Mar, 2009 : DiscountASP.NET Expands Open Control Panel Initiative

📅 March 24, 2009 - Adds APIs for customers to retrieve, add, and delete their A, CNAME, MX and TXT records.

DiscountASP.NET, a Windows hosting provider, today announced the expansion of their Open Control Panel API with the addition of APIs for DNS management. The company avers that the new DNS management APIs is part of its Open Control Panel Initiative, whose goal is to provide customers with maximum control over their hosting presence management.

It states that previously it introduced an ASP.NET web service API library which customers can use to develop their own web, desktop, or mobile applications that interface directly with their web hosting account management. The company further says that it has exposed methods to retrieve resource usage information, to recycle application pools, and to backup SQL 2008 and SQL 2005 databases. Today, it exposes methods for customers to retrieve, add, and delete their A, CNAME, MX and TXT records.

''The Open Control Panel Initiative is a step forward toward our vision of a next-generation hosting experience.'' said Takeshi Eto, VP Marketing. ''We want to provide our customers with increased flexibility and the power of choice to manage their hosting service in different ways. To this end we provide the traditional hosted control panel application, but with these APIs, customers can also create their own customized solutions.''