Good point *sheepish grin* Charles Daminato TUCOWS Product Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 22 Nov 2001, Genie Livingstone wrote: > > Friday, February 22, 2002 5:53 PM Charles Daminato wrote > > > Understood. > > > > Note that adding nameservers to the registry(ies) is realtime, and you > > don't have to wait for the update. > > > > Chuck, I think ST ment the customer could not change name servers because he > had to wait for his RSP to add name server into registry so he missed the > update to switch hosts and make his site live. ST makes a lot of sense, I > think we would all benefit if nameservers could be added across Registries. > Cheers > Genie > > > On Fri, 22 Feb 2002, ST wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > >Additionally, since not all OpenSRS resellers are enabled on all > > > >suppliers, we'd have to only try to add to registries for which you're > > > >signed up for, which is extra logic. > > > > > > Would this really matter? My logic was basically "If I'm going to add > this > > > host name to .info, I might as well add it to .biz and even .com, if > it's a > > > ccTLD, so that if someone else needs to use this hostname for a .biz > domain, > > > they won't get an error." It's really more of a public service. It may > > > benifit me in the future, or it might benifit another RSP or a customer > of > > > another registrar. Or maybe it will benifit no one. > > > > > > I finally posted my suggestion to the list yesterday after adding a > ccTLD to > > > .info for a customer. Ironically, I received the following from the > customer > > > today: > > > > > > <snip> > > > Thank you. That helped. > > > > > > But - now I have the same(?) problem with .info. I have tried to change > > > nameservers for "$domain.info" and "$domain.info". > > > > > > Could you please help with that problem too? > > > </snip> > > > > > > My immediate thoughts about this were that I should have just added the > > > hostname to .info yesterday, which would have saved myself a minute or > two, > > > and the customer about a half a day of waiting, since he missed the root > > > update. And knowing that, I can't help but think that I should go ahead > and > > > add hostnames to both .info and .biz in the future. I actually feel > kinda > > > dumb that I didn't do it the first time. Which brings me right back to > the > > > idea that the system should do this automatically. > > > > > > ST > > > > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Charles Daminato > > > Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2002 4:42 PM > > > To: ST > > > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Subject: Re: Registry Nameservers > > > > > > > > > There are some difficulties with this. > > > > > > If we make it add to "all" registries, as more and more registries are > > > added the more expensive and time consuming (from a system POV) this > would > > > be. When a supplier is slow beyond measure (as happens from time to > > > time), this could potentially fail and the command becomes useless (you > > > can't add to any if it gets stuck up on one and times out). > > > > > > A good suggestion though; we may be able to figure something out... > > > > > > As for adding it to manage, the logic here is tricky. If we check > before > > > adding the nameserver, it's an extra command for each update. If we try > > > to add it due to error, it's more time processing. Again, if the > registry > > > is slow, the update becomes impossible and the feature is useless. > > > > > > Additionally, since not all OpenSRS resellers are enabled on all > > > suppliers, we'd have to only try to add to registries for which you're > > > signed up for, which is extra logic. > > > > > > After reading through, I might just be making excuses. I will take this > > > back for some thought and discussion internally to see what we can't > do... > > > > > > The best thing would be for the registries to remove this unneeded > > > restriction! > > > > > > Charles Daminato > > > TUCOWS Product Manager > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, ST wrote: > > > > > > > Perhaps the "Registry Nameservers" tool in the RWI should be modified > so > > > > that it attempts to add the hostname to all the registries. It > strikes me > > > > that if a hostname such as ns1.blah.se needs to be added to the .info > > > > registry, it may also need to be added to the .biz and .com > registries. It > > > > wouldn't hurt to have it try, so that it can save someone the trouble > of > > > > possibly having to add it later. > > > > > > > > You could just replace the link for Registry Nameservers with a one > field > > > > form that would attempt to add the hostname to all registries. > > > > > > > > Ideally, it would be great if manage.cgi could detect that a hostname > > > needed > > > > to be added, then add it to the appopriate registries, and then > finally > > > > update the domain that the user it trying to update, instead of giving > > > them > > > > an error message. > > > > > > > > ST > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
