Re:Facebook sues Namecheap
by edoceo on Thursday March 05, 2020 @08:21PM
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Facebook could pay NameCheap a few bucks to attach an observer pattern to some registration watch filter and get real-time notification from some narrow scope of name patterns.
In the olden days one would make a 20 line Perl script w/a nasty regex that's forked off for every registration -- and bill on the value not time to code.
Is a more modern pattern to egregious? FB just send NC a filter table.
Re:Facebook sues Namecheap
by supermatt on Friday March 06, 2020 @12:38AM
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You can apply directly to the registry to get zone file access. There are also services which already do this and provide APIs, etc. No need to set up special relationships with registrars.
In the olden days one would make a 20 line Perl script w/a nasty regex that's forked off for every registration -- and bill on the value not time to code.
Is a more modern pattern to egregious? FB just send NC a filter table.
Other name sensitive watchers could be added too.