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Why would they?

- IPv6 is basically an abandoned standard. I wouldn't expect them to support gopher either.

- Residential ISP support for ipv6 is spotty, and anyone who does offer ipv6 offers ipv4 as well.

- When it is supported, ipv6 tends to be substantially slower than ipv4 in practice.

- The addresses are a pain to look at and work with.

- You now have twice as many things to fail.

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ipv6 is hardly an abandoned standard, 35% of google users access google over ipv6, and it continues to grow every year.

https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html

IPv6 is also usually faster than ipv4 these days, because the overhead of fragmented ipv4 routing is large. In the past it was slower because of lack of understanding/support for it from larger ISPs, and consequently poor routes, or really suboptimal tunneling setups.

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