The profile is to allow the registrant to manage their domain name. Not all resellers back-end OpenSRS; some don't even use the client code and direct their clients to manage their domains at https://manage.opensrs.net/
:) Charles Daminato OpenSRS Product Manager Tucows Inc. - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -----Original Message----- > From: Barry A Byrne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: January 31, 2002 4:35 AM > To: Charles Daminato > Cc: UK Internet Sites; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Back-ending Opensrs > > > In the light of this clarification, what is the rationale for having an > end-user > profile anyway? > If we resellers keep the end-user profiles secret, we might just as well > have > a reseller profile. > > Transfers between resellers currently require the end-user profile to be > transferred > according to the new reseller's policy. > (But could also be achieved by a change of reseller profile) > > Transfers out of OpenSRS make the profile redundant. > > > Barry A Byrne > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Charles Daminato" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Barry A Byrne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: "UK Internet Sites" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 1:19 PM > Subject: Re: Back-ending Opensrs > > > > And it will be up to the sponsoring reseller to grant that or > > not; assuming they've got just cause for withholding the OpenSRS info (I > > mean, if you're granted the same access priveledges as you would be via > > OpenSRS, then... what does it matter?) > > > > Some resellers like to stay as invisible as possible to the OpenSRS > > process. > > > > Charles Daminato > > TUCOWS Product Manager > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Barry A Byrne wrote: > > > > > End-users will need to know their usernames and passwords if they ever > > > (shock! horror!) > > > want to deal directly with OpenSRS. > > > > > > Barry A Byrne > > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: "Charles Daminato" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > To: "UK Internet Sites" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 12:19 AM > > > Subject: Re: Back-ending Opensrs > > > > > > > > > > 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/ > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
