TL;DR I once built a joke website asking whether Odido had IPv6 yet. Their lawyers sent me a letter. Now I’m switching to Odido. They still don’t have IPv6. So I’m bringing my own.

The setup, and the irony

In 2024 I registered heeftodidoalipv6.nl — ‘does Odido have IPv6 yet?’ — which answered, in big friendly letters, no. I got a letter from a law firm in Amsterdam for my trouble.

TL;DR (lawyers hired by) Odido is threatening to sue me over a joke.

Introduction and background

At the beginning of 2024, I launched a new website: heeftodidoalipv6.nl (translated: ‘does odido have ipv6 already?’).

The website would display a big fat ‘Nee, Helaas! (No, unfortunatley!)’ together with links to competitor ISPs in the Netherlands for every word in their slogan ‘Het kan ook zo’.

This website was meant as a joke and a message to Odido. It’s time to deploy IPv6. And Odido is not only very, very late; they also haven’t communicated about their roadmap in the slightest. Everyone benefits when the world switches to IPv6, so why is it so hard? Everyone has had enough time.

The internet, it’s a series of tubes! Right? It’s a bunch of magic that you pay a company you don’t respect very much to handle.

Most of you know that what we call ’the internet’ is just a ‘bunch’ of networks connected to eachother. Your ISP has a connection with Google, and that’s how you can search and watch YouTube. It also has a connection to Amazon, Apple, and.. even the network that this website is hosted on.