On 10/15/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Norman Franke</b> <<a href="mailto:norman@myasd.com">norman@myasd.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div style=""><br><div><div>On Oct 15, 2007, at 2:42 PM, <a href="mailto:asterisk-biz-request@lists.digium.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">asterisk-biz-request@lists.digium.com</a>
wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><p style="margin: 0px;"><font style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;" face="Helvetica" size="3">
I think everyone should be comparing the cost per query against competition</font></p> <p style="margin: 0px;"><font style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;" face="Helvetica" size="3">
that will actually be running, not against <a href="http://got-name.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">got-name.com</a>'s $.015 ... I</font></p> <p style="margin: 0px;"><font style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;" face="Helvetica" size="3">
haven't done the research, but what do some of the others charge? What are</font></p> <p style="margin: 0px;"><font style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;" face="Helvetica" size="3">
some of the monthly minimums or signup fees which have been mentioned, and</font></p> <p style="margin: 0px;"><font style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;" face="Helvetica" size="3">
what is the price-per-query if you reach those minimums or want to pay those</font></p> <p style="margin: 0px;"><font style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;" face="Helvetica" size="3">
signup fees?<span> </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></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></blockquote><div><br><br>When I sent it out for quotes the last time, the price was about 3/5 of a cent per lookup, with no minimum volume.<br><br></div></div><br>