OpenDNS CEO David Ulevitch says he is launching the IPv6 service now to help website operators and networking firms prepare for , a 24-hour test of IPv6 that is scheduled for June 8. Sponsored by the Internet Society, World IPv6 Day has attracted , including some of the Internet's leading content providers, such as Google, Yahoo and Facebook.

"World IPv6 Day ... is all about getting organizations to make their resources available over IPv6," Ulevitch says. "It's a flag day. It's a point that you can use to convince your boss that IPv6 is worthwhile. ... It's not really for the end users; it's really for the network administrators, the IT guys, to figure out that it's not that hard to do IPv6."

OpenDNS says it will participate in World IPv6 Day by having all of its Web sites support IPv6 by default on June 8.

BACKGROUND:

OpenDNS to offer a free DNS recursive service that supports IPv6. Recursive DNS services allow Internet users to find websites by typing in their domain names and pulling up the corresponding IP numbers. In contrast, authoritative DNS services allow website operators to publish their domain names and corresponding IP addresses to Internet users.