Welcome to 7 Text. A site dedicated to using the .NET development platform with CMRL - a new mobile publishing platform developed by DOTGO which allows domain owners to provide text messaging services without having to purchase an expensive short code phone number.
You can read about these services from DOTGO here and see their promotional guidelines here.
The founders of DOTGO have made this technology free as of now and have provided extensive documentation on how to implement it. The free documentation can be found here.
Get "Hello World!" from 7text.com
At a very high level, this is how the DOTGO service works.
1. The user sends a text message to one of the DOTGO short code numbers corresponding to the top level domain of the web site being queried. In our example, the user would text the domain name "7text" to DOTCOM (368266)
2. The SMS text message is received by DOTGO's servers and converted to a web request to 7text.com.
3. The DOTGO server requests the file index.cmrl from the server.
4. The DOTGO server receives and parses the index.cmrl file for the appropriate response to the user who sent the text message.
5. The DOTGO server returns a text message to the user with the appropriate response. In this case the user would receive a text saying, "Hello World!"