Name Validation

DOTS Name Validation

Weeds Out the Fake and Sorts Out the Names of Good Leads

DOTS Name Validation separates full names, inverse names, and partially-split names to help you populate and maintain your databases and accurately build proper salutations, adding a personal touch to all of your sales and marketing campaigns.


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Overview

What is it?

DOTS Name Validation (NV) is a hosted, programmable XML Web Service that allows users to validate and parse single-field names into components: Prefix, First Name, Middle Name, Last Name, Suffix, Gender while also determining gender and origin of the name. Our powerful and easy-to-use name validation tool is ideal for Web forms, forcing Web site visitors to enter their real name and ensuring that the billing and delivery addresses they provide are complete and accurate.

DOTS Name ValidationSM allows you to integrate real-time name validation into your Web forms, applications, or other business contact dependent processes for correct contact information every step of the way.

 
Features & Benefits

FEATURES


  • Parses full names into individual fields
  • Identifies more than 30,000 first names and 80,000 last names
  • Parses compounded names such as 'Mr. and Ms. Larry and Brenda Wilson III'
  • Detects garbage name inputs. For example, asdf,fghjt, and kkkatie would return as garbage
  • Returns gender based on the first name
  • Detects and identifies bogus names. For example, Homer Simpson and Mickey Mouse would be flagged.
  • Checks for vulgar names
  • Returns nicknames. For example, a first name input of Robert returns: Rob,Bob,Bobby,Robby etc.

BENEFITS


Better leads. Verifying contacts by name as they come in, gives you one more filter to identify serious leads. Efficiency. A separate field for gender makes it easy to identify the correct salutation for your personalized business communications.
 
Security

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Data security is a critical component of our web services. Service Objects offers the highest level of security available, to keep you in control of your customers’ data, at every touch point.

Security

  • No customer data is captured, sold, or shared
  • HTTPS protocol encrypts transactions sent to and from DOTS Web Services
  • Primary and backup data centers in separate geographic locations
  • 24/7/365 manned state-of-the-art data centers with secured access
  • Fully redundant, load-balanced hardware and Internet connections
  • SSL with a minimum of 128-bit symmetric encryption and a 1024-bit authenticated key agreement

Availability

  • Real-time XML Web service interface
  • Service Level Agreement of 99.995%
  • Redundant switches, firewalls, load balancers, servers, and backup systems ensure high availability
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Pricing

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Monthly Subscription Free $119 / mo $289 / mo $479 / mo Special pricing available for larger volume orders
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Transactions 500 Total 5,000 / mo 20,000 / mo 40,000 / mo
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Developer's Tools

EXAMPLES & RESOURCES


Developer's Guide

View Developer's Guide. It covers NV integration, Web service structure, request types and other pertinent information that will help you be successful in understanding and implementing this service.

Service Path

See the service path for NV and access several samples of SOAP requests and responses.

XML WSDL

See XML WSDL for descriptions of NV data types, details, interface, location and protocol.