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Posted by Jerry Stuckle on April 19, 2008, 7:36 am
Please log in for more thread options Dave wrote:
> John Dalberg wrote:
>> I am a small web host. When someone orders a website from me and needs to
>> register a domain name, I want to do it programatically through a script.
>>
>> Are there any registrars which make this available?
>> I am not looking to be a reseller and will not bulk register. Just one
>> at a
>> time and maybe a handful a day.
>
>
> I don't think you'll be able to find what you're looking for.
> Either you will register the domains in your own name. Some of the
> registrars that cater to high volume customers may have the tools you
> need, but you say that you won't be doing enough registrations to
> interest them.
>
True. I don't know of any low volume registrars with the necessary
API's. I suppose you could do something with cURL, though.
> Or if you had planned on registering the domains in your customer's
> name, you would essentially be asking the registrar to enter intoa a
> third party contract (Terms of Service, UDRP, etc.). Plus you'd have to
> have to get your customer to pay for the domain somehow. You can't
> exactly transmit their credit card info to the registrar. You would
> surely be in violation of your Merchant Account/Payment processor rules
> if you did that. Offline payment wouldn't exactly be effective for an
> automated system.
>
Not necessarily. In the U.S., you can act as an agent for the customer
and this not be a third-party arrangement. In effect, you are just
acting as a relay for the information.
And it's is perfectly legal for you to send their credit card to the
registrar; it's done all the time. And your merchant account/payment
processor would not be involved in this transaction, so unless their
agreement specifically forbids you from doing this (which would be a
violation of Federal Trade Commission rules, at least in the U.S.), they
can do nothing. Even if it were a legal clause, about the worst they
could do is cancel your contract.
> Don't say that you'd pay for the domains with your own money, that would
> make you a reseller.
>
And there isn't anything wrong with this, either. There are a lot of
hosting companies who do just that.
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