Features

DOMINIC4brands: COMPLETE SYSTEM

DomiNIC4brands comprises the central business process engine (DomiNIC4domains-BPE) and two web-applications: the customer self service interface (wizard) and the administrative interface.

DOMAIN MANAGEMENT - PRODUCTION SYSTEM
DomiNIC4brands supports about 1200 name spaces with international domain names (IDN).

WORLD WIDE DOMAIN SEARCH
A world wide search for available domains is integrated in each web-application.

CUSTOMER SELF-SERVICE INTERFACE

The so-called domain wizard enables a three step domain registration and provides a shopping cart. The customer manages his domain in a self-service-way without any assistance from his provider.

ADMINISTRATIVE INTERFACE

The administrative interface is a comfortable means (GUI) for domain management under all TLDs (especially ccTLDs) with one provider and for all transactions. The GUI also provides a customer and user management. It offers numerous customisation options to meet customers demands and supports consolidation of the domain inventory.

USER GUIDANCE
The administrative interface of DomiNIC4brands now guides the user through a domain oder with the help of "next" and "back" buttons. The skilled user however is free to use the menu to navigate through the domain order.

REPRODUCTION OF COMPANY STRUCTURES

Constitution and maintainance of hierarchical structures of the business units. Central and non central control and administration and of the domain inventory.

AUTORENEW
Persistant monitoring of domain expiry dates in DomiNIC4brands ensure a renewal of domains in time.

BULK REGISTRATION
The GUI supports a bulk registration of domains, together with the checking of availability and the formal correctness.

DOMAIN LIFECYCLE
Im Domainlifecycle werden alle Transaktionen einer Domain von der Registrierung bis heute dargestellt. Dazu können alle Details und Korrespondenzen eingesehen werden

STATISTICS
Domain and order statistics can be displayed using a histogramm.

INFORMATION ANALYSIS AND VISUALISATION

DomiNIC4brands provides comprehensive data for domain orders, the domain inventory and the DNS in a data warehouse. Based on this data warehouse an analysis and visualisation of information can be performed with adequate Tools. Templates for data analysis with Infozoom are included in delivery.

SCALABILITY AND AVAILABILITY
Serveral of the components, including the user interfaces, run on a JBOSS application server and are therefore enterprise applications. As such they are appropriately scalable and available.

SEMANTICAL VALIDATION 
Order data are checked both syntactically and semantically.

AUTOMATIC GENERATION OF PDF-DOCUMENTS

Generation of PDF-documents for transactions

  • owner change
  • admin change 
  • transfer
  • delete

Clearance manually after receipt of the signed document.

REMINDER

The recipient of a PDF-documents (vie email) receives a reminder concerning the outstanding operation every week. The reminder also contains the first message. After four weeks of no response the job is automatically cancelled in fax clearance.

SLA-MANAGEMENT FOR WARRANTY OF QOS 
Each job in DomiNIC4brands is time-monitored. If the execution exceeds a defined time period escalation is invoked.

PROFILES AND ACCESS MANAGEMENT
Transactions on domains and contacts are governed by rights. Likewise customer- and user-access is controlled by rights. Rights are combined to profiles which can be assigned to users.

ADMINISTRATION OF PURCHASE / SELLING PRICES
A list of prices considered as purchase prices for a reseller can be generated. The reseller in turn is free to assign an individual price list to each of his customers.

SALES TAX FOR EUROPEAN COUNTRIES
The actual rate of sales tax based on the reseller's domicile is included in prices and displayed in the wizard.

USER DEFINED FIELDS
The administrative interface can be supplied with user defined fields in order to save additional data or to substitute data if neccessary.

DNS MANAGEMENT
DomiNIC4domains supports BIND9 and NSD (RIPE), maintainance of all prevailing resource records (A, MX, CNAME, TXT, PTR, NS, SPF, SRV, NAPTR), hidden nameserver, multiprimary operation.

NIC DRIVER
Registry / NIC-specific drivers include the configurations, templates, PDFs etc. required for domain orders thus providing an easy update of the information. 

SUPPORT OF NIC SERVICES

Fully automated business processes of the leading registries and registrars: New, Renew, Transfer, Owner-Change, Admin-Change, Domain-Lock/Unlocking, Queueing, Zone-Update, Local Presence - regarding the registries' validation rules.

PROVISIONING
DomiNIC4brands provides provisionierung of external services by integration into the workflows controlled by DomiNIC4brands

SINGLE SIGN ON
DomiNIC4brands is now able to employ external data sources. Hence users can be assigned to customers and a central authentication carried out. 

SOAP INTERFACE
DomiNIC4brands supports a SOAP interface to connect external datasources.

