directi.com seems to be offering a very good reseller scheme. It offers:

1. Domain for $6.99
2. Can have your very own domain reseller
3. Brandable Control Panel
4. Email and domain forwarding service
5. Very good documentation
6. best of all FREE!!!

I wonder who have use it before and it'd be great if you could share your experiences. Also if anyone ever have successfully integrate it with Modernbill?

email and domain forwarding is free ?

its not AFAIK :) after adding those services its somewhere around $8, unless they are offering something new?

You can purchase Whois.Cart() for $35 (one time) and get a Directi reseller account that allows $6.75 registrations and $6.49 transfers.

http://whoiscart.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=3994

http://whoiscart.net/

Problem is we're currently using moderbill. A check in MB's forum clearly showed that MB's rather reluctant to support Directi's API integration. Whois's a great piece of work and defnitely more attractively prriced, but to switch to another billing solution will be waste on our investment as our MB license is an owned one. Thanks for the info spoony :)

Don't worry... Some smart a... will come up with a Module for Modernbill and will charge some good money for it. I personally would develope the API for it... It is wanted :D

But I'm not a Programmer so...

Though the email and domain forwarding is not free, they are cheap $0.49 each/year

I switch to DirectI from Onlinenic for using the Whoiscart software. It works perfectly.

Their support and their price are better than onlinenic

Originally posted by Francisco
Don't worry... Some smart a... will come up with a Module for Modernbill and will charge some good money for it. I personally would develope the API for it... It is wanted :D

But I'm not a Programmer so...

I really hope so :D There have been increasing request for this to MB. But I don't think they'll budge unless Directi is gonna generate a 'beneficial arrangements' with MB, if you know what I mean :stickout: That's the arrangements with Enom anyway.

If you look into MB documentation, programmers can develop an API pretty much easily, the problem lies in the integration code within MB's Zend encoded script. So definitely MB need to do their part.

Originally posted by mangosky
I really hope so :D There have been increasing request for this to MB. But I don't think they'll budge unless Directi is gonna generate a 'beneficial arrangements' with MB, if you know what I mean :stickout: That's the arrangements with Enom anyway.

If you look into MB documentation, programmers can develop an API pretty much easily, the problem lies in the integration code within MB's Zend encoded script. So definitely MB need to do their part.

Modernbill needs to give the Source Code to Directi or they have to code it (Mb). But we all know how lazy they are to do that, they get $$$ from Enom so they preffer that to having another Registrar Module... :(

FraudGate recently developed an API to call new clients and Confirm New Orders maybe he could do it... I don't know if he has the Source thought.

Originally posted by lindasolutions
Though the email and domain forwarding is not free, they are cheap $0.49 each/year

I switch to DirectI from Onlinenic for using the Whoiscart software. It works perfectly.

Their support and their price are better than onlinenic

so its $7.48 compared to $6.95 enom except enom required large prepay to get that pricing.

if you compare $7.48 with enom's free $8.95 then directi wins :)

hmmm .... I've tried uploading a $10 fund into my account (Directi) via paypal. I later realized the actual uploaded amount is only $9.38. There seems to be an uploading fee. I wonder they worked out (percentage or flat fee) ? Does anyone knows about it? I've send them an email about it, just like a min ago. I hope it's just a flat fee coz if based by percentages, it's like 6.2%?:confused:

enom charges %3 , not sure with directi could be flat fee but %6.2 is way high

Originally posted by mangosky
hmmm .... I've tried uploading a $10 fund into my account (Directi) via paypal. I later realized the actual uploaded amount is only $9.38. There seems to be an uploading fee. I wonder they worked out (percentage or flat fee) ? Does anyone knows about it? I've send them an email about it, just like a min ago. I hope it's just a flat fee coz if based by percentages, it's like 6.2%?:confused:


That is the amount charge to paypal merchant, they shift the payment responsibility to us. Don't know whether it violate TOS of paypal???

Yes Directi takes out fees from your PayPal deposit. This is also an option for sub-accounts under your Directi reseller account.

Reply from Directi:

Hello,

Kindly note that $0.62 are the paypal processing charges.

Regards

Charu


I've send them again another email asking if it's a flat fee or based on percentage. I'll keep you updated

both enom and directi charge a fee for funding your account.

it seems it violate paypal's TOS but not creditcard's

Originally posted by Bashar
so its $7.48 compared to $6.95 enom except enom required large prepay to get that pricing.

Bashar, we discussed this before here (http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=262815), but it seems you didn't read it ;) :

I'm afraid your comparision is not fair/accurate. For low volumes (prepay only $75) the pricing you mention is right.

But let's see what happen if we talk about a $6.95 eNom account:

eNom: You prepay $6,950, so each domain is $6,95.

Directi: You prepay $6,490 (lower deposit, by the way)

com/net/org: $6,49 + $0.15 = $6,64 (lower than eNom)
biz/info/us: $6,75 + $0.15 = $6,90 (still lower than eNom)

That's it. :)

Greetings,

Originally posted by mangosky
hmmm .... I've tried uploading a $10 fund into my account (Directi) via paypal. I later realized the actual uploaded amount is only $9.38. There seems to be an uploading fee. I wonder they worked out (percentage or flat fee) ? Does anyone knows about it? I've send them an email about it, just like a min ago. I hope it's just a flat fee coz if based by percentages, it's like 6.2%?:confused:

Indeed. It's $0.30 processing fees + certain percentage:

https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_display-fees-outside

... so it's no way "6.2%". ;)

i was comparing 6.75 vs 6.95 (but enom requires large prepay) :)

Ok I got it, the workout's like these:

From Paypal website:

Receive Funds Free 2.2% + $0.30 USD to 2.9% + $0.30 USD

If you receive a payment from a user in another country, an additional cross border fee will be charged. The cross border fee is an additional 1% for U.S. Dollar payments and 0.5% for Canadian Dollar, Euro, Pound Sterling, and Yen payments. This cross border fee is currently waived for Canadian sellers receiving payments from U.S. buyers.


So that means 3.2% + 0.30 cents. For a $10, that'll work out to 0.62 cents. For a $100, the deduction will be $3.50.

hmmm...

With Directi plus the 3.2% of PP and forwarding and everything else that enom has would be $6.85 just $0.10 lower than Enom :stickout:

But who got the best Interface? Enom... It is your choice.

Originally posted by Francisco
With Directi plus the 3.2% of PP and forwarding and everything else that enom has would be $6.85 just $0.10 lower than Enom :stickout:

But who got the best Interface? Enom... It is your choice.

Considering Directi's lower minimum funds, it is definitely the best bet for starters. On the interface, people's opinion differs. For myself, Directi's interface is far much better than Enom's simply nameserver modification only feature.

Can't find anything less with Directi compared to Enom, except for it's incapability of ModernBill's integration :stickout:

Originally posted by Eboy
Indeed. It's $0.30 processing fees + certain percentage:

https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_display-fees-outside

... so it's no way "6.2%". ;)

Does "outside" mean there is a fee involved for sending funds to Directi account outside the US? ? Maybe in India? (I guess the that is the place, isn't it?)

Directi deposits your money less their PayPal fees.

I have an Idea to make ModernBill work with DirectI by using ModernBill's EmailRegister feature, make your own script that will check an email account on your server and get the values from that email to create the account using DirectI's API

reg fee at directi is more expensive than enom if you take email forward and dns into account.