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Relying on a scraper is a nasty way to do business. Registrars change their admin interface all the time - your service will constantly be breaking, often at in
by gyardley 15y ago
Relying on a scraper is a nasty way to do business. Registrars change their admin interface all the time - your service will constantly be breaking, often at inconvenient times. Rather bad for you if you've already taken someone's money.
I could see putting a person or two in a call center in Manila, giving them instructions on how to set CNAME records at the major registrars, and then charging people a fixed fee for help with this stuff. To get leads, you could offer the Tumblrs / Weeblys / etc. of the world a kickback to promote your service in your admin interface, through a 'Get low-cost expert help with this' link in their documentation.
After the call center's up and running, you can decide if you want to build scrapers to make your call center even more efficient, although I doubt it'd be worth the hassle.
- petenixey 15y agothe human option is a smart one - that said, regular tests could flag up a failing service and one could switchover rapidly. The service would definitely be brittle underneath which is why it would be worth paying for.