Introduction
Blesta is an all-in-one domain provisioning, client management, billing/invoicing, and client support solution for any business selling through a website. By coupling Blesta with the CentralNic Reseller (formerly RRPProxy) Registrar Module, anyone can start reselling hundreds of profitable domain name extensions (TLDs) quickly and in ease.
Preparation
Signup
To sign up and learn more about becoming a customer of CentralNic Reseller, visit: How to Get Started as a CentralNic Reseller.
Registrar Account Settings
Blesta has its own automatic renewal logic. That's why we highly recommend deactivating the automatic Domain Renewal happening in our Registrar Systems by default. Otherwise, it will lead to undesired Renewals of Domains while your customers haven't paid for it in Blesta.
Ensure to set the global Domain Renewal Mode Setting in your account to "Auto Expire" or "Expire Domain". If you did this at later point of time, please update already existing Domains accordingly as well. If you need help with this, feel free to reach out.
This action needs to be covered outside of Blesta using the respective registrar's frontend.
Software Dependencies
Ensure to have the below packages installed on your Blesta Server:
- Blesta 5 & PHP 8
- curl
- php-curl
We are in general always supporting the latest version of Blesta. For the latest Blesta minimum system requirements, please refer to System Requirements.
Downloads
To download the CentralNic Reseller Registrar module, please navigate to: CentralNic Reseller (fka. RRPProxy)
Extract the downloaded package into your Blesta Installation as described below under "Installation & Upgrade".
In case of upgrading, we recommend backing and cleaning up folders and files of a previous module version first. Skipping this step is possible, but can break in rare cases. In addition, we suggest having an internal Blesta QA System for testing upgrades before the roll-out to production. You can get a free developer license at blesta.com.
Release Notifications
Feel free to add yourself as Watcher to our Github Repository by clicking on the Watch button at the top of the page and then choose Releases Only.
Feel free to Star us as well to support our work. Thanks so much!
Installation & Upgrade
If you have not yet Blesta set up, please follow their Installation Guide which explains the Installation Process completely and well.
Copy all files from our archive to your Blesta directory, while keeping the folder structure intact.
e.g. components/modules/cnr/cnr.php => <Blesta>/components/modules/cnr/cnr.php
Set up a Cron Job
In order to automate tasks within Blesta, a cron job must be created. More information on how to set up the cron job, can be found here (section 4)
Module Configuration
Reseller Credentials:
In the Blesta Admin area, go to Settings > Modules > Available
Install the new registrar ”CNR vx.y.z”, and enter your CentralNic Reseller credentials.
To enable "Test Mode," log in to your CentralNic account and go to Password & Security > Operational Test & Evaluation (OT&E) to set up a password. You can use this password later when configuring Test Mode in your registrar module.
To enter your credentials, go to
Settings > Modules > Installed > Centralnic Reseller module → Manage > Add Account
You can add multiple accounts there. Check ‘Sandbox’ if it represents your OT&E account.
Make sure that the account you are using is set to renewal mode AUTOEXPIRE in your Control Panel, otherwise, domains might be renewed without being paid for by the customer
Inter-Registrar Transfer Policy (IRTP). It governs the domain name transfers between ICANN registrars. The IRTP includes changes to domain ownership. Small changes to a domain name’s registrar first name, last name, organization, and email address trigger the validation process.
At the moment this feature is not supported by Blesta. In order to make it possible for our customers to trigger the validation process, we provide the following procedure:
“You have to obtain verifiable DA status to act on behalf of the new registrant of a domain name. To do that:
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navigate on the control panel:
Reseller Settings > Domain Settings. Under the “gTLD Inter-Registrar Transfer Policy” section first read the terms, implement the legal changes, and finally verify your Designated Agent status and your wish to alter the ModifyDomain command for IRTP compliance. -
Whenever your customer evokes a material change of registrant, the Reseller must submit the change as the DA for the new registrant.
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The prior (old) registrant will always be sent an authorization email, and they will have fourteen (14) days to confirm the change.
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The opt-out of the sixty (60) transfer lock is enabled for module Resellers by default. However, if a Reseller wishes to opt-in (disable the automatic opt-out) to the registrar transfer lock so that they can immediately process Change of Registrant requests with added security (for Change of Registrant when email addresses are not working), resellers can simply enable the checkbox stating “Disable the automatic opt-out. Registrant changes are processed in real-time, but domains will also get transfer-locked for 60 days. Dependant on fallback being enabled.”
Additional Domain Fields
The registration of some extensions requires additional domain fields. (e.g. Legal Type for a .CA domain etc.) in special cases. Additional fields are already included in the module. When you enter a domain to register, the additional fields will be automatically displayed.
Reselling with Blesta
This link provides general information on how you can sell domains using Blesta and a registrar module.
if this is still leaving questions, feel free to reach out.