Graeme, You are free to use any values (within the syntax, of course) for the OpenSRS username/password, and keep your customers coming to you site. You will, of course, need to maintain a local database of values, so you system can login "as" the user. Whether you want to maintain the same profile (not recommended for security reasons - one person gets that profile info, they can access all the domains within it) or seperate profiles for each domain (you may want to group domains owned by the same person in the same profile) is up to you.
OpenSRS never sends out the username/password on behalf of the reseller, for just this reason. Many resellers employ this method. The only possible exception is under extenuating circumstances regarding disputes and compliance issues, and extensive correspondence would be attempted with the reseller before this ever happened. Cheers :) Charles Daminato TUCOWS Product Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, UK Internet Sites wrote: > Hi, > > My company is about to start selling domain names though Open SRS. At the moment we >are > just Nominet members and of course just sell .uk domain names. > > Anyway we have our own customer Control Panel, which allows customers to manage all >there > domain names under one account, and setup extra free services (web/email forwarding >etc). > What we are looking at doing this keeping this, and simply when someone orders a >Open SRS > domain name, our scripts just connect to opensrs and exchange the commands. > > So the question is, when you register a domain name with Open SRS, it asks for a > username/password for the domain name. Now as our customers already have an account >with > us, and we don't want them managing there domain name from anywhere at all but >though our > control panel - what do we use as the username/password to register the domain name >with > Open SRS? > > Do we just make one up (and never give it to the customer), or maybe attach all the >domain > names to our own Open SRS account? > > Also as our customers are going to be admin contacts for there domain names, would >they be > able to for example contact Open SRS support and ask for there username/password, or >even > get the password sent to them some how? > > Thanks for any help you can give, > > Graeme Sandwell > UK Internet Sites Limited. > http://www.ukinternetsites.com/ > > >
