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[Jeff Taylor <shdwdrgn AT sourpuss.net>]

I am very close to opening up a new site for registering .oss and 
.parody domain names.  I'm still working on a few features, but for the 
most part the new code is ready to go.

The benefits...
- This time I actually know what I'm doing!  When I wrote the original 
registration site, I barely had a grasp on how DNS worked, and that is 
apparent in the mixed screens available for entering fields.
- Like the reg.for.free site, this new page will allow you to create a 
basic DNS zone for your domain that is hosted here, or you can choose to 
use your own nameservers and build your records as you see fit.
- There will be actual expirations on domains, with emails sent out to 
notify owners of yearly renewals.
- I have support built in for other languages, and have been working 
with others to get translations for the bulk of the text.

The pitfalls...
- I still suck at website design.  The theming I built is horrible, but 
the new engine has been designed with flexibility in mind, so at some 
point in the future I hope someone else can do better, and possibly 
offer different methods of building the DNS data.


One of the features of the new code I wrote is that it will perform 
validations on the information entered.  While bring the current data 
for OSS and Parody into the new system, I discovered that a large number 
of registered domains don't actually have valid data, and are probably 
not even being used.  There appears to only be 3 valid domains under 
parody, so I will open up that TLD on the new system first before moving 
OSS over.

This should start happening next week, depending on my available time.  
I'll make announcements as I get things moved around...