> Let me clarify that I meant "reseller" when I said "registrar" above. I
> see people complaining that its too hard to develop scripts that process
> via the API and that they would prefer e-mail processing. If they can't
> code to the API, I'm not sure how they would expect to be able to code a
> much more complex parser to receive the replies from opensrs.
>
Bill, I haven't seen an OpenSRS reseller site yet which uses a truly
independent submission system. All I've seen so far are somewhat "changed"
OpenSRS clients or simply the original unchanged one. This shows that
programming for the API isn't that easy. I agree that parsing the replies
may be a bit more difficult then chunking a submission down to a given
email template. I assume, however, that an email based system would
encourage many small resellers to at least start with a complete
submission system of their own. It should also be noted that there seem to
be different reseller "models". Most on this list seem to run domain
registration as a wholesale business where they just want to have as low
contact to the domain/buyer as they can. It's obvious that they like
getting provided with a client they don't need to think about and an
automated payment collection system. We have a different concept and I
think many resellers in Europe are like us. We sell Webhosting, not
domains. When domains are registered with us it's almost always attached
to buying a server. We take the domain registration in our own format,
verify it with the client, process it and then send a success/failure to
the (new) client, process the server order etc. The client does not have
any contact to the registrar/registry. They come to us and they get it
from us. Money is collected later (not via credit card). We do not sell a
domain at $15, that doesn't make any sense to us, I could just hand them
out for free.
Kai
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