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CloudFlare Issues the Global IPv6 Challenge: Join the Modern Web
May 2012 by Marc Jacob
CloudFlare, the web performance and security company, is challenging every website online to join the modern web and support IPv6 before June 6, 2012, World IPv6 Day. In order to help meet this challenge, CloudFlare will enable IPv6 support for all its hundreds of thousands of customers ahead of the deadline via its Automatic IPv6 Gateway.
CloudFlare offers its Automatic IPv6 Gateway for free to any websites. The Automatic IPv6 Gateway, like the rest of CloudFlare’s services, is provisioned via a simple change to a website’s DNS settings. Unlike other solutions, CloudFlare’s Automatic IPv6 Gateway does not require any hardware, software, or other infrastructure changes.
More than 15,000 websites have already used CloudFlare’s Automatic IPv6 Gateway to join the modern web. According to a study by HackerTarget, this makes CloudFlare the fourth largest provider of connectivity to the IPv6 web. Over the next week, the company will enable the Automatic IPv6 Gateway for all of its hundreds of thousands of websites, more than doubling the total size of the IPv6 web before the challenge’s June 6 deadline.
CloudFlare today powers hundreds of thousands of websites ranging from individual blogs to Fortune 500 companies to national governments. Every month, CloudFlare sees more than 45 billion page views and makes the web faster, safer and better for more than 450 million people worldwide.
