Domains Service Release Notes
Version 3.4 - March 9, 2010
What's new
- Significantly enhanced the NAME-SUGGEST API call to add:
- Parallelized lookups to provide faster lookups across multiple TLDs
- Added multiple language support to Name Suggestions via the API and in the RWI
- Added new max wait time and search key parameters
- Added local caching to improve lookup speed
Version 3.3.3 - November 26, 2009
What's new
- Added .EU IDN domain registrations.
Version 3.3.2 - November 7, 2009
What's new
- Added .NAME IDN domain registrations.
Version 3.3.1 - November 3, 2009
What's new
- Added .MX (second level) domain registrations.
- Simplified the .CA registration process by allowing Resellers to indicate that the Registrant has been shown and has agreed to the CIRA Registrant Agreement.
Version 3.3 - October 8, 2009
What's new
- New Managed DNS Service as part of The OpenSRS API and RWI
- Added .IN, .WS and .BZ ccTLD domain extensions
Version 3.2 - September 22, 2009
What's new
- Better WHOIS parsing for Transfer-In requests.
- Adding support for authorization codes to .DE transfers.
- Removing the requirement for a Transfer Key and phone number.
- Messaging templates have been cleaned up, and a number of templates have been deprecated.
Version 3.1 - August 6, 2009
What's new
- The ability for Resellers to provision and manage sub-reseller accounts has been added to OpenSRS. Click for more information on Sub-resellers.
Version 3.0 - March 25, 2009
What's new
- .TEL is now in full General Availability.
March 3, 2009
What's new
- Improved the results returned by searches against the Personal Names database.
February 3, 2009
What's new
- .TEL ordering for the Landrush period was added to the RWI and API.
November 14, 2008
What's new
- .TEL ordering for the Sunrise period was added to the RWI.
October 23, 2008
What's new
- A cleaned up 'search domains' results page
- Easier access to Tucows Insight
- Removal of unused links
- Streamlined "View Orders" section that now includes ccTLDs
- A new section, "Change Owner/Registrant", which brings together "Submit .CA Registrant Transfer Request" and "Submit .EU or .BE ownership change."
- Another box below "what's new" with links to several helpful sites and resources
October 7, 2008
What's new
- .UK service has now been moved from an asynchronous system to a fully EPP-based implementation for faster provisioning and changes.
October 1, 2008
What's new
- The minimum term length for .ME registrations has been reduced from two years to one year.
- .CN domain names can now be registered for 5 to 10 years.
July 15, 2008
What's new
- There are a pair of new ccTLD's now available in OpenSRS: .LI and .ME. There are no residence restrictions for either.
July 9, 2008
What's new
- New "Push domains" feature
- This allows you to move domains into another reseller account WITHOUT adding an additional year.
- In order for a "push" to work, the gaining reseller has to add the "pushing" reseller to their "allowed" list in the push domains settings area.
- New bulk "check availability" feature
- You can now submit a list of domain names and find out whether they can be registered. This checks registries as well as the Premium Names database and the Personal Names database.
- "Apply to all domains" checkbox
- Most bulk changes can now be applied to ALL domains in a reseller account with one click.
- Enable/disable WHOIS Privacy
- Whois Privacy can now be enabled AND disabled via the Bulk Domain Change Management section in the RWI.
- Removal of WHOIS Privacy approval messages
- Registrants are no longer sent an activation link when WHOIS Privacy is enabled for their domain name.
- Expanded bulk queue and jobs limit
- You can now modify up to 10,000 names at a time (used to be 1,000). You can also have up to three jobs running at once (used to be only one).
- Bulk renewals via API
- Bulk renewals have been introduced to the API, which was previously not available.
- Extended API
March 26, 2008
What's new
- The .ASIA sponsored generic top level domain is now live.
February 19, 2008
What's new
- Added OpenSRS Personal Names Service.
July 24, 2007
What's new
The following API calls have been added:
- GET_TRANSFERS_IN. This new API call lists domains that have been transferred in. All attributes are optional, but can be used to narrow the search criteria. If no attributes are specified, all domains that were ever transferred into the profile are returned.
- GET_BALANCE. This new API call queries the requester's account, and returns the total amount of money in the account and the amount that is allocated to pending transactions.
- GET_DOMAIN. We added the 'limit' parameter to the existing command. This is an optional parameter that specified the number of domains to return per page.
- PROCESS_PENDING. This API call can also be used to process cancelled orders, provided the cancelled order was new or a transfer.
- The following Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs)
have been added:
- .ORG - added Spanish, Castilian
- INFO - added Danish, Hungarian, Icelandic, Korean (Hangul), Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish and Swedish
- .BIZ - added Chinese, Danish, Icelandic, Japanese, Norwegian, Spanish, Castilian, and Swedish
- For .US names, we added a list of reserved names.