CIRA helpfully no longer displays the registrant number for domains in
APPRVL status (regardless of legal type) in their new Whois. This
information is necessary when we need to register multiple .ca domains to
a single newly-created (not yet completed) CIRA profile, so that the
customer doesn't end up with a separate CIRA profile for each domain.
The old CIRA Whois used to show the registrant number that was set aside
for the new registrant.
Since this situation came up tonight for the first time since the new
Whois was launched, I did some experimenting with the OpenSRS API and
found that get_order_info returns the registrant number (the field name is
'cira_profile').
Tucows, since you have the registrant number, it would be immensely
helpful if you could display it somewhere in the order info in the RWI.
Add a line for it, put it in the order notes, or whatever, so long as we
can get it easily.
<rant> Overall, I like the new CIRA Whois format, but I'm highly bugged by
a field label change they've made: what used to be "Date-Modified" is now
"Name servers last changed", which is highly misleading to customers.
This date actually updates when *any* change is made to the domain, not
just name servers. It's a good idea to have a "Name servers last changed"
field (in addition to a more general "Date-Modified"), as long as it
actually shows what it claims to show. Tucows, can you prod CIRA into
fixing this? </rant>
Alex
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