Re: Quad-A records in Network Solutions ?

[bmanning () vacation karoshi com]

On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 11:55:35AM -0700, 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

        once, years ago, Netsol -did- have a path for injecting AAAA records. It was prototype
code with the engineering team.  I had records registered with them.  Have since sold the domains
and they moved to other registries.   But they did support it for a while.


/bill