nice to have you back.
Regards
On Saturday, February 22, 2003, at 04:20 PM, Ryan Brown wrote:
I doubt many of you care that someone is coming back to OpenSRS, but I thought I would send this to the list anyways to help stop anyone thinking about leaving OpenSRS.
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Here is my story…
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February 2002 I signed up to SRSPlus, the reason, domains for $6-8 a year. I submitted my payment of $500 (which was much higher than the $250 OpenSRS required) to fund my account and began immediately registering domains thru their web site interface – something that works fine if your domains are all managed by you.
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SRSPlus does not provide scripts but just an API, and I hate programming. So in order to use SRSPlus like OpenSRS I had to pay someone to develop scripts for me. I choose William X Walsh, someone I considered as a friend at that time. A few months based and my SRSPlus experience began to turn awful. Mr. Walsh never provided me with scripts to use SRSPlus after being paid (and to this day almost a year later still nothing) so I was unable to sell domains to the public as they would not be able to manage them. Then SRSPlus decided to raise prices, which made them more expensive than OpenSRS unless you sold more than 11 domains a month. So I got pretty ticked off and was getting ready to move back to OpenSRS (surely the best domain reseller program out there for what they provide the RSP).
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But then… January 2003, I received an email from Ron at Dodora offering me domains for $6.50 a year – something that was too good to be true. I asked him about scripts, and they provided none, just the API, and after learning from SRSPlus I quickly told him no. He then told me they hired a company to develop scripts which would be provided to the reseller, so I got excited and sent in my paper. They had no minimum payment, so there was little to lose. Well the scripts got delayed as the programmers (I spoke with them and they were developing the software, adding new features and kept asking for my opinion on what was needed, which was nice), so I kept using the web interface to manage domains. Fortunately clients were able to modify their domain at the Dodora web site, something SRSPlus failed to offer. I used all my credits from my original payment and sent them more money over PayPal. I started using those funds and the scripts were almost ready, boy was I excited. Then one day I tried to access dodora.com and it was down (this was 3 weeks ago, and it is still down). I run servers and know there is occasional downtime, so I thought nothing of it. But it was still down the next day, and the day after that. I send Ron emails, but they bounced as their network was down. I called them, but the phone just rang busy. Nothing for 3 weeks… I emailed the programmers and was told their data center burned down and they would be back up soon.
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Today, February 22. I talked to a old time buddy on IRC about all the problems I had and he suggested I go back to OpenSRS, he even offered to help me get back up and running with some of his scripts he developed. Tired with all my problems trying to get the best deal, I have decided to go back to OpenSRS (and I hope any of you guys who are considering leaving OpenSRS decide to stay). The support, software, and community of OpenSRS is just to great to overcome a few dollars savings per domain.
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If anyone has any questions please feel free to ask, as I cannot explain the amount as stress, frustration, etc I went thru during the past year and I would hate to see anyone else go thru it.
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Ryan Brown
The Burgh Live, LLC
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