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  • SexToyDave
    Registered User
    • Jul 2005
    • 98

    #1

    Phoenix Forum: Watch out for UltraDNS!

    Watch out for John Ferrel of UltraDNS at the Phoenix Forum

    At the Phoenix forum there will be a guy named John Ferrel selling services for Ultra DNS.
    Before you sign any contracts with them, be sure you talk to me!

    I had a very bad experience with them. You may decide to use their services, but I have a few things you should know about before you sign their 2 year contract.

    Dave Levine
    SEXTOY.com
    310 358 0932
  • Poppy
    Confirmed User
    • Apr 2002
    • 6254

    #2
    Wasn't John at the PHX Forum last year w/ that really cute chick? Can't remember her name, but she was really nice.
    VP Sales, Peak5Payments
    [email protected] Skype: consultpoppy
    In adult since 98'

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    • SiMpLe
      Confirmed User
      • Feb 2002
      • 3221

      #3
      I have a gazillon voice mails from them - TAKE THE HINT TOOLS
      Sean Holland
      Vice President
      OrbitalPay / Global Electronic Technology (GET)
      SKYPE: iam.sean ::: sholland at orbitalpay.com
      888-775-1500

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      • Rochard
        Jägermeister Test Pilot
        • Dec 2001
        • 75770

        #4
        Originally posted by poppy
        Wasn't John at the PHX Forum last year w/ that really cute chick? Can't remember her name, but she was really nice.
        Can't remember her name either, but here's a picture....

        Herschel Savage
        Brooklyn, NY

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        • Poppy
          Confirmed User
          • Apr 2002
          • 6254

          #5
          Originally posted by Rochard
          Can't remember her name either, but here's a picture....

          Yummy!
          VP Sales, Peak5Payments
          [email protected] Skype: consultpoppy
          In adult since 98'

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          • SexToyDave
            Registered User
            • Jul 2005
            • 98

            #6
            Originally posted by poppy
            Wasn't John at the PHX Forum last year w/ that really cute chick? Can't remember her name, but she was really nice.

            their sales girl was really hot. That is probably what got me to sign their contract.

            Meanwhile John was having sex with her and if he treats women/employees anything like he treats customers, I can see why she is no longer there. I hope she files a sexual harassment lawsuit

            Dave
            SEXTOY.com
            310 358 0932

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            • VIPimp
              Marina WILL have my babies!
              • May 2003
              • 9234

              #7
              Originally posted by SiMpLe
              I have a gazillon voice mails from them - TAKE THE HINT TOOLS
              yea no shit... I wouldnt do biz with them just because of the amount of calls/msgs they have left me.

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              • andrej_NDC
                Registered User
                • May 2004
                • 7760

                #8
                Wanna tell us the story? What was the problem with their servise?

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                • SexToyDave
                  Registered User
                  • Jul 2005
                  • 98

                  #9
                  Originally posted by VIPimp
                  yea no shit... I wouldnt do biz with them just because of the amount of calls/msgs they have left me.
                  Funny, they never call me back anymore.

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                  • Devils Advocate
                    Registered User
                    • Feb 2006
                    • 59

                    #10
                    Originally posted by poppy
                    Yummy!
                    ^^ what he said!
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                    • xclusive
                      Too lazy to set a custom title
                      • Apr 2004
                      • 35218

                      #11
                      Originally posted by Rochard
                      Can't remember her name either, but here's a picture....

                      damn that's a nice smile

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                      • Karupted Charles
                        Confirmed User
                        • Jul 2001
                        • 1662

                        #12
                        Originally posted by VIPimp
                        yea no shit... I wouldnt do biz with them just because of the amount of calls/msgs they have left me.
                        LOL Now I dont feel alone. I get a diffrent rep every few weeks.
                        TPF 2010 "They are eating our sausages!"

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                        • SexToyDave
                          Registered User
                          • Jul 2005
                          • 98

                          #13
                          Originally posted by andrej_NDC
                          Wanna tell us the story? What was the problem with their servise?
                          They looked at my hits, IP queries, etc and from that determined that I would have 500,000 DNS queries per month and had me sign a contract for $600 per month based on that assumption.

