March 15, 2003
Open Source Registry Platform
Excellent. ISC, the people behind BIND, has started an open source registry project dubbed "OpenReg". The OpenReg project page sums it up best;"OpenReg is an implementation of a domain registry, such as might be used by top-level domain operators to manage the delegation of domains in a "shared registry" environment. OpenReg:
- supports the Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP), the IETF standards-track protocol for interaction between registries and registrars;
- is designed and debugged as a distributed multi-process system;
- supports PostgreSQL and is designed to accommodate to very large registries;
- publishes zone files to be served using BIND;
- gathers comprehensive profiling and load statistics;
- is published as free software, under a BSD-style licence."
I'm glad to see that this is happened. We need more registries, we need more gTLDs and country-code operators need a cost effective way to run a world-class registry without spending world-class dollars. OpenReg should make all of this just a little bit more possible.