bulk_register action?

From: Derek Glidden (dglidden@illusionary.com)
Date: Mon Oct 02 2000 - 14:41:24 EDT


Is there an equivalent action to "bulk_transfer" only for new
registrations? (i.e. "bulk_register") I'd like to send a single
request with a list of domains to register against a particular profile
that will be processed immediately.

It looks like "sw_register" would almost work, but we need the action to
be processed without someone having to go click stuff on the web
interface manually, and I guess the people here actually doing the
registration stuff don't want to change the "process immediate" settings
that we have now.

Ideally, I'd love to be able to send a command that simply looks like:

$request = {
        action => "bulk_register",
        attributes => {
                domain_list => @domain_list,
                 reg_username => $reg_username,
                reg_password => $reg_password,
                reg_domain => $reg_domain
        }
}

without having to explicitly pass all the other contact/nameserver info
along with the request.

Our customer base is not "Joe Average wants to register a domain" but
rather companies who will be registering large numbers of domains all
under the same profile with all the same contact and nameserver
information, so a feature like this would be great for us.

Additions to the protocol like this would make my life much easier (not
that it's so tough to issue a "get" action with "All_domain" as the type
and then just pull the contact_list and nameserver_list from the
response and plug it back into the new request, but if I could skip that
step, it would be even better.) and ultimately make registration for our
clients work better since I wouldn't have to do something like:
"foreach($domain) { register($domain) }". When network latency is high,
it can take several minutes to register a few domains. If I could pass
a whole list of domains all at once with just one request, that would be
ideal.

If there's something like this already, please point it out since I
don't see anything like it in either the documentation or the existing
CGI!

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