                          For the first few months they showed my queries increasing by 30% per month and then a few months later they started showing my DNS queries doubling every month! By January they had me to over 10 million queries a month and wanted me to pay over $5000 a month. They hit me up with a new contract or huge overage bills. Meanwhile, my real traffic was up a little, but nothing compared to what they claimed.

                          All attempts to find out where they are getting all that traffic from or to resolve the issue was met with silence and confusion.

                          Finally I was able to shut them off (and let Jupiter hosting do my DNS for free - thank god for Poppy).

                          In February, when I was no longer pointing to them and sending them 0% of my traffic, they claimed I had over 500,000 DNS queries which is the amount they said I would have when I sent them 100% of my traffic.

                          Calls to tech support and billing generally are ignored and they have no interest in keeping me happy. They just want $$$$!!

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                          • cypocrypt
                            Confirmed User
                            • Dec 2003
                            • 1851

                            #14
                            Originally posted by SiMpLe
                            I have a gazillon voice mails from them - TAKE THE HINT TOOLS

                            LOL

                            same here...since september of last year

                            gotta love ken roby's persistence

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                            • SexToyDave
                              Registered User
                              • Jul 2005
                              • 98

                              #15
                              How to get Ultra DNS to stop calling

                              How to get Ultra DNS to stop calling.

                              Ask the sales rep:

                              "Is this the company where John Ferrel was sexually harassing the sales rep Ami?"

                              (John is VP of sales. I am not claiming he did sexually harass her. I am just saying that will scare the shit out of them.)
                              The facts: He was banging her (John and her told me that). She was working under him, and she now hates him and is no longer working there.

                              Also, ask

                              Didn't you guys do DNS for Dave at SEXTOY.com. I heard that I should contact him before working with you. What do you think he will tell me?
                              If the rep is not sure who I am or what I would say, tell the rep to call me or John Ferrel for info.

                              I guarantee they will stop calling you
                              But they may start calling me

                              Dave Levine
                              SEXTOY.com
                              310 358 0932

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                              • SiMpLe
                                Confirmed User
                                • Feb 2002
                                • 3221

                                #16
                                Originally posted by SexToyDave
                                They looked at my hits, IP queries, etc and from that determined that I would have 500,000 DNS queries per month and had me sign a contract for $600 per month based on that assumption.

                                For the first few months they showed my queries increasing by 30% per month and then a few months later they started showing my DNS queries doubling every month! By January they had me to over 10 million queries a month and wanted me to pay over $5000 a month. They hit me up with a new contract or huge overage bills. Meanwhile, my real traffic was up a little, but nothing compared to what they claimed.

                                All attempts to find out where they are getting all that traffic from or to resolve the issue was met with silence and confusion.

                                Finally I was able to shut them off (and let Jupiter hosting do my DNS for free - thank god for Poppy).

                                In February, when I was no longer pointing to them and sending them 0% of my traffic, they claimed I had over 500,000 DNS queries which is the amount they said I would have when I sent them 100% of my traffic.

                                Calls to tech support and billing generally are ignored and they have no interest in keeping me happy. They just want $$$$!!
                                Thats funny that you post this cuz I just asked Mike about them today - He never heard of them.
                                Sean Holland
                                Vice President
                                OrbitalPay / Global Electronic Technology (GET)
                                SKYPE: iam.sean ::: sholland at orbitalpay.com
                                888-775-1500

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                                • andrej_NDC
                                  Registered User
                                  • May 2004
                                  • 7760

                                  #17
                                  Originally posted by SexToyDave
                                  They looked at my hits, IP queries, etc and from that determined that I would have 500,000 DNS queries per month and had me sign a contract for $600 per month based on that assumption.

                                  For the first few months they showed my queries increasing by 30% per month and then a few months later they started showing my DNS queries doubling every month! By January they had me to over 10 million queries a month and wanted me to pay over $5000 a month. They hit me up with a new contract or huge overage bills. Meanwhile, my real traffic was up a little, but nothing compared to what they claimed.

