Operators can now ask for a domain to be added. Separately, the site publishes less than it used to, without changing anything you see.

What's new

• Government and university operators can request monitoring for their domain.
• The button appears on the home page and at the top of every country page.

Security

• The raw data files behind the dashboard are no longer indexed by search engines.
• The working files the build uses are no longer reachable over the web at all.
• Country names are escaped before being shown in map tooltips.

The Address Space tab is now one row per organisation instead of one row per address block, and country pages scroll properly on a phone.

What's new

• A member holding nine address blocks used to fill nine rows. Each organisation now gets a single row showing its first block and how many more it holds.
• Click a row to see every block, with the status and allocation date for each.
• BGP Routing shows four states instead of two: announced at full size, reachable only through smaller parts, not routed, or missing from the dataset.
• The explanation at the top of each tab was rewritten in simpler language.

Fixed

• The map used to capture upward and downward swipes on phones, which left the page stuck. Pinch to zoom and tap a country still work.
• Address blocks were sorted as plain text, which put larger numbers in the wrong place.
• Expanded rows on the Domain tab rendered as a broken table on phones.

Good to know

• Routing percentages are lower than before, and more honest. The old method counted a block as announced if any part of it appeared anywhere in the global routing table, which overstated how much address space is really reachable. Nothing got worse. The measurement got stricter.
• A block we have no information about is now labelled No data rather than being reported as not routed.

Three countries were drawn or shaded incorrectly on the Africa map.

Fixed

• Somalia is drawn in full. The highlight previously left out the north west of the country.
• Morocco no longer includes Western Sahara. The underlying map data merged the two, so the disputed territory was shaded as part of Morocco.
• Sudan's data now appears. Its domains were being monitored, but the country was greyed out on the home page and the map.

Address blocks now show who holds them instead of only a raw IPv6 prefix.

What's new

• You now see the organisation, for example MTN Nigeria or Safaricom Limited.
• Names were found for about 94 percent of allocations. The remainder still show the prefix.

The tab now lists address blocks rather than networks, so you can see which allocations are actually in use.

What's new

• Every block AFRINIC has allocated in the country appears with a clear announced or not routed status.
• Summary counts for total allocations, blocks announced, and blocks not yet routed.

Two new tabs on every country page, and a short explanation at the top of each one.

What's new

• Address Space shows every IPv6 block AFRINIC has allocated or assigned to organisations in the country.
• BGP Routing shows which networks are announcing IPv6 on the global routing table.
• Every tab now opens with a plain explanation of what it shows and where the data comes from.

Country pages were reorganised, and adoption is now broken down per internet provider rather than one national figure.

What's new

• Four tabs per country instead of one long page: Domain, End User Adoption, Address Space and BGP Routing.
• A table showing how each internet provider in the country is doing on IPv6.
• The map can be switched between Infrastructure, IPv6 Capable and IPv6 Preferred, each with its own colour scale.

Until now the site only showed whether government services support IPv6. This shows whether ordinary people in the country can actually use it.

What's new

• Real world IPv6 usage per country, measured by the APNIC Measurement Lab and shown as two dials.
• IPv6 Capable is the share of users who can reach IPv6 destinations.
• IPv6 Preferred is the share who choose IPv6 when both are available.

The monitor keeps itself up to date without anyone having to trigger a scan.

What's new

• Every domain is re-checked on the first of each month, so the figures stay current.

The count labelled DNSSEC was reporting something else entirely, which made several countries look better than they were.

Fixed

• The card was counting domains with IPv6 nameservers, not domains with working DNSSEC. Nigeria showed 4 signed domains when in fact none were signed.
• DNS and DNSSEC are now separate cards, so the two can no longer be confused.

The dashboard was filled with real results for the first time.

What's new

• All 40 domains across 15 countries were scanned and published.

The results table was redesigned to match the layout used by the NIST deployment monitor.

What's new

• Plain words instead of codes. Cells read Operational, In Progress, No Progress, N/A or Unsigned.
• Click any row for the detail behind the colour, including the raw technical codes, the SOA record and the DNSSEC state, with a legend explaining all of it.

The cards at the top of a country page did not match what their numbers actually counted.

Changed

• The cards now show one count per service: DNS, Web and Mail.
• The donut charts were removed. The same information reads better in the table below them.

The dashboard as you know it today, rebuilt from scratch as a fast static site.

What's new

• A home page for the whole continent, with a flag for every country and a search box.
• A page per country, with an interactive map of Africa alongside the data. Click any country on the map to jump to it.
• Summary cards and a colour coded results table covering IPv6 on nameservers, web servers and mail servers, plus DNSSEC.
• Faster and simpler underneath, with no live database behind it, so it loads quickly and has very little that can break.