Instant6 — The Details
Professional Instant6 vs No-Frills
Professional Instant6 provides everything you need to make your IPv4 content visible to IPv6 users:- Immediate global IPv6 visibility for your IPv4-only website - a unique, exclusive IPv6 address for your IPv4 website, without changes to software, hardware or service provider.
- Delivery of email from site visitors using IPv6: IPv6-only users interested in your site's content or products can send follow-up email to your IPv4-only mailbox.
- Full website statistics on IPv6 activity: track website visitors using IPv6, with daily, weekly, monthly and annual hits, bandwidth, origin, search keywords used, and page errors.
- DNS information for your Internet Service Provider: they will need to link your new IPv6 address to your website's name in their Domain Name System.
- Professional Service Level Agreement.
No-Frills Instant6 provides everything you need to make your IPv4 content visible to IPv6 users, but does not provide email, statistics facilities or SLAs.
Setting Up Instant6
- Choose Professional Instant6 or No-Frills Instant6 on the Subscribe form.
- Enter the domain name of your existing IPv4 web site.
- Enter your email address - we need this to send you your new IPv6 address.
- Professional Instant6 only: pay a small annual fee via the secure PayMate facility.
- No-Frills Instant6 only: enter further required details in the form.
How do I know my website is really IPv6-enabled?
Try a Looking Glass to trace the route from an overseas site to your website's IPv6 address: select a site, click Traceroute, put your new IPv6 address in the IP field, click Probe, and wait a few seconds for it to complete. This shows that your website is reachable via IPv6 over the global Internet.
I want to see IPv6 for myself...
Easy! First set up a FREE Try6 IPv6 tunnel - it takes only a few minutes, and will give your computer IPv6 access to anywhere in the world. Once this tunnel is working, simply put http://[your:new:ipv6:address] into your web browser (including the [ ]) and you'll see your website via IPv6.
I want to type www.bertsflowers.com, not a bunch of numbers...
For this you'll need to get your new IPv6 address linked to your existing domain name - just ask your own ISP/Hosting Service to add a new AAAA record to their DNS zone file for your website. (We'll give you all the details in your Instant6 welcome email.)Find out more about this and other topics in the FAQ, or email us.