DiaMatrix recently became the first .co.za registrar in South Africa to register domains on UniForum's new EPP system. The company can now also reveal that its Multi-Registrar EPP Control Panel has officially been launched today. Its domains.co.za Control Panel can turn ISPs into certified registrars within an hour*, eradicating their need to develop their own plugins, saving development time and money.
UniForum's Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP) system is a far more advanced, modernised and secure way of registering domains, and EPP has been adopted internationally for several years already. The EPP system, which is already active and highly successful, will, over time, replace the current Legacy system entirely.
The DiaMatrix Multi-Registrar Control Panel, which is run from the very appropriately named www.domains.co.za domain name, speaks directly to the UniForum EPP system via the registrar's account details and allows the registrar to register new domains and manage all other domain names effectively from within the control panel (CP). The CP also allows registrars to import all Legacy domains into their account and manage them from there. DiaMatrix is also the only registrar that has successfully migrated Legacy domains to the new EPP system.
To become a registrar directly with UniForum, a two-fold accreditation process is required. Managing director of DiaMatrix, Wayne Diamond, says: “The registrar documentation is first completed and this is then followed by the registrar's Technical Accreditation, which requires that every technical element performs successfully before UniForum will approve it technically and allow the registrar to move on to the next step in the approval process.”
An ISP would need to undergo approximately two to three months' development time followed by another two months in the “sandbox” before migrating to the live .co.za system. DiaMatrix's Multi-Registrar EPP CP (www.domains.co.za) was developed over 18 months in conjunction with UniForum and allows ISPs to gain full registrar accreditation into the .co.za system within one hour*.
The new domains.co.za Multi-Registrar system is fully white-labelled. In other words, for all intents and purposes, should a client see the domain registration information for their domain that has been registered by an ISP/registrar using the DiaMatrix system, the client will not see any of DiaMatrix's information. The client will only see the information pertaining to the ISP/registrar that registered the domain on their behalf. Furthermore, the DiaMatrix Multi-Registrar EPP CP fits perfectly with the new international Top Level Domain Names (gTLDs) that are being launched (eg .africa; .company name; .brand; etc).
DiaMatrix is in the final testing phase of implementing the Application Programing Interface (API), which will allow ISPs to integrate the system into their own billing solutions.
The domains.co.za API will allow all domain functionalities (eg registrations, deletes and updates) of the EPP system. It will also allow for the integration of domain registrations into all ISPs' billing systems.
DiaMatrix is constantly extending its domains.co.za CP with additional functionality such as domain lock, auto renew and hosting integration. The additional functionality will be launched soon.
The DiaMatrix domains system is available to all ISPs at a no set-up fee promotion.
*Excludes UniForum's admin Accreditation process.
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