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http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/DID+X
The information below was posted by DIDx or a person from within DIDx. It is therefore recommended that you take it with a grain of salt. It is what they WANT DIDx to be , not what DIDx reallyt is , nor really offers.
View DIDX. www.didx.org began in August 2005 as a beta project for DID exchange over SIP, H323 and IAX2. By 2006, the new website is http://www.didx.net/.
'DIDX' is also known as DIDXchange. DIDX is an example of a wholesale DID exchange. It is a service provided by Super Technologies, Inc. and the invention of Rehan Ahmed. It is the wholesale marketplace, community, and exchange for buying, selling and/or trading DID, Direct Inward Dialing. DIDxchange is considered an example of a digital ecosystem or business ecosystem, an open, demand driven collaborative environment where each digital species (networked agents such as incumbent, CLEC, IP PBX seller, contact center, Instant Messenger Provider, wireless operator, Internet Service Provider, application service provider) 'is proactive and responsive for its own benefit or profit' in the trade of DID, direct inward dialing. The constantly evolving DIDXchange environment supports cooperation, flexibility, scalability, DID pool sharing via the DIDX API and use of open and adaptive technologies such as SIP. It is a business model innovation evolved from the new global digital economy.
Wholesale voice members complete a seven step interoperability process resulting in an instant interconnect with 4700 other wholesale voice members to buy and sell DID (phone numbers). Any of the 4700 wholesale VoIP DIDX members may search according to its requirement of number of channels, calling card use granted, flat rate and number of included minutes, codecs supported, and vendor rating. Vendor rating is scaled 1 to 10 with 10 as the highest. Vendor rating is determined by length of membership, quality and quantity of its DID for sale on DIDX, references, DUNS report, financials and other criteria.
Voice industry members in February 2007 are from over 200 nations providing millions of DID from 53 countries: Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, China, Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, El Salvador, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, UK, USA, Greece, Guatemala, Italy, Jamaica, Honduras, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Hungary, Iran, Latvia, Lithuania, Ireland, Israel, Malaysia, Mexico, Peru, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, Poland, Russia, Portugal, Reunion Island, Romania, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Spain, Sweden, Singapore, South Africa, and Venezuela.
The concept of DIDXchange was nominated for the 2005 and 2006 http://www.pasha.org.pk PASHA Best Communication Product award and Internet Telephony Excellence Award 2006. It was nominated for the http://www.apicta.com Asia Pacific ICT Best Communication Product award in 2006 and the http://wca.totaltele.com/Custom_13291.stm World Communication Changemaker Award List in 2006. (Who are these organizations anyway?)
== External links ==
DIDX Claims are great, however their main page says "NO MEMBERSJP FEE"
YEA RIGHT!
Their FAQ then say
Question: Is there any membership fee?
Answer: No membership fee. Inactive members do not do business on DIDX. To do business, one must activate the account first by following steps at http://www.didx.net/interop. Each active basic member starts with 2 free DID's. For the buyer, a minimum of 50 DID's purchased is required. For new sellers, as of March 25, 2008, a minimum of 50 international DIDs for sale or a minimum of 500 USA/UK DID is required. Otherwise, a monthly minimum service fee of $50 will apply per month in each of the 3 cases listed.
This is completely lame as they again state "no Membership fee" as if to support the lie on their main page
Furthermore these guys have been known to send out "Legal Notices" by what claim to be attorneys in Florida, and well just turn them in to the Florida Bar as has been done before. Their attotrney , if attorney, is most probably in Pakistan, and know nothing of USA law anyway.
It is obvious their ethics are not those if a USA business as well. I think the have a couple non pakistani employees who answer phone calls but these guys are about as crooked as it gets. They ARE PAKISANI and hide behind a few non Pakistani employees. They have even deleted similar comments off of this Wiki, to hide their misdeeds.
Tis same company was suspected of hijacking a domain similar to their company name in about 2002 and it was all done from Pakistan, and most probably associated with Arif Durani the Pakistani convicted in the Iran Contra Affair Scandall, and I think is now again in a federal prison for terrorist acts.
http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/DID+X
The information below was posted by DIDx or a person from within DIDx. It is therefore recommended that you take it with a grain of salt. It is what they WANT DIDx to be , not what DIDx reallyt is , nor really offers.
