Re: Domain check in draft-obispo-epp-idn-00.txt

On 06/01/12 07:21, Patrik Fältström wrote:

> If registries did harmonize more, it would make registrar work easier.

After all, we're all in the business of selling domains, and it's not as
if registries are in competition with one another. The faster I as a
software engineer employed by a registrar can get integrated with you
as a registry, the better for us both, and the more profit for all!

> And more harmonization would also because the translation engines in the
> registrars act more similar which implies the users would get more similar
> user interface when comparing registrars.

Not to mention a smoother experience for all. But unfortunately politics
comes into things and blinds everybody to what's to their mutual advantage.

> Today, having similar user interfaces for for example .EU, .COM, .ORG and
> .SE is not easy.

EURid are, due to gradual registrar pressure, moving towards a less 'special'
variation of EPP. That's a positive development.

As far as .com goes (and all the VeriSign-managed zones too), I think the best
thing they could do for registrars is scrap their NameStore extension. I can't
fathom the train of thought that made their developers think that'd be a good
idea. It's up there with running .tv and .cc (thin) on the same EPP server as
.jobs (thick), which messes up any chance clients have of autodetecting if the
registry is thick or thin.

.se is on my (long) list of ccTLDs to interface with, so I can't remember how
much of a pain that's going to be.

> The TLDs are so completely different in the epp
> implementation that they are...hmm...different.

The worst of it is the pride some registry operators have in how different
they are. I've read stuff by non-EPP ccTLDs registrars who practically boast
about how they have their own interface and how EPP couldn't possibly suit
their use cases.

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