diff --git a/docker/docker_client.go b/docker/docker_client.go
index 97d97fed5f..72be506d5f 100644
--- a/docker/docker_client.go
+++ b/docker/docker_client.go
@@ -934,37 +934,6 @@ func (c *dockerClient) detectPropertiesHelper(ctx context.Context) error {
 	if err != nil && c.tlsClientConfig.InsecureSkipVerify {
 		err = ping("http")
 	}
-	if err != nil {
-		err = fmt.Errorf("pinging container registry %s: %w", c.registry, err)
-		if c.sys != nil && c.sys.DockerDisableV1Ping {
-			return err
-		}
-		// best effort to understand if we're talking to a V1 registry
-		pingV1 := func(scheme string) bool {
-			pingURL, err := url.Parse(fmt.Sprintf(resolvedPingV1URL, scheme, c.registry))
-			if err != nil {
-				return false
-			}
-			resp, err := c.makeRequestToResolvedURL(ctx, http.MethodGet, pingURL, nil, nil, -1, noAuth, nil)
-			if err != nil {
-				logrus.Debugf("Ping %s err %s (%#v)", pingURL.Redacted(), err.Error(), err)
-				return false
-			}
-			defer resp.Body.Close()
-			logrus.Debugf("Ping %s status %d", pingURL.Redacted(), resp.StatusCode)
-			if resp.StatusCode != http.StatusOK && resp.StatusCode != http.StatusUnauthorized {
-				return false
-			}
-			return true
-		}
-		isV1 := pingV1("https")
-		if !isV1 && c.tlsClientConfig.InsecureSkipVerify {
-			isV1 = pingV1("http")
-		}
-		if isV1 {
-			err = ErrV1NotSupported
-		}
-	}
 	return err
 }
 
diff --git a/docker/errors.go b/docker/errors.go
index 4392f9d182..b813f0005e 100644
--- a/docker/errors.go
+++ b/docker/errors.go
@@ -10,9 +10,6 @@ import (
 )
 
 var (
-	// ErrV1NotSupported is returned when we're trying to talk to a
-	// docker V1 registry.
-	ErrV1NotSupported = errors.New("can't talk to a V1 container registry")
 	// ErrTooManyRequests is returned when the status code returned is 429
 	ErrTooManyRequests = errors.New("too many requests to registry")
 )
diff --git a/types/types.go b/types/types.go
index 7d6097346a..287ef1663c 100644
--- a/types/types.go
+++ b/types/types.go
@@ -640,10 +640,6 @@ type SystemContext struct {
 	DockerBearerRegistryToken string
 	// if not "", an User-Agent header is added to each request when contacting a registry.
 	DockerRegistryUserAgent string
-	// if true, a V1 ping attempt isn't done to give users a better error. Default is false.
-	// Note that this field is used mainly to integrate containers/image into projectatomic/docker
-	// in order to not break any existing docker's integration tests.
-	DockerDisableV1Ping bool
 	// If true, dockerImageDestination.SupportedManifestMIMETypes will omit the Schema1 media types from the supported list
 	DockerDisableDestSchema1MIMETypes bool
 	// If true, the physical pull source of docker transport images logged as info level