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Happy World IPv6 Day!

In case you’ve missed it, it’s World IPv6 Day. A day to remind people that they should be prepared for the future of the Internet.

TorrentFreak has been the proud owner of an IPv6 address for quite a while, which earned us a spot (#33) in the hall of fame. But today the big boys including Google and Facebook are (finally) giving it a 24 hour test run.

In the torrent world there are not that many sites with an IPv6 address, but we learned that EZTV.it added one yesterday, in celebration of World IPv6 day.

The Pirate Bay is also working on IPv6 support, but they failed to make today’s deadline due to network issues. If you want to check if your browser can handle IPv6 connections, you can do the test here.

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