As of October 2013, 61.3 percent of all .fr domain names had at least one server that was IPv6 compatible, significantly up from the 2011 figure of 40.9 percent but only marginally up on the 2012 figure of 59.6 percent.
The figures come from this monthâs AFNIC Domain Name Industry Report that focuses on IPv6 deployment. The report also shows that web servers recorded the highest growth (+ 3 points), but with an overall deployment of 7.4 percent they are still behind mail servers, with 10.75 percent having deployed IPv6.
A study of the change in this percentage over time has shown that the increase occurs in steps. When the main hosts decide to configure their DNS servers with IPv6 (as was the case in October 2010, February 2011 and May 2012) there are significant increases. The relative stagnation of the phenomenon suggests that no major host integrated IPv6 in its services in 2012/2013, unlike some small- to medium-scale hosts (hence the increase in the number of IPv6 web servers).
For more information, see AFNICâs November Domain Name Industry Report here.