                                  All attempts to find out where they are getting all that traffic from or to resolve the issue was met with silence and confusion.

                                  Finally I was able to shut them off (and let Jupiter hosting do my DNS for free - thank god for Poppy).

                                  In February, when I was no longer pointing to them and sending them 0% of my traffic, they claimed I had over 500,000 DNS queries which is the amount they said I would have when I sent them 100% of my traffic.

                                  Calls to tech support and billing generally are ignored and they have no interest in keeping me happy. They just want $$$$!!
                                  Thanks for the info!

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                                  • potter
                                    Confirmed User
                                    • Dec 2004
                                    • 6559

                                    #18
                                    drama is no fun unless both sides are involved.. let's get ultradns in here for some fun!

                                    p.s. bump

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                                    • SiMpLe
                                      Confirmed User
                                      • Feb 2002
                                      • 3221

                                      #19
                                      BUMP'age
                                      I want to hear from ultradns too.

                                      They must be following the threads hence they didn't call me today for the first time in months. I feel like I'm on vacation haha.
                                      Sean Holland
                                      Vice President
                                      OrbitalPay / Global Electronic Technology (GET)
                                      SKYPE: iam.sean ::: sholland at orbitalpay.com
                                      888-775-1500

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                                      • andrej_NDC
                                        Registered User
                                        • May 2004
                                        • 7760

                                        #20
                                        Originally posted by SiMpLe
                                        They must be following the threads hence they didn't call me today for the first time in months. I feel like I'm on vacation haha.

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                                        • Toolz
                                          Confirmed User
                                          • Jun 2001
                                          • 690

                                          #21
                                          Oh good maybe if I post in here they'll take us off their call list too.

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                                          • Karupted Charles
                                            Confirmed User
                                            • Jul 2001
                                            • 1662

                                            #22
                                            So they called me today and assured me we would go on the do not call list. I asked them about how they felt about the heat on GFY and they said "whathahaha8217;s gfy?" He also said Ami is still there.
                                            TPF 2010 "They are eating our sausages!"

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                                            • koreanbbque
                                              Confirmed User
                                              • Dec 2003
                                              • 688

                                              #23
                                              they've had 3 people call at least once a day for a month straight to our office here. those crazy guys.
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                                              • Why
                                                MFBA
                                                • Mar 2003
                                                • 7230

                                                #24
                                                Look at thier client list. Do you think these people made thier fortunes throwing money in a fire? Its not a waste of money. I guess youd have to actually understand DNS to understand why/how thier service can help your company.

                                                A dns server sitting at your hosts DC is not equal to hundreds of them distributed all around the world. Especially if a DDoS attack or the likes were to occur.

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                                                • Manowar
                                                  jellyfish  
                                                  • Dec 2003
                                                  • 71528

                                                  #25
                                                  thx for the info, bump for this

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                                                  • Matt_WildCash
                                                    Confirmed User
                                                    • Jan 2003
                                                    • 1699

                                                    #26
                                                    UltraDNS sales team called me at 4am twice in 2 nights. (me being in Australia). They are very persistint and after finally getting a price for there services they wanted to charge me $1700 a month WTF. For DNS. I get DNS for all of Wildcash & wildcash's free hosting servers (1800mbit of bandwidth) and all our wildcash Email services for $125 a YEAR from Nettica.

                                                    Stay away from UltraDNS they will RAPE you on fees.

                                                    Matt
                                                    Wildcash.com

                                                    Try the New XMovies.com and make more $$$ with your Traffic

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                                                    • Terenzo
                                                      Confirmed User
                                                      • Jan 2002
                                                      • 971

                                                      #27
                                                      they keep calling me, too, in the middle of the night, they never heard of different time zones, did they???
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                                                      • drama
                                                        Confirmed User
                                                        • Jul 2004
                                                        • 847

                                                        #28
                                                        Originally posted by Rochard
                                                        Can't remember her name either, but here's a picture....


