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>> I wouldn't be surprised if such registrars exist - there's folk who
>> manage thousands of domains and an API interface would be handy.
> Agreed.

True. I've been speaking with people, such as customer-facing
front-line people at registrar/reseller outfits, who are not competent
to discuss APIs or to understand the differences and similarities
between a "secure" webpage and an API provided over HTTPS - and an API
provided over some other underlying mechanism.  It's led me to get a
bit sloppy with my language.

> I was eliding the use case of mass domain registration / management.
> As it seemed apparent to me that the OP was decidedly outside of that
> group of users.

Correct.

I _have_ had a small number of people (one? two? three?) float the
possibility of just adding my domain to the substantial number of
domains those people are already managing; taking one of them up on it
was one of the possibilities I was contemplating.  Not ideal but might
have been workable if I hadn't found a better alternative.

> That being said, I suspect that many ~> most of the APIs that you're
> referring to ride on top of HTTPS.  };-)

There is that.  Such APIs are, in general, not suitable for me either.
Besides, most of them require some setup steps, such as getting an API
key, be performed via a webpage first.

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