With all other things said.. you might want a professional service for this like <a href="http://targusinfo.com">targusinfo.com</a><br><br>Maintaining and running an operation like a cname web lookup thing is REALLY high overhead in terms of web traffic etc
<br><br>What happens when you get 30 ITSP/clients pulling 1000 calls each or 100000 calls each per day..<br><br>that can easily go up to 1 mill requests per day , <br><br>How will you pay for the bandwith/hardware/failover/load balance etc hardware for all this ?
<br><br>or if you are going to charge then why reinvent the wheel.<br><br><a href="http://targusinfo.com">targusinfo.com</a> is what we would use.. <br><br>Cname lookup is a really controversial matter , no one wants to absorb the costs , that is why some TELCOS charge
4.95 for callerid ( its basically the lookup service they are paying for) ..<br><br>CNAME lookups is also not mandatory for TELCOS so some do it some don't , but FREE cname is just not going to happen untill some one has a Return on Investment strategy for this..
<br><br><br>Take a look at Free 800 systems that went down , Any venture needs a capital source of income..<br><br>my 0.02 <br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/20/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Robert Norton - SophMedia LLC
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<p><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;">Hey Guys,<br>
I'm glad to see this ignited some discussion.<br>
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I definitely understand there's some legal implications involved, both on
a privacy level, and fraud prevention. Obviously an end-user (ie: the person
controlling a listing) has to consent to some sort of release resolving the
privacy concerns. I'm somewhat aware of the legal implications involved
with storing such personally identifiable information (or whatever the legal
term is) and have a concern in making sure such issues are resolved.<br>
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In reality, how is it efficient for every provider to be running their own
database? In my mind, this leaves the horribly evident inaccuracies, and even efficiency
issues. Thank God these accuracies aren't integral to the operations of
telephony systems.<br>
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<p><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;">I do understand there is a price to pay for such infrastructure,
and I believe that it's obvious the telephony world is riddled with
racketeering, price gouging ventures, including companies that charge nearly a
$0.01 for a lookup. I realize the following analogy is poor, but in mind this
is as close as a internet search engine charging for a basic search query.
Infact a basic internet query is much more complex, much more costly (ie: the infrastructure
of said systems), and yet self-subsidizing.</span></font></p>
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And to the poster who suggested that I was implying scrapping the results from
<a href="http://411.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">411.com</a>, this is definitely not even a remote idea in my mind at all. The basis
for my idea was a open, moderated, database that was user controlled and
self-subsidized. <br>
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<p><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;">I know this is way off topic, but I really feel that the
telecom industry as a whole, and I'm sure I'm not the only one with
this belief, is horribly bloated, running on business models that are clearly 30
years outdated. It is 2007, and with the help of the internet, the exchange of
information, these telcos now have real, global competition, and real issues to
deal with.<br>
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Anyways guys, I'm curious to hear your thoughts.</span></font></p>
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