Hi Josh, Here's the thing, I hear what you're saying about having a link in RWI that allows "unfettered" access to whois, this would be super useful when doing transfers and such. I'm with you there.
However the problem with doing so at this time is that I have no method of gauging abuse from within without many additional hours of dev work. Since introducing this speed bump on the public page we've seen a pretty decent decrease in lookups per IP on the whole and that is a good thing for all of us and a bad thing for Nigerians with $25 million to share ;) The setup fee would be a small price to pay for miners to gain "unfettered" access to our data again. I also really like the lookup idea brought forward by Adam (consider that on the TLD product Manager's wish list as well) I've got a pretty good idea of how I can get both these requests in there for you all, with limits (daily caps?) but it's not going to be until the new year (March/April timeframe) before we see this get developed and promoted. Fair? In the interim, if its any help, what I do personally is always have a term window open in Linux (sorry ms fans ;) and just do a whois straight from the shell. Engage! James -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Swerve Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 3:01 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; discuss Subject: Re: ? for Opensrs folks. /Management. Bill wrote: >Personally I cannot see any value in shifting valuable development resources to create unnecessary functions in the quickstart GUI. unnecessary function? Come on. whois and info about availability of domains is the most basic requirement if you are a domain reseller or purchaser. it's valuable to me and anyone else who's using the GUI. i do low volume. i've been using the gui for 3 years. I like it. i prefer to use opensrs whois. don't want to put in a password each time, since the web interface is now password required. i think this is a reasonable request. As a reseller, i expect to be able to access an unencumbered whois and availability of domain info. Peter, Ross, Elliot, time to chime in? Josh > > What i'm asking about is implementation into the quickstart gui > interface, >> where scripting by resellers is not required. > >Personally I cannot see any value in shifting valuable development >resources to create unnecessary functions in the quickstart GUI. >Remember folks, the quickstart GUI is just there to give someone new a >"quickstart" to using OpenSRS while they get their client side >processing up and running. > >It appears some folks may be using quickstart as their only (and >permanent) method for using OpenSRS. I cannot figure out why someone >would want to keep using the quickstart interface for much more than a >few weeks. The cost of doing business is much greater by manually >processing orders via quickstart than it is when automatically >processing via client side scripts. --
