Connect Openprovider

Connect your Openprovider account to InfraNest to manage your domains, DNS, and SSL certificates from one place — this article is for anyone who registers or manages domains through Openprovider.

Overview

• One connection covers Domains, DNS, and Certificates — you don't need to connect each separately.
• Openprovider is a wholesale registrar built for managing a large portfolio, not just a handful of domains. If you manage domains for clients, InfraNest imports your whole portfolio — even thousands of domains — a page at a time.
• Because Openprovider accounts are prepaid, keeping an eye on your balance matters more here than with other registrars.

NoteBefore you connect, you need a dedicated Openprovider user set up for API access, with two-factor authentication turned off for that user and InfraNest's IP address allowed. See Set up Openprovider API access first — it only takes a few minutes, and it determines whether the connection will work at all.

Connect Openprovider

1. Go to Integrations and open Openprovider.
2. Give the connection an Account label so you can recognise it later. This is Optional, but worth doing if you have more than one Openprovider account.
3. Enter the API username and password of the user you created for InfraNest — not your own personal login.
4. Select Connect.

InfraNest checks the credentials and starts importing your domains. If you have a large portfolio, this can take a few minutes.

What you can do once it's connected

Domains

• See your whole portfolio with renewal dates, and get told before anything expires
• Check availability and pricing across every extension Openprovider sells
• Register, transfer in, renew, and restore a domain from quarantine
• Change nameservers, DNSSEC, transfer lock, WHOIS privacy and auto-renew
• Fetch the EPP (auth) code when you're moving a domain away

DNS

• Manage zones and records for any domain, wherever you registered it
• Create and delete zones from InfraNest

Certificates

• The SSL certificates on your Openprovider account appear in your certificate inventory, with their expiry dates, alongside certificates from everywhere else

Check your account balance

Openprovider is prepaid — registrations and renewals are paid for out of your account balance. InfraNest shows that balance on the connection's page and warns you when it's running low.

WarningAn empty balance doesn't just fail one registration — it stops auto-renew across every domain you manage, including your clients'. Keep enough balance topped up to cover upcoming renewals.

Tips

• Renewal dates. Openprovider tracks a renewal date that can differ from the expiry date shown at the registry. InfraNest uses the renewal date, because that's the one you actually need to act on.
• Changing a domain's owner is a paid "trade" at Openprovider with its own confirmation process, so InfraNest doesn't offer it as a normal contact edit. Do this directly in the Openprovider panel.
• Certificate files can't be downloaded from InfraNest. Openprovider never holds the private key — you created the CSR, so you have it — and we don't store keys we didn't generate.
• DNS records without IDs. Openprovider identifies a record by its name, type, and value. Two records that differ only in TTL look identical to InfraNest, so they'll appear as a single row.

Troubleshooting

If InfraNest reports "Authentication/Authorization Failed", the password is the least likely cause. Check the troubleshooting list at the end of Set up Openprovider API access — the problem is almost always API access being switched off, two-factor authentication still enabled on the user, or the IP whitelist not including InfraNest's address.