Subdomains Extension - LNbits extension
For more about LNBits extension check this tutorial
So the goal of the extension is to allow the owner of a domain to sell subdomains to anyone who is willing to pay some money for it.
- Free Cloudflare account
- Cloudflare as a DNS server provider
- Cloudflare TOKEN and Cloudflare zone-ID where the domain is parked
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Register at Cloudflare and setup your domain with them. (Just follow instructions they provide...)
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Change DNS server at your domain registrar to point to Cloudflare's
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Get Cloudflare zone-ID for your domain
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Get Cloudflare API TOKEN
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Open the LNbits subdomains extension and register your domain
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Click on the button in the table to open the public form that was generated for your domain
- Extension also supports webhooks so you can get notified when someone buys a new subdomain
- Extension also supports webhooks so you can get notified when someone buys a new subdomain
- Domains
- GET /api/v1/domains
- POST /api/v1/domains
- PUT /api/v1/domains/<domain_id>
- DELETE /api/v1/domains/<domain_id>
- Subdomains
- GET /api/v1/subdomains
- POST /api/v1/subdomains/<domain_id>
- GET /api/v1/subdomains/<payment_hash>
- DELETE /api/v1/subdomains/<subdomain_id>
- Cloudflare offers programmatic subdomain registration... (create new A record)
- you can keep your existing domain's registrar, you just have to transfer dns records to the cloudflare (free service)
- more information:
- https://api.cloudflare.com/#getting-started-requests
- API endpoints needed for our project:
- api can be used by providing authorization token OR authorization key
- check API Tokens and API Keys : https://api.cloudflare.com/#getting-started-requests
- Cloudflare API postman collection: https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/115002323852-Using-Cloudflare-API-with-Postman-Collections