specification: API Commons Packages
specificationVersion: '0.1'
provider: OnlineNIC
providerId: onlinenic
generated: '2026-09-17'
method: searched
source: >-
  https://www.onlinenic.com/cp_english/template_api/api_help.php ;
  https://www.onlinenic.com/en/Module/index/17.html ; registry metadata from packagist.org
description: >-
  Client libraries and integration packages for the OnlineNIC Reseller API. OnlineNIC distributes its
  own code as ZIP downloads from its website — there is no npm, PyPI, Packagist, Maven or NuGet entry
  under an OnlineNIC namespace, and no GitHub organisation (api.github.com/orgs/onlinenic returns 404).
  Every registry named in the enrichment contract was checked. Currency is the headline finding here:
  the newest first-party artifact of any kind is the 2019 WHMCS module, and the only SDK OnlineNIC
  ships targets API 3.4 — the version its own documentation page labels "Deprecated" — while the
  current API is 4.0.9.
registries_checked:
  - registry: packagist
    result: one third-party package found; no first-party namespace
  - registry: npm
    result: none
  - registry: pypi
    result: none
  - registry: rubygems
    result: none
  - registry: maven-central
    result: none
  - registry: nuget
    result: none
  - registry: crates.io
    result: none
  - registry: pkg.go.dev
    result: none
  - registry: github-org
    result: 'no org — https://api.github.com/orgs/onlinenic returned 404'
packages:
  - name: OnlineNIC PHP SDK (sdk_php)
    language: PHP
    official: true
    registry: direct-download
    url: https://www.onlinenic.com/cp_english/template_api/download.php?f=sdk_php.zip
    docs: https://www.onlinenic.com/cp_english/template_api/api_help.php
    version: '3.4'
    published: '2015-10-08'
    version_note: >-
      The download URL is unpinned — it always serves the current build and carries no version in the
      path — so a consumer cannot tell what they are getting from the link alone. The version and date
      recorded here are the ones the provider prints beside the download on its API page ("Software
      Development Kit for API 3.4 ... Release Date: 2015.10.08").
    targets_api_version: '3.4'
    status: stale
    note: >-
      Downloaded and inspected 2026-09-17 (HTTP 200, 35,164 bytes, 39 files). It implements the
      DEPRECATED v3.4 socket API, not the current REST API v4: ApiClient.php builds an XML
      <request><category><action><params><cltrid><chksum> document and ships it over a raw TCP socket,
      and config.php defaults to server 218.5.81.149 port 30009 with the shared OTE account. It carries
      39 demo scripts covering domain, SSL and account operations. No first-party SDK exists for API v4.
    probed:
      url: https://www.onlinenic.com/cp_english/template_api/download.php?f=sdk_php.zip
      status: 200
      bytes: 35164
      content_type: application/zip
  - name: OnlineNIC Pro (WHMCS registrar module)
    language: PHP
    kind: platform-module
    platform: WHMCS
    official: true
    registry: direct-download
    url: https://www.onlinenic.com/en/public/upload/down/20181015/1539576471.zip
    docs: https://www.onlinenic.com/en/Module/index/17.html
    version: '1.46'
    published: '2019-05-10'
    version_note: Version and release date printed on the provider's WHMCS module page.
    supports:
      - WHMCS 6.x
      - WHMCS 7.x
      - PHP 5.4+
    transport_note: >-
      Requires outbound TCP to the OnlineNIC API server on port 30009, i.e. it drives the deprecated
      socket API rather than the HTTPS v4 API. The page publishes the iptables rules to open it.
    features:
      - Domain registration / renewal / transfer, including new gTLDs
      - Transfer lock, contact update, nameserver change, private DNS
      - EPP auth code retrieval
      - ID Shield privacy protection
      - Domain auto-synchronisation
    note: >-
      Last released 2019-05-10 and declares support only through WHMCS 7.x; WHMCS has shipped 8.x since
      2020. Probed 2026-09-17 — the ZIP still downloads (HTTP 200, 550,498 bytes).
    probed:
      url: https://www.onlinenic.com/en/public/upload/down/20181015/1539576471.zip
      status: 200
      bytes: 550498
      content_type: application/zip
  - name: OnlineNIC Pricing Importer
    language: PHP
    kind: platform-module
    platform: WHMCS
    official: true
    registry: direct-download
    url: null
    docs: https://www.onlinenic.com/en/Module/index/17.html
    version: null
    published: '2017-12-11'
    version_note: >-
      The provider's module page announces it ("Released Dec 11, 2017") but publishes no version number
      and the download is behind the reseller control panel, so no version could be read. null here
      means checked-and-nothing-to-record, not unchecked.
    note: Companion to OnlineNIC Pro; bulk-imports the domain cost CSV and sets selling prices.
  - name: pezhvak/onlinenic-api
    language: PHP
    framework: Laravel
    official: false
    registry: packagist
    url: https://packagist.org/packages/pezhvak/onlinenic-api
    repository: https://github.com/Pezhvak/onlinenic-api
    version: v1.0.8
    published: '2020-12-07'
    version_note: Read from packagist.org/packages/pezhvak/onlinenic-api.json (unauthenticated).
    downloads_total: 331
    stars: 3
    releases: 7
    first_published: '2018-12-28'
    note: >-
      Community library, NOT published by OnlineNIC. Its author states it exists because OnlineNIC
      shipped no library for API v4. It is the only package anywhere that covers the current REST API,
      and it has been unmaintained since December 2020. Recorded for completeness and explicitly marked
      official:false — it does not count toward first-party SDK coverage.
first_party_count: 3
third_party_count: 1
currency_finding: >-
  Every first-party package predates the current API. The SDK (2015) targets the deprecated 3.4 socket
  protocol; the WHMCS module (2019) drives the same socket protocol; the API it is meant to wrap moved
  to HTTPS/JSON and reached build 4.0.9 in March 2020. A reseller adopting OnlineNIC today either
  integrates the current API with no first-party client at all, or uses a first-party client against a
  protocol the vendor's own documentation marks deprecated.
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com