Vlad,
Thanks for the explaination! If it doesnt take a long time to make the
'renew' and 'transfer' reg_types work correctly, Id love to see that. If the
only thing that has to be dealt with on the client side as far as error
checking goes is making sure that the number of years is valid for whatever
domain it is, thats perfectly acceptable. If you can keep me/us up to date
when and if this change is incorporated, thatd be fantastic.
Thanks!
-Matt
----- Original Message -----
From: "Vladimir Jebelev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Matt Prigge" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Charles Daminato" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2001 6:31 PM
Subject: Re: get_price API Question
> Hi Matt,
>
> On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Matt Prigge wrote:
>
> > Is there any reason (aside from time/money/etc) that it couldnt be
modified
> > to work for all domains? It seems like this could be very useful (which
> is
> > the reason I initially asked about it). From what Ive seen it is
_fairly_
> > accurate. It just doesnt seem to take into account the initial
registration
> > period requirements. Maybe theres more wrong with it than I've seen
though.
> >
>
> You are right, officially it's only supposed to work with the .tv domains
> and only for the initial price, as that was the initial business
> requirement. It was implemented to support all domains though as it seemed
> that this could be useful for resellers - as a not documented feature. One
> known incostistency is that it may return you a valid price for something
> that is not actually supported by OpenSRS at this time, for example .tv
> renewals or .uk domain for 1 year. The other is that if a domain is taken,
> if will not give you a price back - even though you specified 'transfer'
> or 'renewal' as reg_type - this is why reg_type parameter was never
> published. We can easily fix the latter it as long as there is a demand
> for this feature.
>
> The command syntax is:
> { action => 'get_price',
> object => 'domain',
> attributes => {
> domain => 'domain.com',
> [ period => 3, ]
> [ reg_type => 'renewal' ]
> }
>
> If not specified, period defaults to 1 year, reg_type defaults to 'new'
> (could also be 'transfer' or 'renewal').
>
>
> Vlad Jebelev
> OpenSRS developer
>
