Ask HN: How do you register domains for non-technical clients?

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Our site plans on issuing subdomains for free (xxxxx.mysite.com), and also the buy-in opportunity to choose a domain name and have it point to the subdomain via a CNAME. The site is geared to a non-technical demographic, so ease-of-use is a necessity, hence this question.

Are there any API's, reseller accounts, etc, that you've used to accomplish this?

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We're planning to use eNom for this:

http://www.enom.com/resellers/overview_api.asp

The testing we've done so far, as we continue to build our service (pre-launch), has found the API capable of everything we need it to do, from domain checking and registration to e-mail forwarding address creation.

Would love to chat, as I suspect we'll be dealing with some similar issues (e.g. how to walk non-technical customers through transfering an existing domain name). You don't have any contact info in your HN about section, but feel free to send an e-mail to the address listed in mine.

Jay, do they have a PDF with their API reference available somewhere for download? I've tried to "get started" but they blasted me with pay up and sign up screen without showing a detailed list of all features available via the API.

Thanks.

They do: https://www.enom.com/resellers/APICommandCatalog.pdf

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