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[Will Furnell <willfurnell AT me.com>]

On 08/03/2014 06:27, Jeff Taylor wrote:
> 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...
>
>
>
>
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Twitter's Bootstrap makes a great web interface/css framework if you 
can't (or don't want to!) design one yourself. It has all the components 
etc. you would ever need. See http://getbootstrap.com/

It also has some nice javascript elements and templates to get started too.


Looking forward to see the end result;

Will.