We should strive to integrate with the registrar_api and whois modules. Specifically, we should kick in the registrar_api when somebody enters a domain that is not registered (according to the whois module) and lead them towards an easy registration form.

Registrar API seems ideal as it is... well, an API. :) It can be extended to support many registrars (there's edns.de integration for now) and strives to be a clean API (although "it ain't pretty" right now).

Whois, on the other hand, seems more mature: it also has a stable D6 release and a beta D7.

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steven jones’s picture

steven jones commented
Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)

This can happen in contrib :)

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neograph734
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Project: Hosting » Hosting DNS
Version: 6.x-0.4-alpha3 »
Issue summary: View changes
Status: Closed (won't fix) » Postponed
Issue tags: -aegir-1.0, -dns

Moving this to the Hosting DNS module as discussed in #2466989: Spin off DNS extension.

The registrar API seems to be a Drupal 6 only module, so unless there are alternatives we'll have to postpone this.