When Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP) became the domain industry standard in the early 2000s, it unlocked automation between registrars and registries, and fueled the rise of domain resellers, hosting providers, and WHMCS-based platforms.
But while EPP made domain provisioning scalable, it still relies on polling to detect lifecycle changes. Registrars and their resellers have spent years building and maintaining custom integrations, scripts, and cron jobs to stay in sync with events like transfers, deletions, or restores.
A transfer-out here, a restore there… and suddenly dev and support time disappears into background maintenance instead of product improvements.
If that hits too close to home, keep reading. Our new Webhooks Beta was built for you.
🚀 From EPP to events: Webhooks for the modern domain era
Fast forward to today: domains still remain the starting point and one of the most critical services web professionals and SMBs rely on to stay online. Expectations around reliability, automation, and integrations only grow.
At the same time, most of our partners are focused on AI website building, managed hosting, uptime, app performance, and support – not EPP logic or domain reconciliation. And even if they want to enter into domains, support more TLDs, or switch to a better domain provider, the reality is:
- Dev teams are already stretched, shipping core features or working on more urgent things
- Priorities lie with high-margin services like hosting or white-glove customer experiences
- Domain management ends up being a backend problem no one owns… until something breaks
“With great wholesale systems comes great responsibility.”
— Me, every morning before my first sip of coffee and diving into Jira!
If you’re a website builder, (managed) hosting provider, or web agency juggling thousands of websites, domain names, or other digital services, you already know how messy things get behind the scenes with manual syncs for transfer events or deletions, and delayed customer comms because your panel didn’t catch the change in time.
Until now, parsing emails or polling for updates were the only ways to keep your domain data fresh. We’ve seen this burning through developer time, slowing down product teams during onboarding, or clogging up infrastructure and maintenance teams.
Introducing Webhooks (beta): built for dev-limited teams with bigger priorities
Webhooks are now available to make things easier for you. With a few lines of code, your developers can start receiving push notifications whenever key domain lifecycle events occur directly into your platform.
No polling. No lag. No parsing emails, or unnecessary API calls. This means:
- Reduced API traffic and server load
- Faster visibility into domain events
- More reliable status tracking for your customers
- Fewer support tickets due to outdated or missed updates
When your panel knows what’s going on, so do your customers, reducing support load. Whether you’re migrating from a legacy domain setup or starting fresh with Openprovider, Webhooks help you do it faster, cleaner, and with less technical debt.
Domain operations supported are:
✅ Domain Transferred In / Out
🗑️ Domain Deletion Completed
♻️ Restore Completed / Failed
🚫 Transfers Failed / Canceled
📥 Registration / Trade / Update Outcomes
⚠️ Disputes or Registry Messages
See the full list of supported event types at the bottom of this article
🤝 Openprovider: more than just an API
This beta is part of our broader effort to support platforms that want to offer domains fast and make it sustainable. This isn’t only for domain-focused resellers, but also for platforms that need domain automation without a full dedicated domain product development team. Perfect for:
- Website builders and no-code tools that offer domain names
- Managed WordPress and cloud hosting providers that have not yet offered domains, but understand the stickiness and improved UX this can bring to their platforms
- DevOps-light agencies managing domains in bulk
- Platforms bundling hosting + email with low domain visibility
🧪 Ready to join the beta?
We’ll be gradually opening up the service to existing partners who sign up, inviting them to help shape the feature during the beta phase.
However, if you’re planning to integrate with Openprovider in the next 3–5 months, we strongly recommend signing up early.
👉 Talk to your account manager or sign up directly to the beta
When you choose Openprovider as your registrar and partner, you’re unlocking a support system designed to help you grow. Depending on the size of your business, you get:
- 🎯 MDF programs to boost your marketing and campaigns
- 🧾 Cost price access with our membership plans
- 🧑💻 Slack-based support for fast, high-priority professional help to large resellers
- 🏷️ Whitelabel email services under your brand
- ⚙️ Low-code setup with WHMCS and custom stacks
- 🧘 Low involvement, high margin – we do the heavy lifting, so you can scale
📚 Webhook event types (full list)
| Event Type | Description |
| testEvent | Webhook test (sent on setup) |
| incomingTransferCompleted | Domain transferred in |
| outgoingTransferCompleted | Domain transferred out |
| incomingTransferFailed | Incoming transfer failed |
| incomingTransferCanceled | Incoming transfer canceled |
| outgoingTransferCanceled | Outgoing transfer canceled |
| incomingTransferPending | Incoming transfer pending |
| outgoingTransferPending | Outgoing transfer pending |
| deletionCompleted | Domain deletion completed |
| deletionFailed | Deletion failed |
| registrationCompleted | Domain registered |
| registrationPending | Registration pending |
| registrationFailed | Registration failed |
| updateCompleted | Domain update completed |
| updateFailed | Update failed |
| tradePending | Trade pending |
| tradeFailed | Trade failed |
| restoreFailed | Restore failed |
| messageReceived | Message from registry |
| disputeReceived | Dispute opened |
| disputeClosed | Dispute closed |
