Anyname Domain Services

DomainStudio – the renamed QinetiX Domain Portfolio Administrator product is a bit behind schedule & delayed for a week or two.

There’s several reasons for this: Firstly I’ve had to deal with other admin/product/server/stuff issues surrounding the primary Anyname business which took up most of last week. Coming back to DS after being away sometimes gives a bit of a different perspective and I’ve realised that some of the framework the product is based on is not extensible enough and so I’m having to refactor some of the code. It’s a very different animal to its ancestors and works a lot differently.

The upshot is – as far as functionality goes – is that there will only be one version of the product, at a fixed price for v1, and with a long roadmap to integrate all of the features meant for the pro version in v2 etc. It will help with suporting the product and cut-out any upgrade issues.

For the final feature list, the only things that will be different from how it stands at present – which is fully functional & working if you knew which of my domains I’m testing it on -will be that v1 won’t come with any payment functions, but will come with functioning widets & shortcodes.

I’m still not sure on the payment gateway thing, there’s other specialist plugins & bridge products which may be more suited to this and creating links to these may be better in the long run. I’ll have to think about it. Adding paypal & google buttons would not be too difficult if needed.

I’ll add a full feature list & roadmap when available. It shouldn’t be too different from before, with the exceptions of above & merging the two products into one.