has any of the big registrars like OpenSRS, Dotster, or Godaddy
setup any kind of webservice to allow for domain registration.. or do they have any plans to?

Ummm, isn't that what they're doing?

a webservice uses SOAP to interact between applications.. im not talking about a CGI script that uses CURL to send and get information or just regular HTTP POST and GET.

XML webservices is what im talking about. sorry to mislead.

Originally posted by anantatman
a webservice uses SOAP to interact between applications.. im not talking about a CGI script that uses CURL to send and get information or just regular HTTP POST and GET.

XML webservices is what im talking about. sorry to mislead.

then wouldn't you just need a webhost that supports XML, i'm sure that these are out there......anyone know of any?

unless your host didnt support xml when compiling php or even without it
there are plently of SOAP libraries packages as php files that will do your job.

Originally posted by anantatman
a webservice uses SOAP to interact between applications.. im not talking about a CGI script that uses CURL to send and get information or just regular HTTP POST and GET.

XML webservices is what im talking about. sorry to mislead. Uhh, sorry. Ya know, it's really hard keeping up with all of this stuff.

Originally posted by anantatman
a webservice uses SOAP to interact between applications.. im not talking about a CGI script that uses CURL to send and get information or just regular HTTP POST and GET.

XML webservices is what im talking about. sorry to mislead.

Why do you ask?? We are actually building an interface right now, an XML-RPC which relies on the mod's Frontier::Client and XML::parser.. so I'm interested as to what's on your mind :)

an interface to register domains?

well i was just wondering because that way i could get reseller accounts at 5 or so places and sort of like a lendingtree.com type site for domains..

of course godaddy would win all of the time ahah.

the thing is, with webservices, if in any business someone standardizes the input and output for transactions, stuff will get cheaper because it will be easier to get rates, price, etc..