[asterisk-biz] Obtaining DIDs

[Rusty Dekema]

For what it's worth, I think that it is probably a good idea for a
business such as DIDx to exist. However, I think that DIDx needs to
radically change their business practices and the way in which they
represent and market themselves in order for anyone to take them
seriously and in order for them to really serve the market in a useful
way and possibly make some money while they're at it.

People with excess facilities and people who run DID businesses can
sometimes easily provide DIDs, and people sometimes need to buy some
DIDs in various locations. Great. But DIDx tries to mask everything in
fancy sounding rhetoric in order to make it sound like you are buying
a DID from them that they are in control of and can provide some kind
of meaningful (and by meaningful I do not mean "if it stops working,
you get your 30 cents back") guarantee that said DIDs will actually
work and keep working and not fall out from under you at the whim of
some company over which DID has very little, if any, influence.

I think that if DIDx represented themselves in a more open and frank
manner as an eBay-like entity; a place that brokers deals between DID
buyers and DID sellers, they would get a lot farther than they will
with their current approach.

I know that some of the criticism of DIDx on this list might sound
shrill or unwarranted to some people, but as long as DIDx keeps trying
to act like they are in a position to exercise some kind of actual
quality control over the DIDs they broker, I say that the critics are
mostly justified in their criticism.

-Rusty