Comments on: Startup in 7 Days – Day two (Registrations)

By: seb

seb — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:28:44 +0000

I did it from an Optus Store. The plan is the cheapest one they had, the $5 per month, on the month-to-month contract (cancel any time). You need to ask for a “special number” and there is a charge for this depending on how ’special’ the number is. Something like 0400111111 would cost a fair bit, fortunately they don’t seem to regard phone-words as ’special’ so mine only cost $22 (once off). Be wary though, Optus charged my account an additional $50 “search fee” which was not explained to me in the store. I was able to get this reversed but keep in mind it might pop up on your account later.

By: redlava

redlava — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:09:10 +0000

Seb, I’m very interested in how you were able to get a telco to find you a number and offer you a $5 a month account. I was looking for a similar solution a couple of years ago and choosing my own number was out of the question and as for the plans… they were $29.95 a month minimum. Can you let us know how you achieved this and exactly which plan you are signed up to? I assume you did this in an Optus store, did you have to ask for anything special at all?

By: seb

seb — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 19:38:53 +0000

As I needed an SSL certificate for the credit card payment system I couldn’t go with a private domain. The registration details had to match those on the certificate.

By: Walts

Walts — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 19:23:01 +0000

Seb – noting you’re operating under an existing business structure, did you opt for a Private Domain or any DNS Hosting for your Domain name set-up?

By: Stephen Hamilton

Stephen Hamilton — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 11:55:54 +0000

Fascinating stuff, Seb! I’m cheering for you!

By: Ian Harris

Ian Harris — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 08:34:32 +0000

I would not worry about a structure yet.You keep the IP presently and we’ll organise to assign or sell it to a structure when it’s right to go.

By: Manny

Manny — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 23:45:32 +0000

That’s actually still pretty good, I mean, for people not a $500 challenge! $77 for a “premium” number is peanuts! Let’s not tell Optus, though!
Have a productive day, mate!

By: seb

seb — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 23:40:04 +0000

I was lucky, it was my 3rd choice of about 10. (However my 1st choice would have cost $77 to register, which would have hurt a bit more!) Regarding the time, I write each blog between 4 and 5pm and release them in the next morning at 8am. Thanks for commenting!

By: Manny

Manny — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 23:32:51 +0000

Awesome you could get the phone number you wanted!!
I’ll be interested to know how you go with creating your own GSM gateway!
Are you writing each day about the previous day or, at 9:30 (possibly 10:30 where you are)you have already done all of the above?