Automatic registration

[Kevin Darcy]

Well, if you're talking about registering Internet domains under generic 
TLDs, then only a gTLD registrar can do that. The most you can do is 
"frontend" the process for your customers, but I'm not exactly sure what 
value you can add to that part of the process, since as you pointed out, 
registrars such as register.com already have a somewhat "sophisticated" 
process in place, that your customers can use directly.

I suppose you could add some value by integrating the *registration* 
function with a domain setup function, assuming that you're going to be 
doing the DNS hosting for the domains in question. Unfortunately, there 
is currently no way within BIND or the DNS protocol to automatically get 
a domain set up on masters and/or slaves, although various folks have 
cobbled together their own solutions using scripts, ssh/scp, rsync and 
so forth. Search in the archives of this list under "automatic slave 
configuration" or some search term like that...

- Kevin
Hisham wrote:

>Hi,
>We are a hosting company and we were looking into a way to automate domain
>registration procedure for our customers. So that they can search an
>available domain, add and update their DNS records, all through web
>interface (i.e. something like register.com). Currently we are running BIND
>9.2.3 and the domain registration procedure is done manually.
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>We would like to start small then grow big aiming toward a sophisticated
>system as the one on rigester.com.
>Any feedback from the experts of this list for a kickstart will offcourse be
>highly appreciated :)
>Many thanks in advance,
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>Hisham  
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