                                                        wow, you sure you're not stalking her or something?

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                                                        • Ycaza
                                                          Confirmed User
                                                          • Feb 2005
                                                          • 4290

                                                          #29
                                                          Originally posted by Rochard
                                                          Can't remember her name either, but here's a picture....

                                                          her name is ami, she is a very cool chick, but i will tell you all, ultradsns is very expensive, very hard to deal with.
                                                          Caz Thrush
                                                          Head Honcho
                                                          [email protected]
                                                          http://thrushtech.com
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                                                          • Theo
                                                            HAL 9000
                                                            • May 2001
                                                            • 34515

                                                            #30
                                                            i put them on ignore

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                                                            • Theo
                                                              HAL 9000
                                                              • May 2001
                                                              • 34515

                                                              #31
                                                              1) DNS does nothing besides translating the names into IP addresses. They claim an up to 12% increase of traffic. Do you really believe your sites regarldess where they are hosted or what dns they use can miss that high % of surfers? I doubt even a 1%

                                                              2) Setting TTL as ultradns suggests in their spam emails to 1min only makes the changes to propagate faster increasing the time it takes for the surfer to load the page, because all the DNS servers will have to query the DB at least every 1 sec instead of 24 hours as most of our domains are set.

                                                              3) ultradns lies when they say they manage 34% of world DNS. This means out of 100 domains you'll randomly pick, 34 use ultradns which is far from true.

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                                                              • DatingGold
                                                                $6 PER EMAIL JOiN
                                                                • Feb 2003
                                                                • 13185

                                                                #32
                                                                Originally posted by Soul_Rebel
                                                                1) DNS does nothing besides translating the names into IP addresses. They claim an up to 12% increase of traffic. Do you really believe your sites regarldess where they are hosted or what dns they use can miss that high % of surfers? I doubt even a 1%

                                                                2) Setting TTL as ultradns suggests in their spam emails to 1min only makes the changes to propagate faster increasing the time it takes for the surfer to load the page, because all the DNS servers will have to query the DB at least every 1 sec instead of 24 hours as most of our domains are set.

                                                                3) ultradns lies when they say they manage 34% of world DNS. This means out of 100 domains you'll randomly pick, 34 use ultradns which is far from true.
                                                                I don't think 35% is right but you calculated it wrong in #3. They are saying they do 34% of overall internet DNS.
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                                                                • FreeOnes
                                                                  Confirmed User
                                                                  • Jul 2001
                                                                  • 3406

                                                                  #33
                                                                  noce thread

                                                                  lol

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                                                                  • Sneakysites
                                                                    Confirmed User
                                                                    • Jul 2003
                                                                    • 101

                                                                    #34
                                                                    those idiots have been calling me twice a day for almost a month now. I started ignoring the number and now they went to using a private caller ID tag
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                                                                    • gooddomains
                                                                      Too lazy to set a custom title
                                                                      • Jul 2003
                                                                      • 10127

                                                                      #35
                                                                      true morons

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                                                                      • Varius
                                                                        Confirmed User
                                                                        • Jun 2004
                                                                        • 6890

                                                                        #36
                                                                        I can't speak on behlf of your case Dave, that sounds like quite the mess

                                                                        However, I can say we've been using UltraDNS for nearly two years now, and it HAS positively impacted our business. We also got an awesome deal locked in early, so I guess don't deal with the other issues people here seem to (high rates and annoying sales reps).

                                                                        When we first began using UltraDNS, we did have an immediate traffic increase of 5-6%. There must be a reason they have some large sites as clients as well, sites like Amazon, Myspace and eHarmony.

                                                                        On a personal note, Jon came down to party in Costa Rica with us awhile back and all I can say is he is one crazy motherfucker. We had a blast and he seemed like a very cool guy. That doesn't necessarily reflect on his business side, but that's my opinion here.

