Re:IPv6 Traffic Crosses the 50% Mark for the First Time
by bananamogul on Thursday April 16, 2026 @11:48AM
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I've been hearing that those speculators were going to get out of control and the IPv4 price was going to skyrocket for 10+ years.
Yet I can still rent a VPS with IPv4 for $12/year from a wide variety of providers.
Re:IPv6 Traffic Crosses the 50% Mark for the First Time
by RiverCrochet on Thursday April 16, 2026 @11:58AM
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For now, :) Hopefully it continues.
> if IPv6 prevents IPv4 rental prices from going haywire, then it's served a useful purpose.
Competition is good.
Re:IPv6 Traffic Crosses the 50% Mark for the First Time
by Dylan16807 on Thursday April 16, 2026 @03:16PM
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You can, but a significant portion of that money is going toward paying off that IP.
"Skyrocket" is wrong but the market cap of IPv4 addresses is quite high.
Re:IPv6 Traffic Crosses the 50% Mark for the First Time
by realityking on Thursday April 16, 2026 @02:37PM
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The Czech government has announced it’ll stop offering its services via IPv4 in June 2032.
Source https://konecipv4.cz/en/
It's fine. IPv4 and IPv6 can be used at the same time. There's no hurry. Network interfaces support anything as long as both sides agree (nothing stopping you from building your own IPX network over MPLS).
People can move to IPv6 when the IPv4-as-real-estate speculators get out of control, and if IPv6 prevents IPv4 rental prices from going haywire, then it's served a useful purpose.
I saw a news article that said something about India considering moving to IPv6-only? That's going to be interesting if the rest of the world moves to IPv6 and the U.S. doesn't.
> End users shouldn't need to set up NAT64/6to4 tunneling. It should be ISPs doing that to prepare for the transition.
100%