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[Peter Green <peter AT greenpete.co.uk>]

The idea of having an A.P.I. for us all to add a domain registration facility 
to our websites would be great! I would want to be able to put that on my 
regular hosting site, which is a .co.uk domain.

Peter

Wanged from my Kaiser by a mischievous pixie!

Chad Perrin <code AT apotheon.net> wrote:

>On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 11:46:56PM -0800, Travis McCrea wrote:
>> 
>> You can't write a FF or Chrome extension that does this (not without
>> some hacking at least). This was the initial plan of the MAFFIAFIRE
>> guys, but they couldn't achieve it so they use proxies and IPaddresses
>> instead. The Maffiafire team has stated their support for OpenNIC and
>> would help out if they can.
>
>I'm pretty sure that's "MAFIAA", not "MAFFIA".
>
>
>> 
>> We need to do better branding thats for sure, especially because right
>> now we are prime material to be the new standard for DNS on the
>> internet… people want a free and uncensored root, and we can be that
>> alternative to the primary internet roots. We need to stop looking at
>> things as technicians though, and start looking at them like UI guys
>> and start focusing on the "customer" not the technology. 
>
>An important thing to accomplish (though I'm not sure how to do so) is to
>make it a lot easier for people to get domains using OpenNIC TLDs to
>resolve to shared hosting accounts, I think.  Almost no shared hosting
>providers, as far as I know, are set up so that people can have their
>opennic.tld domains resolve to their shared hosting accounts.
>
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>Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]
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