Looks useful - something that my company could use at any rate. We're currently a customer of geonames's commercial web service. I have a few recommendations

Looks useful - something that my company could use at any rate. We're currently a customer of geonames's commercial web service. I have a few recommendations for the developer: First, the GMail account restriction sounds odd. But I'm guessing you can sign up with any Google account? Lots of people have Google accounts, but don't use GMail... If you can sign up with a Google account (like you often can with app-engine apps), I'd suggest calling it a Google account, not a GMail account. Second, I think the one-price-for-all-commercial-use is off-putting. I've already seen a light user talking about the price being expensive for 1 request a day, which perhaps it is, and you suggested that commercial users with low usage requirements should contact you. Generally speaking I think you want to be making custom deals for the heavy users, not the light ones. If you want to cater for the light commercial users, you might do better to offer an off-the-shelf package that will appeal to them (whilst being too restrictive for the customers that want heavier usage). I think heavy users would often a) be willing to pay more than $200 a year (which is under $17 a month i.e. very little), and b) be concerned about the fixed price because you wouldn't be able to sustain heavy usage at that low price and so the chances are that you'd want to cut them off for making too many requests. That's a lose lose situation, when it could easily be a win win (them as a happy heavy customer and you getting more money). I suspect some sort of rate-limit-based subscription pricing or credit-based pay-as-you-go system may be the way forward. If you used a service like FastSpring you could be taking subscription payments very quickly. (I recommend FastSpring because we're using them and I think they're great.) I don't want to imply that I know what pricing would make most sense for you - I don't - but I'm pretty confident that the current pricing is a long way from optimal.