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The State of the Internet — August 2026

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UK Chapter IPv6 Matrix Project

Author
Olivier Crépin‑Leblond, PhD

Internet Society United Kingdom Chapter
IPv6 Matrix Project

Date of Issue
15 August 2026

Latest Dataset Used
3 August 2026 IPv6Matrix Crawl
(Majestic Million top 1,000,000 domains)

Table of Contents

1. Introduction.

2. Website Host Records — August 2026.

3. Host Reachability (May 2026)

4. Domain-Level IPv6 Deployment (March 2026)

5. Protocol Performance (May 2026)

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Events, News, Project

IPv6 Matrix Project presented at IPv6 Council 2025

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Dr. Tim Chown, one of the original supervisors of the second IPv6 Matrix project at the University of Southampton in 2013/14, presented the latest IPv6 Matrix update at the IPv6 Council Annual General Meeting at the BT Tower in London on Tuesday 18 November 2025.

The short presentation was well received and whilst the event was not streamed publicly, the slide deck used by Dr. Chown is shown below.

IPv6 Matrix for IPv6 Council 18 November 2025Download

The IPv6 Matrix project will continue in 2026, with plans for updating the software to include further analysis of IPv6 traffic as well as potentially other useful data.… Read more ...

Project

The return of the IPv6 Matrix

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View of IPv6 Matrix Web Page

The IPv6 Matrix has been measuring the use of IPv6 in the world’s 1 Million most popular Web Sites since 2010. The project has collected over 500Gb of data relating to the spread of IPv6 worldwide. Its two servers (one crawler and one web server) were now 14 years old when, in 2020, it was time to replace them with modern technology. At the December 2019 IPv6 Council Annual General Meeting, the Chapter received a pledge from UK IPv6 hosting company Mythic Beasts to host the project on virtual machines free of charge, provided the migration was undertaken by the Chapter.… Read more ...

Blog, Training

Hands-on descriptions of implementing IPv6, DNSSEC, HTTPS and other goodies on your Web server

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Posted on

Reproduced with permission, from the original joint Blog posting by Dan Mygind and Karima Saimi on: https://writeit.dk/?p=823 as part of their deliverables for the course “Open Standards Everywhere”. The other deliverable is for the Internet Society UK Chapter Web site to benefit from a increasing in security score as shown below. This has been undertaken

The Internet Society has since 1992 worked to “promote the open development, evolution and use of the Internet for the benefit of all people throughout the world”, as it says in it’s mission.… Read more ...

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Events, News, Project

ISOC England event for World IPv6 Launch on 6 June 2012

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Major Internet service providers (ISPs), home networking equipment manufacturers, and web companies around the world are coming together to permanently enable IPv6 for their products and services by 6 June 2012.

Organized by the Internet Society, and building on the successful one-day World IPv6 Day event held on 8 June 2011, World IPv6 Launch represents a major milestone in the global deployment of IPv6. As the successor to the current Internet Protocol, IPv4, IPv6 is critical to the Internet’s continued growth as a platform for innovation and economic development.… Read more ...

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