Posts tagged development
New Account Settings Section
Yesterday we rolled out an other major update. After the Import Domains page cleanup and the user-friendly Error Pages, this time we are offering you a redesigned Account Settings section.
The new section is now divided into several tabs. The first one contains your user account settings. You can update your profile information, change your password and regenerate the authentication token.
If you haven’t updated your profile yet, take the time to fill your name and provide a few information about you.
User-Friendly Error Pages
We just deployed a customized version of the standard error pages, such as the 404 and 500.
So, the next time you’ll try to reach a page that doesn’t exist, you will see our friendly robot instead of a scary blank page with a red message.
Import Domains page cleanup
Let’s start a week with a new release. A few minutes ago we deployed an update to a few internal features and some improvements to the RoboDomain interface.
The most noticeable changes are in the Import Domains page that now looks more polished and user-friendly.
But wait, today is just Monday. The week has just began, and I’m quite sure we can expect more updates to be released very soon.
Stay tuned!
Whois definitions updated
We just pushed an update to the WHOIS infrastructure for several top level domains. The following new extensions are now fully supported, which means RoboDomain is now able to automatically detect and update creation and expiration dates.
.ci.at.cx.bo.ca.ck.cl.cm.cz
To update an existing domain, press the “syncronize domain dates” button in the domain overview page.
We are constantly adding new definitions. If you find yourself missing the support for a specific TLD, let us know and we’ll do our best to increase its priority in our task list.
What’s your name?
We recently released our new support system which, as you might have seen, is tightly integrated with our main application so that you don’t need a separate account to use it.
Unfortunately, RoboDomain didn’t let you provide an alternative name for your account and all the support users were displayed with the login name… until today!
Now you can provide some additional profile details in your RoboDomain account page, including your real name. Your support account will be updates as soon as you login again into the support site.
We are planning to integrate some of this information into the main application as well. So, what are you waiting for? Enter the account page and complete your profile.
Deploy August 19, 2010 - Bundler Edition
Been a while since we updated this blog. We’re very busy working on the new RoboDomain website and a branch new feature, but we continue to push small updates to the site as well.
Today we deployed a small architectural change, upgrading our codebase from Bundler 0.9 to the latest Bundler 1.0 release. We experienced a small downtime, less than 3 minutes, caused by the need to reinstall all the RoboDomain dependencies for the new release.
I personally want to take the time to thank Carl Lerche, José Valim, Yehuda Katz, and all Bundler contributors for their efforts and hard work.
Keep track of your new .CO domains
In about two hours from now, .CO Internet S.A.S. is going to open the registration of the .CO top-level domain. Starting from today, individuals, businesses and organizations are able to register a .CO domain name through one of the accredited registrars.
.CO domain name was officially announced in February and, since then, this extension has attracted lot of interest, mainly for its similarity with the international .COM top-level domain. Many well-known companies are using the .CO domain to expand their product or services. For instance, Twitter.com already acquired the T.CO domain name which will probably became its official URL shortener.
Here at RoboDomain we want to join the party and today we’re announcing the full support for .CO domains. You can now keep track of as many .CO domains as you want and RoboDomain will automatically fetch all the domain details for you, including the purchase and expiration dates as you would expect.
Deploy June 16, 2010
Here at RoboDomain we embrace many aspects of agile software development. One of these is the Release Early, Release Often technique.
We usually deploy around 10 new releases every month, but most of them contains small fixes or changes that might go unnoticed.
Inspired by the Harmony’s blog, here’s a brief summary of today’s release.
- Added full whois support for
.ee,.kz,.la,.ec,.uz, and.uytop level domains. RoboDomain should now be able to fetch the correct expiration/creation date when creating a domain. - Fixed broken image path when creating a new Hosting Company.
Changes to the .hu ccTLD WHOIS response
Last week the Nic.hu, the Hungarian domain authority, silently released an update to their Whois server interface which affected all the .hu domain queries.
All the domain information has been wiped out from new Whois response, including details about domain creation and expiration. This is how the server responds to a google.hu query as of June 1, 2010:
% Whois server 2.02a serving the hu ccTLD domain: google.hu További adatokért ld.: http://www.domain.hu/domain/domainsearch/ For further data see: http://www.domain.hu/domain/English/domainsearch/
Compared to the previous version, this is a massive cut.
Now you can invite everyone to RoboDomain
To celebrate our first-commit anniversary, we are now opening the invitation-beta phase for all our RoboDomain users. Existing users can now invite friends using the invitation form available in their dashboard.
Invited users can immediately open a new account.
If you don’t have any friend and you really want a RoboDomain account, don’t bang your head against the wall, leave your email here. We deliver new invitations almost every day.
Enjoy, and see you on RoboDomain!