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                                                                        • darksoul
                                                                          Confirmed User
                                                                          • Apr 2002
                                                                          • 4997

                                                                          #37
                                                                          I wonder how they can even claim they're Ddos-proof since just not long ago
                                                                          they were taken down in the blue security mess.
                                                                          Ultradns is nothing more than any corp out there. They make their prices based
                                                                          on their name and not on services. They're big enough so they dont care about
                                                                          small customers. You have to be paying a shitload if you want to get the
                                                                          attention of a level 3 tech.
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                                                                          • darksoul
                                                                            Confirmed User
                                                                            • Apr 2002
                                                                            • 4997

                                                                            #38
                                                                            Originally posted by Varius
                                                                            There must be a reason they have some large sites as clients as well, sites like Amazon, Myspace and eHarmony.
                                                                            Theres a reason but its not the quality of service.
                                                                            Big corps are always big spenders on shitty products, isn't that a known fact yet ?
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                                                                            • Varius
                                                                              Confirmed User
                                                                              • Jun 2004
                                                                              • 6890

                                                                              #39
                                                                              Originally posted by darksoul
                                                                              Theres a reason but its not the quality of service.
                                                                              Big corps are always big spenders on shitty products, isn't that a known fact yet ?
                                                                              True, but eventually these companies would probably realize if it held no benefit to them...

                                                                              All I can say is our experience with them has been great from day 1, and we don't pay a fortune per month. Maybe we're just a lucky exception though
                                                                              Skype variuscr - Email varius AT gmail

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                                                                              • darksoul
                                                                                Confirmed User
                                                                                • Apr 2002
                                                                                • 4997

                                                                                #40
                                                                                Originally posted by Varius
                                                                                True, but eventually these companies would probably realize if it held no benefit to them...
                                                                                I tend to disagree. If you know a bit about the corporate environment you know
                                                                                how hard changes are done to the system.

                                                                                All I can say is our experience with them has been great from day 1, and we don't pay a fortune per month. Maybe we're just a lucky exception though
                                                                                Thats good and I hope you never have any problem.
                                                                                Like I always said you can't see the quality of a product when everything is
                                                                                working fine. Its the way they solve problems when they occur.
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                                                                                • Bas
                                                                                  Confirmed User
                                                                                  • Sep 2004
                                                                                  • 366

                                                                                  #41
                                                                                  Originally posted by Rochard
                                                                                  Can't remember her name either, but here's a picture....

                                                                                  Now that's eye candy!!!!
                                                                                  Bas

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                                                                                  • darksoul
                                                                                    Confirmed User
                                                                                    • Apr 2002
                                                                                    • 4997

                                                                                    #42
                                                                                    Originally posted by Rochard


                                                                                    I this the way to get biz done now ?
                                                                                    Should I hire some chicks ?
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                                                                                    • FreeOnes
                                                                                      Confirmed User
                                                                                      • Jul 2001
                                                                                      • 3406

                                                                                      #43
                                                                                      Originally posted by Rochard
                                                                                      Can't remember her name either, but here's a picture....


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                                                                                      • salsbury
                                                                                        Confirmed User
                                                                                        • Feb 2002
                                                                                        • 1070

                                                                                        #44
                                                                                        UltraDNS now just says they're "a company that does DNS" when they call. they still use the same bullshit "won't take no for an answer" tactics. it's basically harassment at this point, and it shows just how desperate they are for business (which i take to mean they can't be doing very well).

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                                                                                        • Forest
                                                                                          Confirmed User
                                                                                          • Aug 2001
                                                                                          • 9136

                                                                                          #45
                                                                                          They are a fucking pain in the ass

                                                                                          calling here 3-4 times a week

                                                                                          and the answer is always NO

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                                                                                          • DutchTeenCash
                                                                                            I like Dutch Girls
                                                                                            • Feb 2003
                                                                                            • 21684

                                                                                            #46
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                                                                                            10 mln queries a month

                                                                                            been using them for 8 months now - works like a charm INCLUDING dns failover

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                                                                                            • dissipate
                                                                                              The Dirty Frenchman
                                                                                              • Nov 2005
                                                                                              • 8904

                                                                                              #47
                                                                                              Old thread eh? oh well the chic in the picture is hot

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