View DIDX. www.didx.org began in August 2005 as a beta project for DID exchange over SIP, H323 and IAX2. By 2006, the new website is http://www.didx.net/.
'DIDX' is also known as DIDXchange. DIDX is an example of a wholesale DID exchange. It is a service provided by Super Technologies, Inc. and the invention of Rehan Ahmed. It is the wholesale marketplace, community, and exchange for buying, selling and/or trading DID, Direct Inward Dialing. DIDxchange is considered an example of a digital ecosystem or business ecosystem, an open, demand driven collaborative environment where each digital species (networked agents such as incumbent, CLEC, IP PBX seller, contact center, Instant Messenger Provider, wireless operator, Internet Service Provider, application service provider) 'is proactive and responsive for its own benefit or profit' in the trade of DID, direct inward dialing. The constantly evolving DIDXchange environment supports cooperation, flexibility, scalability, DID pool sharing via the DIDX API and use of open and adaptive technologies such as SIP. It is a business model innovation evolved from the new global digital economy.
Wholesale voice members complete a seven step interoperability process resulting in an instant interconnect with 4700 other wholesale voice members to buy and sell DID (phone numbers). Any of the 4700 wholesale VoIP DIDX members may search according to its requirement of number of channels, calling card use granted, flat rate and number of included minutes, codecs supported, and vendor rating. Vendor rating is scaled 1 to 10 with 10 as the highest. Vendor rating is determined by length of membership, quality and quantity of its DID for sale on DIDX, references, DUNS report, financials and other criteria.
Voice industry members in February 2007 are from over 200 nations providing millions of DID from 53 countries: Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, China, Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, El Salvador, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, UK, USA, Greece, Guatemala, Italy, Jamaica, Honduras, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Hungary, Iran, Latvia, Lithuania, Ireland, Israel, Malaysia, Mexico, Peru, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, Poland, Russia, Portugal, Reunion Island, Romania, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Spain, Sweden, Singapore, South Africa, and Venezuela.
The concept of DIDXchange was nominated for the 2005 and 2006 http://www.pasha.org.pk PASHA Best Communication Product award and Internet Telephony Excellence Award 2006. It was nominated for the http://www.apicta.com Asia Pacific ICT Best Communication Product award in 2006 and the http://wca.totaltele.com/Custom_13291.stm World Communication Changemaker Award List in 2006. (Who are these organizations anyway?)
== External links ==
- Corporate website http://www.supertec.com
- DIDX wholesale global phone number exchange http://www.didx.net
- Retail enhanced call forwarding http://www.virtualphoneline.com
- DIDX FAQ http://www.didx.net/faq
- List of phone numbers available http://www.didx.net/did
- 7 step interop testing for instant interconnect with 4700 global ITSPs, 50 wholesale DID/month minimum requirement http://www.didx.net/interop
DIDX Claims are great, however their main page says "NO MEMBERSJP FEE"
YEA RIGHT!
Their FAQ then say
Question: Is there any membership fee?
Answer: No membership fee. Inactive members do not do business on DIDX. To do business, one must activate the account first by following steps at http://www.didx.net/interop. Each active basic member starts with 2 free DID's. For the buyer, a minimum of 50 DID's purchased is required. For new sellers, as of March 25, 2008, a minimum of 50 international DIDs for sale or a minimum of 500 USA/UK DID is required. Otherwise, a monthly minimum service fee of $50 will apply per month in each of the 3 cases listed.
This is completely lame as they again state "no Membership fee" as if to support the lie on their main page
Furthermore these guys have been known to send out "Legal Notices" by what claim to be attorneys in Florida, and well just turn them in to the Florida Bar as has been done before. Their attotrney , if attorney, is most probably in Pakistan, and know nothing of USA law anyway.
It is obvious their ethics are not those if a USA business as well. I think the have a couple non pakistani employees who answer phone calls but these guys are about as crooked as it gets. They ARE PAKISANI and hide behind a few non Pakistani employees. They have even deleted similar comments off of this Wiki, to hide their misdeeds.
