The Global Domain Market in 2011: Key Events. IPv6 and DNSSEC

In 2011, the transition to the new Internet protocol IPv6. On the pages of our publication you can read materials about what isIPv6 And DNSSEC, and also read ten interesting facts about the protocolIPv6.

The reason for the introduction of IPv6 was the exhaustion of the domain address space that existed in the IPv4 protocol.

February 3, 2011, went down in the history of the global IT industry as the day the end began. On this day, according to the RIPE-436 document, the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA)conveyedfor distribution by regional internet registries (RIRs) to consumers of the last five blocks of IP addresses /8.

There is an active process going on in UkrainePreparationThe transition to the new IPv6 protocol. World IPv6 Day was held on June 8, 2011. On this day, all major providers, including Ukrainian companies, will provide internet access simultaneously over both IPv4 and IPv6 protocols for 24 hours. The main goal of World IPv6 Day is to test the global transition to the new internet protocol to identify flaws and errors in various devices and operating systems.

Participants of World IPv6 Day included Google, Facebook, Yahoo!, Akamai, Limelight Networks, Cisco, Meebo, Genius, W3C, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, NYI NET, Host Europe, Xiphiastec, Tom’s Hardware, and many others.

In early Decembertook placeDNSSEC key generation ceremony for the .UA domain

Details on using DNSSEC can be found ininterview.UA domain administrator Dmitry Kokhmanyuk.

DNSSEC support is present in such domain zones as.SU,.DE,.UK and .ME.UK,.CO