CUSTOMER SPECIFIC EMAIL TEMPLATES
DomiNIC4brands unterstützt  kundenspezifische Informations-E-Mails, die vom Kunden geändert werden können.

USER DEFINED FIELD "EMAIL"
Per default the DomiNIC4brands-BPE sends all PDFs to the email address of the domain owner or admin. When the user defined field "email" is defined,  all emails are sent to the address specified in that field.

UPDATE OF THE COMPONENTS
DomiNIC44brands nowruns with the PostgreSQL database version 8.1 and programs are developed under java version 1.6.

IMPROVED DOMAIN SEARCH
The search for domains can be filtered with respect to the different states of the domains in the database. DomiNIC4brands now provides additional filter options i.e. customer, creation and / or expiry date of the domain, nameservers, contacts and userdefined fields. Moreover more than one search string can be specified.

ORDER COMPLETION
It is now possible to save incomplete order in DomiNIC4brands. These orders can be reaccessed at any time, completed an sent to processing.

MULTIPLE-DOMAIN ORDER
With DomiNIC4brands more than one domain can now be registered or modified in one working step, as long as identical order data are associated with the different.

COMPREHENSIVE STATISTICS
DomiNIC4brands now possesses a tool to calculate the costs of domain renewal in order to ensure future liquidity. There are several functions for domain and order statistics as well.

NAMESERVER GROUPS
Nameserver groups: nameserver groups are supported for use in the internet (external nameserver groups) and / or in an intranet (DNS-Only)(internal nameserver groups). Simplified domain order due to the Template function of the nameserver groups.

CORRESPONDENCY
The representation of correspondency has a well arranged tabular form. It yields an overview over all incoming and outgoing emails associated with the selected ticket. The email content can be shown and hidden  if necessary.

RIGHTS FOR USER DEFINED FIELDS
Access to userdefined fileds can be controlled be rights. It is possible to determine for each field, whether it is displayed to the user and if it is, whether the user is allowed to enter information to it.

IMPROVED PRICE MANAGEMENT
The creation of purchase prices for a customer is now done via administrative interface (GUI). The prices will be entered per TLD and they can be stored as standard prices or customer specific prices.

RESOURCE RECORDS: NAPTR, SRV UND SPF
DomiNIC4brands now supports three additional resource record types.  NAPTR, SRV and SPF records can be easily entered via GUI.

ENHANCED PERFORMANCE
Prices, authentication data and TLD-templates are cached, thus enhancing the perfomance with respect to queries on a database or external system.

ACCOUNTING

An order consisting of more than one NIC-transaction is split into its transactions, which are each processed with a seperate ticket number. An accounting record ist written for each ticket containing the prices for the TLD and transaction under consideration. These accounting records can be used to feed a billing system.

Furthermore prices for DNS-only Domains (domains with only zone administration) can be defined.

With each pricing record the corresponding NIC is stored, in preparation of the forthcoming MultiNIC functionality.

E-MAIL CATEGORIES
The multitude of different emails sent by DomiNIC4brands has been categorised. The DomiNIC4brands administrator can assign one or more email address(es) to each categorie thus assuring the correct delivery of the emails.

RESTART OF FAILED ORDERS
The status 'rejected (NIC)' will be assigned to orders that failed at the NIC. By means of the search function these orders can be reloaded, then corrected and sent to the NIC again. 

ATTACHMENTS
Arbitrary documents can now be stored not only as attachments to domains but also as attachments to orders.

New GUI

The administrator interface is now called Domain Manager and the customer interface (wizard) is now called Domain Shop.

The Domain Manager GUI has been completely new designed. Working with the new GUI is more intuitive and more efficient.

Enhancement of performance
The latest web technologies yield a faster frontend. 

Discharging of orders has become more efficient in the backend.

Prices, authentication data and TLD templates are stored in a cache thus enhancing the performance of queries on the database or external systems.

MultiNIC
DomiNIC4domains now supports MultiNIC. After appropriate configuration several NICs/registrars are available for the registration of a domain.
Products & services

This new feature can associate a product with a domain. A product can contain various, configurable services. Services can be e.g. 'http-redirect' or 'POP3 mailboxes' etc.. The products can be individually composed from the available services.

Ordering of contact handles
Contact handles can now be ordered with DomiNIC4domains if the respective NIC supports the transaction.
Unterstützung weiterer Resource Records
DomiNIC4brands unterstützt jetzt zwei weitere Resource Record Typen: AAAA und HINFO Records. Sie können über die GUI eingegeben werden.
User rights for resource records
A user right for each resource record type controls which user is allowed to edit or modify a resource records type.
Documents and links
With the feature 'Documents and links' a reseller can provide documents and link for his customers.

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