Nominet Automaton Web Interface

By on August 15, 2007 in Blacknight, Domains, Email, irishblogs, nominet, Programming, Tips

As we are active members of Nominet, the .uk registry, we often have to modify, renew etc., domains on our account.
While it might be possible for each and every member of our staff to become intimate with the specific commands necessary to interface with the registry’s systems it would be a bit unrealistic. Our staff have enough on their plates!
So just over a year ago I asked one of our technical staff to do up a simple, easy to use, web interface for non-technical staff to use.
Over a year later it’s been re-written several times and now supports most of the Nominet automaton commands.
So you don’t need to spend 3/4 of an hour reading up on which template you need to use to perform a specific action.
Now I would never be so silly as to say that it’s attractive to look at, but it’s not meant to be!
So, in the interests of helping the wider Nominet community we’ve decided to make the interface software available to other Nominet members.
NB: If you are not a Nominet registrar this software will not be of any use to you. I repeat. You need to be a Nominet registrar (tag holder) to use this. You’ll also need to read the include README file carefully.
Although we’re generous people we would ask that you maintain the copyright notice that is included.
Full details are in the aforementioned README along with our nice big disclaimer – simple version being – if your server explodes or anything else happens please don’t complain to us.
So, without further ado here is the link to the software:
Nominet Automaton Web Interface
You will need a recent version of PHP 4 or 5 to make use of it. Further details in the “famous” README.
Any issues please let us know.

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8 Responses to Nominet Automaton Web Interface

  1. Carl August 16, 2007 at 10:56 #

    I’ve been looking for something like this for a while. I did consider writing one from scratch eventually but glad to see someone else got around to it. Will let you know how we get on.

  2. Michele Neylon August 16, 2007 at 21:05 #

    Carl
    Please do :)
    It’s working fine for what we need at the moment and I gather that quite a few people were still struggling with manual emails!
    Michele

  3. Nick August 24, 2007 at 16:21 #

    Didn’t work for me, I just get Warning: file_get_contents(/tmp/301f5a81fbdecf827fca8adaf5bf08df.asc): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/httpd/www/html/123registrations.co.uk/autom/index2.php on line 108
    looks as thought the gpg is signing it

  4. Tim October 19, 2007 at 14:17 #

    How did you generate the gpg key in gpg which nominet will axcept. I generated a key for nominet to use and they rejected it. I have another key inuse at the moment which does not have a email address associated to it.
    I had developed one in asp but is now out of date. Had no luck getting one to work in php.
    Thanks for posting the interface, it looks interesting.
    Tim

  5. Peter Lancaster February 26, 2008 at 10:38 #

    Hi
    the script is not working for me at the minute it will sign emails and send them but its not putting all the information on the email before it get signed.
    In the Body of the email all i get is my IPS Tag shown
    Pete

  6. Michele Neylon February 26, 2008 at 13:42 #

    Pete
    Was it working for you previously?
    Michele

  7. Peter Lancaster February 26, 2008 at 16:42 #

    Hi Michele
    this is the first time i have tried your script.
    I have tried it on an Raq550 with PHP4 and i have tried it on a dell server with ubuntu and php5 installed.
    Pete

  8. Michele Neylon February 26, 2008 at 18:00 #

    Pete
    If you can liase with support@blacknight.com our developers may be able to help you. Bear in mind, however, that they are extremely busy at present
    Michele