an alias for www.l.google.com.
www.l.google.com has address 74.125.45.147
www.l.google.com has address 74.125.45.104
www.l.google.com has address 74.125.45.99
www.l.google.com has address 74.125.45.105
www.l.google.com has address 74.125.45.103
www.l.google.com has address 74.125.45.106
www.l.google.com has IPv6 address 2001:4860:800a::6a
$

But one tech website you'd expect to want to dabble in the new and good for some reason isn't:

$ host slashdot.org
slashdot.org has address 216.34.181.45
slashdot.org mail is handled by 10 mx.sourceforge.net.
$

Well, of course!

How to get wide IPV6 adoption in months not years.

[IpSo_]

Have Google modify their page rank algorithm to give any website accessible through IPV6 a slight boost. The power they hold over website revenues is so huge the SEO industry would go nuts over this and you'll see adoption rates explode.