Dot and Co Software and Associated Services

For its activity Dot and Co builds various software. In accordance with our philosophy and legal statutes we try to make results available as free software when it is possible.

You can find below a list of tools already or soon available, as well as an introduction about our tailored support and developement services available with Dot and Co.

Do not hesitate to contact us for any precision or development proposal.

Software engineering and technical support services

Dot and Co can build any software for your specific Internet naming needs. You can contact us to describe your wishes and see how we can walk with you on the technical part if you are a registry, a registrar, a reseller or a web hosting company. You will also find below some software developed by us that may be of help.

We can also provide installation, configuration, maintenance and/or technical support on various free software developed by Dot and Co or some others products already used in your systems.

Dot and Co expertise comes from participation in IETF working groups related to domain names and new protocols, as well as building solutions for some registrars.

Please note that specific incentives/advantages are given to any development whose result can be redistributed as free software.

Software for registries/registrars/resellers/hosting companies and domain name managers

If you are a registrar, a reseller of a registrar, a client of a registrar or a reseller, you have to take into account the problem of access to your provider’s interfaces needed for handling your domain names. In which case you will soon come to the conclusion that it is a jungle, with so many distinct interfaces and services: websites have nothing in common, you have sometimes to send an email with a specific format, each registry implements another flavour of a protocol, even if a new standard (EPP) now exists which should hopefully be used everywhere in the future. In short, it can really fast become a nightmare to manage a plethora of software and procedures to handle all cases.

For this difficult problem, Dot and Co provides an easy, elegant and efficient solution: Net::DRI, a framework for connecting, which encapsulates and abstracts specifics of each provider, while being a free software implementation of some standards such as RRP or EPP.

You can find more details in our section dedicated to Net::DRI.

Technical solutions

We can provide to registries, registrars and domain names providers solutions tailored to their contractual requirements as well as their technical needs, including:

• registry registrar connections (see above about Net::DRI), with pooling, proxying, load balancing, fail over, access security checks and logging,
• zone resources management, DNS and Whois exports,
• accreditations process management with technical eligibility tests,
• technical infrastructure setup for a registry, a registrar, a domain name provider,
• interconnection with relational databases and tailored schemas,
• batch operations,
• queueing systems and asynchronous handling,
• backups and RDE,
• monitoring and QoS enforcements,
• whois/DAS/IRIS/DCHK servers, with query rate limiters, blacklist, whitelist, cache and logging,
• tools for enforcement of and obligations related to WDRP, UDRP, IRTP, ...
• registry reports management and reconciliation with local data,
• private administration website, end clients website and various interfaces (EPP, SOAP, email, etc.),
• testing and QA.

We can build solutions from scratch based on a set of features to be fixed from your needs and our expertise and advices, and we can also complement, enhance, upgrade or tie with any current existing system (DNS/Email/Web provisioning, customer/technical databases, billing, internal/external ticketing system, ...).

For any question on our technical solutions, if you are an existing registry, registrar or domain name provider, either a new one, or planning to become one, do not hesitate to contact us at contact@dotandco.com