test-ipv6.com will stay online
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·October 16, 2025lazystar
> After announcing its retirement, many generous people and organizations offered help - thank you! The project is now transitioning to an RIR (Regional Internet Registry), which will continue running the site in the public interest.
well played. threatening to turn it off on christmas was a great move, must've rattled a few cages in the industry lol.
RadiozRadioz
Why would Christmas specifically be a date that would have this effect?
lazystar
No one wants to get paged on christmas and find out that they have a dependency on an external service that was turned off for good.
CaptainOfCoit
A lot of people are on vacation, so impact would most likely be larger compared to a normal day.
andrewaylett
It's an apparently-simple site, with a greater utility than might at first meet the eye. I've found it very useful over the years, and I'm glad Jason has found someone he's happy to hand it over to.
Thanks, Jason, all your efforts are much appreciated.
lloeki
emphasis on "apparently simple"
icanhazip.com looks even simpler on the face of it but there's always shenanigans behind the curtain:
andrewaylett
Yes, I certainly don't intend anyone to read that I think it's actually simple.
fragmede
aw, somebody owns icanha.zip but didn't point it at them.
anyfoo
I use it to test connectivity in general. That it also checks whether my IPv6 stacks works correctly is basically a bonus.
ronsor
I wonder which RIR it is. ARIN or RIPE?
toast0
My guess would be RIPE, it would likely fit with the RIPE Atlas?
But it could also be APNIC, they put out a lot of observational reports too, so it could fit with my perception of them. Maybe LACNIC or AfriNIC wants to do something to raise their profile?
CaptainOfCoit
Author seems to be based in the US, and IP address of the server is Linode/RIPE, so I'm placing a five eurocent bet on RIPE.
laurensr
Meanwhile some ISPs are still not offering IPv6, such as Orange Belgium.
scrlk
Virgin Media in the UK are somewhat infamous for being non-committal about IPv6. There was a thread that ran for 13 years on their forums about it (locked in 2023): https://community.virginmedia.com/discussions/Setup/ipv6-sup...
CaptainOfCoit
According to https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html, I think it's safe to say that the majority of ISPs are not offering IPv6, and some ISPs do offer IPv6.
My ISP publicly supports IPv6, but I've never gotten it to work properly, and none of the technical support I've been able to been forwarded to knows what's wrong either. Colleagues using the same ISP has the same problem, so doesn't seem to be an isolated incident.
I'm sure there are more people out there in the same situation.
ay
Telenet and Proximus do, so if you are in their service area, why not switch ? (Don’t know about Voo, I live in Brussels).
My mobile connectivity comes via Mobile Vikings which are now part of Proximus - also IPv6 there, and I love their excellent service.
tonymet
Or Ziply Residential
bityard
For all of the bullshit that is Comcast and their ongoing mission to fully enshittify every single aspect of last-mile Internet delivery at the expense of consumers and taxpayers, I will say that at least they've had great IPv6 support for well over a decade at this point.
bigstrat2003
Yeah, I'm a Comcast customer and I'm very happy with their IPv6 support. The only things I would want different are a prefix larger than a /60 (say a /56), and the ability to have a permanently assigned prefix on my residential connection (but that's unlikely, I know). As evil as the Comcast business people are, their engineers clearly are trying to do right by customers.
nadermx
The cost of running this vs the benefit must be huge.
Spunkie
> The project is now transitioning to an RIR (Regional Internet Registry)
What does that actually mean in the context of a website like this?
pumplekin
Yes, but they run a bunch of other useful services for internet plumbers too.
This would just be another "general good of the internet" service.
RIPE for example run.
Atlas: A cooperative service for internet reachability and measurements. - https://www.ripe.net/analyse/internet-measurements/ripe-atla...
DNSMON: Monitor the root and TLD's and other key internet domains. Does so from many locations so as to test anycast issues. - https://dnsmon.ripe.net/
RIPEStat / BGplay: Debug and examine internet reachability issues. - https://stat.ripe.net/ - https://stat.ripe.net/bgplay
And volunteer resources to help to run other things, like https://www.as112.net/ that sinks all the PTR lookups for RFC1918 that leaks to the internet, among other things.
tgsovlerkhgsel
That a nonprofit entity whose mission it is to keep the Internet running smoothly decided to provide the resources needed to keep this useful service available.
That doesn't seem too surprising to me and should ensure that the site can be run sustainably without burning out volunteers.
throwmeaway222
Great!
IT4MD
cheering
Thanks!
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