Do you need a way to manage and register domain names for customers?

3 points by shane_burkhart 12 years ago | 3 comments

I am making a service that allows non-tech businesses to easily create websites, and I find that the hardest part of the process for them is registering and setting up domain names.

Is there any interest in some kind of API to manage domain names that are on the customer's account? So maybe it uses OAuth to authenticate the user and then a token to make calls to the API on behalf of the customer. This would eliminate a significant amount of difficulty on the customer side.

jaredsohn 12 years ago |

Some registrars such as Badger have APIs that should let you do this. (http://badger.github.io/account/).

Edit: They allow creating an account and using it programmatically; not sure about the oauth aspect, though.

shane_burkhart 12 years ago | |

Thanks I'll look into it.

davyjones 12 years ago |

gandi.net offers an API to process domain related stuff. It also offers the ability to manage domains as an authorized user while the owner is some other entity.