<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Oct 15, 2007, at 2:42 PM, <A href="mailto:asterisk-biz-request@lists.digium.com">asterisk-biz-request@lists.digium.com</A> wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">I think everyone should be comparing the cost per query against competition</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">that will actually be running, not against got-name.com's $.015 ... I</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">haven't done the research, but what do some of the others charge? What are</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">some of the monthly minimums or signup fees which have been mentioned, and</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">what is the price-per-query if you reach those minimums or want to pay those</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">signup fees?<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV>I priced this a while ago for my company. I was getting quotes in the 3 cents per query, as I recall. So 4 cents per query would make that company irrelevant.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>We would do a lot of queries per month, but caching is a must (unless the price is so sub-one cent). We likely wouldn't be interested in 300K lookups per month. A flat rate would be best, but I can't see us paying more than $300 to $500 per month for this service.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Norman Franke</DIV><DIV>Chief Software Architect</DIV><DIV>ASD, Inc.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV></BODY></HTML>