Quad-A records in Network Solutions ?

Thu Mar 29 16:11:29 UTC 2012

No, not $50, NetSol charges me in the range of $9.75 to $9.99 per year per
domain name.

Not defending NetSol, just clarity for the purposes of the archives.

Who knows, maybe I get those rates because I mention their competitor
GoDaddy   :-) 

Tony Patti
CIO
S. Walter Packaging Corp.

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Gallagher [mailto:mike at txih.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2012 8:19 PM
To: Joseph Snyder
Cc: nanog at nanog.org; Arturo Servin
Subject: Re: Quad-A records in Network Solutions ?

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.snyder at 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.servin at 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
> 
> 