inbox@fpgatools.com wrote:
> Thanks for the link!
>
> My "beef" is with Tucows in that such descrenancies are not
> documented. Again, effectively, Tucows only supports a single
> configuration in a specific environment.
> Why does enom provide such a "lite" and simple API? Answer: API is OS
> and Language Agnostic / enom is trying to avoid the limitations of
> complex API's like Tucows ......
>
>
> Bottom line is that, according the the most recent State Of The Domain
> report (http://www.SOTD.info) enom gained 230,000 registrations (+0.6
> market share) in Q4 2002 and GoDaddy gained 290,000 (+0.8 market
> share), while Tucows only gained 87,000 (-0.01 market share - a
> *LOSS*) ..... Sooner or later Tucows *WILL* provide an API that
> directly supports Windows Developement environment (I just wish it was
> sooner). Sooner or later Tucows will start catering to people like
> myself who personally own and administrate large blocks of domain names.
Thinking of a lightweight API, I am in favour of SOAP over HTTPS. Or
something standard, let's not reinvent the wheel! SOAP runs on Java,
Perl, PHP, C (raise your hand if it doesn't run on your platform :-)),
etc.. Tucows uses XML anyway, the XML DTD-s are already there...
Names4ever uses something like this (not SOAP, but something like a
simple XML API). And why use a somewhat custom encryption with all the
trouble if you have SSL? Ok, SSL is a bit slow on handhelds, but that is
a marginal segment of the domain registration market anyway :-))
- Cs.
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