Doesn't netsol charge something crazy like $50/year per for domain services? If that is still the case sounds like ipv6 support for 250k is a drop in the bucket :-). Not sure why any clueful DNS admin would still use netsol though.
On Mar 28, 2012, at 5:55 PM, Joseph Snyder <joseph.sny...@gmail.com> wrote: > I agree, but in a big company it generally would cost at least 10s of > thousands of dollars just for training alone. The time away from the phones > that would have to be covered would exceed that. Let's say you had 8000 phone > staff and they were getting $10/be and training took an hour. That is 80k > coverage expenses alone. For a large company I would expect a project budget > of at least 250k minimal. And probably more if the company exceeds 50,000 > employees. > > Arturo Servin <arturo.ser...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Another reason to not use them. > > Seriusly, if they cannot expend some thousands of dollars (because it > shouldn't be more than that) in "touching code, (hopefully) testing that > code, deploying it, training customer support staff to answer questions, > updating documentation, etc." I cannot take them as a serious provider for my > names.. > > Regards, > .as > > On 28 Mar 2012, at 21:16, John T. Yocum wrote: > >> >> >> On 3/28/2012 12:13 PM, Carlos Martinez-Cagnazzo wrote: >>> I'm not convinced. What you mention is real, but the code they need is >>> little more than a regular expression that can be found on Google and a >>> 20-line script for testing lames. And a couple of weeks of testing, and >>> I think I'm exaggerating. >>> >>> If they don't want to offer support for it, they can just put up some >>> disclaimer. >>> >>> regards, >>> >>> Carlos >>> >>> >>> On 3/28/12 3:55 PM, David Conrad wrote: >>>> On Mar 28, 2012, at 11:47 AM, Carlos Martinez-Cagnazzo wrote: >>>>> I'm not a fan of conspiracy theories, but, c'mon. For a provisioning >>>>> system, an AAAA record is just a fragging string, just like any other >>>>> DNS record. How difficult to support can it be ? >>>> >>>> Of course it is more than a string. It requires touching code, (hopefully) >>>> testing that code, deploying it, training customer support staff to answer >>>> questions, updating documentation, etc. Presumably Netsol did the >>>> cost/benefit analysis and decided the potential increase in revenue >>>> generated by the vast hordes of people demanding IPv6 (or the potential >>>> lost in revenue as the vast hordes transfer away) didn't justify the >>>> expense. Simple business decision. >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> -drc >>>> >>>> >>> >> >> That's assuming their system is sanely or logically designed. It could be a >> total disaster of code, which makes adding such a feature a major pain. >> >> --John > >
