kermit666

Saves time, I guess. The same reason you'd wanna use something like `howdoi` to get StackOverflow answers directly inside the terminal.

http://stackoverflow.com/a/14286317/544059

Exactly. The City of London is administratively a city and a county. Looking at these boundaries, it is the smallest English city [1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_London#Geography

OK, thanks. Yeah, we'll look into the Name.com API if we don't get some more prompt responses from DomainBox (with whose customer service we're chatting for the past two weeks to get even the most basic API calls working).

Have you used Name.com, perhaps?

NameCheap seems to have an XML-based API:

https://www.namecheap.com/support/api/intro.aspx

Not something that fills me up with joy :/ There's an unofficial Ruby wrapper that hasn't been touched in a year... https://github.com/parasquid/namecheap

Does anyone have any other recommendations?

With CloudFleet, we're trying to provide the complete self-hosted service for Mailpile.

https://cloudfleet.io/

(currently in development - looking to launch around November)

My thoughts exactly. Wonder how much CO2 was emitted just to power the animations in the background :P

How can I self-host Ubuntu One? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7516047