Tis same company was suspected of hijacking a domain similar to their company name in about 2002 and it was all done from Pakistan, and most probably associated with Arif Durani the Pakistani convicted in the Iran Contra Affair Scandall, and I think is now again in a federal prison for terrorist acts.
Comments
333Lies and deceptions, be careful!
My first Experience with DIDx was after buying my first DID it Did not work . Susan Bowen (or Bowman??) Indicated to me that "we do not have time to support DIDs when we only make one dollar off of it". I stopped using them.
After a year or so I figured DIDx had matured and my second experience with DIDx was that they changed their word and tried to charge me. They did not clearly state that there was a membership fee. Their Main Page at the time Said, "No Membership Fee". After discovering the membership fee they said I could list or buy DIDs. According to the FAQs at the time they said I needed to list 20 DIDs. Unfortunately after listing 20 DIDs they said because they were North American DIDs that I had to list 50. I told them that was inconsistent with their own web site , and that in fact at the time the main page said "NO MEMBERSHIP FEE". They canceled my account including all for sale and/or sold DIDs and purchased DIDs. I began posting my true experiences on web forums, and soon thereafter received a letter from what appeared to be a Florida Attorney. The only problem is that I called the Florida Bar Association , and this person was not a member of the Florida Bar! Besides, NO ATTORNEY, NOR COURT IN THE USA HAS THE RIGHT TO CENSOR MY EXPERIENCES, NOR MY OPINIONS. According to the Florida Bar they were hit with action against them for "Unlicensed Practice of Law"! These guys thought they could scare me into retracting my statements!
It also used to be and I am not sure that it is still the case that sellers had NO OBLIGATION to remain in the system, and based on their current fee structure a seller could easily begin losing money to keep a few active DIDs on the system, thereby forcing the seller to cancel all DIDs to prevent a loss on DIDx. One could lose their DIDs!
Here is an example of their current deceptions as of December 23 2007:
Main Page
No membership fee
Money back guarantee
Free API
Low monthly rates
Buy numbers for your VoIP service
Numbers of 54+ countries
Be a global service provider instantly
Automatic DID provisioning
36 hours free DID trial
Phone numbers from 1000's of cities worldwide
Looking deeper into the FAQs they say:
Question: Is there any membership fee?
Answer: No membership fee. Inactive members do not do business on DIDX. To do business, one must activate the account first by following steps at http://www.didx.net/interop. Each active basic member starts with 2 free DID's. A minimum of 20 DID's purchased or 50 DID's for sale must be in each DIDX account. Otherwise, a monthly minimum service fee of $20 will apply.
(This above statement is Misleading because they say "No Membership fee without stating "IF...")
After Sign up and Log in you can finally see:
As a buyer, we will have a total of 50 purchased DID numbers OR be charged $50 per month minimum service charge. If we sell, we will have at least 100 for sale DID numbers in our account at all times, OR will be charged $100 per month service charge.
(this information conflicts with the previous statement in their FAQs, and you only see it after registering , if you look!
Further deceptions include that they supposedly offer "peering" to all of their DID, but this is just for the Press releases , as they apparently offer no ENUM database for those "peering " calls. All they really offer is an open SIP proxy that accepts SIP invites from any address. They KNOW that is not "peerering" as they state, where is the ENUM database guys? That is a lot different from peering. If they truly peered they would immediately reject non resident calls (as they do only AFTER playing a recording) , or better yet create an ENUM database of their DIDs or at least use e164.org. That is just scratching the surface of ongoing wild claims that DIDx makes.
These guys have had many people who had sold DIDs and WERE NEVER PAID! I have talked to several of these people. Also you can make a "request" for payment only 45 days AFTER they owe you $100.00 or more. For amounts less than $500 dollars they pay via PayPal, so what is thee issue, as it costs them ZERO to pay you if they owe you less than $500.00 .
These guys really need to clean up their act.
BTW I should also mention that I believe they partially do not like me as I own a domain that I believe they want, and I believe they probably had some involvement in hijacking that domain a few years ago.
Mark