I get a little confused sometime by who actually holds the candle when it comes to our domain program. We utilize NetEarthOne which who I believe utilizes ResellerClub/DirectI. I make that assumption since when our platform is dead RC's appears to be down as well.

Our company was recently awarded the ability to have native ipv6, it's something we've had in the past at a few providers and overall we haven't seen a real importance of getting ipv6 going.

As we all know alot of companies are squatting on thousands among thousands of ipv4 ip's and it's not good for those invested in the ipv6 industry for those companies to release some of the ipv4 addressing they aren't using.

The ip systems that we have mainly relies on the domain name structure because people aren't going to be visiting http://93.4.2.x to visit websites, this type of surfing would create an even larger blow since it would require an ip for every site hosted.

So the question is, why does DirectI/Reseller club not support ipv6 in 2009? DirectI has a website showing the whos/who in domain registrations but they seem to be behind in doing what appears to be something crucial to the future of the internet.

I have personally been an opponent of all the ipv6 scare tactics because as a small provider we can't just get ipv6, we can only get ipv6 from providers that offer it to us. There are alot of providers today that simply refuse to do it since it's going to take $ to buy the equipment or whatever else is necessary.

So what really is holding up DirectI/RC, it can't be money, it can't be their ability to incorporate it into the platform, there has to be something that's holding it back.

Until DirectI/RC get on board with IPV6 we will be transferring all of our domains out of the program. It's unfortunately not going to hurt them as much as it will NetEarthOne for whom is unfortunately stuck in the middle.

We are told that NE1 is working on a new platform but that does us little good now.

NetEarthOne, ResellerClub and plenty of of other registrars(mostly ccTLDs one) use Logicboxes(LB) platform. Logicboxes was coded by indian devs for directi long time back.

Why LB platform?
Because most registrar don't want to take the headache of developing their own platform.LB is fully complaint with registries around the world.It has everything that a registrar needs for their operations. a total solution hence its old platform is still in operation.

Afaik, NetEarthOne is a completely different registrar from Directi. they don't have anything in common apart of using the same platform.


regarding the growth of IPv6. what really holding up IPv6 is ISPs and other network providers. they are not really ready to change their network infrastructure. Software support for IPv6 has arrived.Vista & Linux has IPv6 support out-of-box.

What really needed is the complete overhaul of network equipment. which i don't see happening anytime soon before 2012

I agree, if you look up some of the root servers, even those, last I checked were not all IPv6 compliant. Its going to take awhile to get to IPv6 in my opinion. We have to get people to sto pusing Windows 2000 for servers and lots of network upgrades and the previous posted mentioned.

Just to confirm to all, and as we had stated before about our openness, we use the LogicBoxes platform, made by DI who also own RC and Answerable amongst a few.

Yes we are in the middle of creating a new platform, and as stated to our resellers all efforts are on that.
As our resellers already know the offerings between us and RC are identical, this is because of the platform. For instance, we use the PDR credentials for .ORG and .TEL as it was too expensive (not commercially viable) to use our credentials on the LB platform because of the fees associated with adding them by LB.

I can say that we will support IPv6 for nameservers in our platform, as it isn’t much work when sorting that side of things out, it would be a shame to see HostKitty leave us, but, at the end of the day, they need to do like any reseller what is best for them, and we wish them every success.

Chris

It will be at least another 5+ years before IPv6 becomes common.

The problem is not software (mostly). The problem is the hundreds of millions of dollars in hardware that is not IPv6 compatible.. and really does not need to be replaced yet.

In other words, if you are the owner of a few hundred routers, and there is no reason to replace them EXCEPT that they are not IPv6 compatible... what do you think you would do?

Exactly. You would leave them in place and NOT spend the millions of $$ to replace fully functional hardware.

As soon as these old routers start having hardware failures and need to be replaced.. then IPv6 will become more common.

It will be at least another 5+ years before IPv6 becomes common.

The problem is not software (mostly). The problem is the hundreds of millions of dollars in hardware that is not IPv6 compatible.. and really does not need to be replaced yet.

In other words, if you are the owner of a few hundred routers, and there is no reason to replace them EXCEPT that they are not IPv6 compatible... what do you think you would do?

Exactly. You would leave them in place and NOT spend the millions of $$ to replace fully functional hardware.

As soon as these old routers start having hardware failures and need to be replaced.. then IPv6 will become more common.
True!
But as you know world is running of IP address space, sooner or later routers have to be updated. the more the delay, the more problem it would cause