Re: SA domain name service launched

On Thu, 2011-02-17 at 13:37 +0200, Marko Jakovljevic wrote:
> I don't really see how this is newsworthy at all. It's just a html 
> template for the submission of the information. Probably a simple PHP 
> replace script behind it. Something we use on our side as well to 
> automate the Co.Za registration.

I did this about eight years ago at http://coza.posix.co.za
One can fill in the form - etc, including adding your own Nameservers,
which are cross checked to satisfy the COZA requirements.

> In my opinion a proper automation would be:
> 
> A) Sign up with customer details (create an account) - This would be 
> used as the registrant information
> B) Select host provider or choose free automated parking (something like 
> sedo or what godaddy do)
> C) Pay by Credit Card or Paypal

Totally agree. Posix has offered free parking at http://vweb.co.za for
over a year (and its accessible via IPv6!)

I'll bet that many ISPs do pretty much the same thing.

I guess the most original thing done this time is getting publicity.
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