Automatic registration

[Richard Peiper]

	We used to do this when we I ran the DNS Servers at UUNET. Since
the files are all text files we created scripts which setup "modifying"
files that we then incorporated during scheduled maintenance windows.
Really the only difficult part is the registration process, and the live
editing of files. If you have a reasonably good UI developer who can
manipulate text files you should be just fine. Just make the UI mirror
what you would do by hand, and you are golden.

	Richard Peiper
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-----Original Message-----
From: bind-users-bounce at isc.org [mailto:bind-users-bounce at isc.org] On
Behalf Of Kevin Darcy
Sent: Friday, September 24, 2004 2:31 PM
To: bind-users at isc.org
Subject: Re: Automatic registration

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=20
"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"=20
process in place, that your customers can use directly.

I suppose you could add some value by integrating the *registration*=20
function with a domain setup function, assuming that you're going to be=20
doing the DNS hosting for the domains in question. Unfortunately, there=20
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=20
cobbled together their own solutions using scripts, ssh/scp, rsync and=20
so forth. Search in the archives of this list under "automatic slave=20
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.
>
>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,
>
>Hisham =20
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