Welcome back Ryan....I am glad you realised that if you give peanuts you will get monkeys :)
That said...I have *never* heard any complaint about: William X Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wxWeb Enterprises wxSoft Software for Providers http://wxsoft.com/ Is this the same person you are talking about...I find it hard to accept that he has been unprofessional (maybe some things have changed, but this is a shock! if it is not skewed) I wonder what really happened, since every thing I have known/heard about Mr Walsh, says the opposite. :( -- Best regards, Ashish Pawaskar ********************************************************************* Internet Wizards - http://www.inwiz.com ********************************************************************* Sunday, February 23, 2003, 2:50:36 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: RB> I doubt many of you care that someone is coming back to OpenSRS, but I RB> thought I would send this to the list anyways to help stop anyone thinking RB> about leaving OpenSRS. RB> Here is my story. RB> February 2002 I signed up to SRSPlus, the reason, domains for $6-8 a year. I RB> submitted my payment of $500 (which was much higher than the $250 OpenSRS RB> required) to fund my account and began immediately registering domains thru RB> their web site interface - something that works fine if your domains are all RB> managed by you. RB> SRSPlus does not provide scripts but just an API, and I hate programming. So RB> in order to use SRSPlus like OpenSRS I had to pay someone to develop scripts RB> for me. I choose William X Walsh, someone I considered as a friend at that RB> time. A few months based and my SRSPlus experience began to turn awful. Mr. RB> Walsh never provided me with scripts to use SRSPlus after being paid (and to RB> this day almost a year later still nothing) so I was unable to sell domains RB> to the public as they would not be able to manage them. Then SRSPlus decided RB> to raise prices, which made them more expensive than OpenSRS unless you sold RB> more than 11 domains a month. So I got pretty ticked off and was getting RB> ready to move back to OpenSRS (surely the best domain reseller program out RB> there for what they provide the RSP). RB> But then. January 2003, I received an email from Ron at Dodora offering me RB> domains for $6.50 a year - something that was too good to be true. I asked RB> him about scripts, and they provided none, just the API, and after learning RB> from SRSPlus I quickly told him no. He then told me they hired a company to RB> develop scripts which would be provided to the reseller, so I got excited RB> and sent in my paper. They had no minimum payment, so there was little to RB> lose. Well the scripts got delayed as the programmers (I spoke with them and RB> they were developing the software, adding new features and kept asking for RB> my opinion on what was needed, which was nice), so I kept using the web RB> interface to manage domains. Fortunately clients were able to modify their RB> domain at the Dodora web site, something SRSPlus failed to offer. I used all RB> my credits from my original payment and sent them more money over PayPal. I RB> started using those funds and the scripts were almost ready, boy was I RB> excited. Then one day I tried to access dodora.com and it was down (this was RB> 3 weeks ago, and it is still down). I run servers and know there is RB> occasional downtime, so I thought nothing of it. But it was still down the RB> next day, and the day after that. I send Ron emails, but they bounced as RB> their network was down. I called them, but the phone just rang busy. Nothing RB> for 3 weeks. I emailed the programmers and was told their data center burned RB> down and they would be back up soon. RB> Today, February 22. I talked to a old time buddy on IRC about all the RB> problems I had and he suggested I go back to OpenSRS, he even offered to RB> help me get back up and running with some of his scripts he developed. Tired RB> with all my problems trying to get the best deal, I have decided to go back RB> to OpenSRS (and I hope any of you guys who are considering leaving OpenSRS RB> decide to stay). The support, software, and community of OpenSRS is just to RB> great to overcome a few dollars savings per domain. RB> If anyone has any questions please feel free to ask, as I cannot explain the RB> amount as stress, frustration, etc I went thru during the past year and I RB> would hate to see anyone else go thru it. RB> Ryan Brown RB> The Burgh Live, LLC
