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Looking for advice on selling domains within a website creation app

#1
I'm working on a rails app to help people create websites, similar to weebly, but focused on a specific niche. I want to make it as easy as possible for my customers to buy a domain name through the app. Can anyone recommend a domain registrar with a great reseller program/api? Are there any rails plugins that could speed up development of this piece of the app? Anything I should look out for? Thanks!

Re: Looking for advice on selling domains within a website creation app

#2
We use Register.com, which was recommended to us by the awesome Weebly guys. The API is excellent and their developer support people are top-notch. Domains are pricey (though not as bad as it looks when you look at their retail prices), but everything works very well.

Re: Looking for advice on selling domains within a website creation app

#3
enom has a pretty decent API. You do need to buy credit in advance. I think it was around $200. As people register domains through your site, the money gets deducted from your account.

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

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