Nominet "Nominet XML" not EPP

Whois-Search · Feb 20, 2008

I would be interested to know what people here think about this comment:

http://lists.nominet.org.uk/pipermail/nom-owg-eppbeta/2008-February.txt

As I will be the one that has to plan using it on 123-reg and we have other suppliers that use EPP http://www.centralnic.com/partners/domain-partners/epp

monaghan · Feb 20, 2008

I didn't know 123 had an API, when did this happen?

I saw the original post and the reply, from my (so far limited) exposure, I would suggest that it is EPP, however the data model used by Nominet seems to be different in places from other registrars. EPP is only the protocol, not the data definition.

From memory, Centralnic have some sample EPP libraries, if you're building a system you might be better off using a seperate "plug in" for each registry and mapping your customer data out to each plug in and leaving the plug in code to handle the customer -> registry mapping

Whois-Search · Feb 20, 2008

monaghan said:
I didn't know 123 had an API, when did this happen?

We are still using the Automaton (email pgp) for both Nominet and Centralnic at the moment.

monaghan · Feb 20, 2008

Ah... I'd not viewed the profile, I'd assumed you were trying to reg via an API call to 123.

esrun · Feb 20, 2008

I read it and I think the guy was going a bit OTT. It's close enough, it was never going to be exact because the extensions built into the EPP scheme weren't flexible enough to accomodate the way nominet handles things.

Okay its not going to be exact plug and play between differerent EPP servers but it's not going to need huge modifications to work on others.