Some of your contact email addresses may contain an IP address, for example, john.smith@[123.123.123.123] rather than a domain name, such as john.smith@example.com. Can you use these email addresses for...
Some things seem simple on the surface, but aren’t so easy in reality – for example, programming your DVR, or building assemble-it-yourself furniture. In the world of contact data quality, we would add...
Have you ever tried using Google Maps, Bing or other mapping services to bring up a map of China? If so then you may have noticed that satellite images do not match up with any of the geographic features...
What is a false positive? In email validation, this term is used when an email address is incorrectly identified as being valid or deliverable – in other words, it is flagged as being good when it is...
How do emails actually get from point A to point B? Most people have no idea. They don't stop to wonder how an email message is sent and delivered when clicking the send button. If you were to ask them...
If you were to encounter an email address that was comprised of just numbers, what would be your first reaction? You might suspect that it was a fake or disposable email address. But in some countries,...
What is a false negative? In email validation, the term is used when an address is incorrectly identified as being invalid or undeliverable – in other words, it is flagged as being bad when it is...
REST is a popular architectural style that has been the go-to design for web-based APIs for years. The style has defining constraints, but it is not a protocol and there is no official standard. REST is...
Disposable email addresses – also known as burner emails, throwaway emails, temporary emails or fake emails – are commonly touted as a useful tool for keeping one’s personal or business email address...
Google Maps is an amazing service. Much of the civilized world has now been mapped through its data sources, ranging from satellite data to its ubiquitous camera-mounted vehicles. The result is a tool that...
The country of Australia, officially known as the Commonwealth of Australia, consists of six states and two territories. There are over 13 million known deliverable addresses in Australia. This article...
In a previous blog, we discussed the benefits of using DOTS Address Detective - International to detect a contact’s country. This blog will discuss some of the challenges surrounding country detection in...
Is a mailing address the same as a physical address? No, not always. In general, a mailing address can often be the same as a street address, but this is not always the case. To understand why, we...
Our DOTS Phone Exchange can validate both domestic and international phone numbers. In this article, we will focus on validating international phone numbers using the operation,...
For companies who deal with users in the United Kingdom, this reference guide can help you better understand how UK addresses are formatted and what makes an address valid. The United Kingdom: Three...
You say tomato, I say tomahto. You say Rome, I say Roma. You say Munich, I say München. Let’s Not call the whole thing off. Have you ever wondered why the country code and abbreviation for Germany...
We love data here at Service Objects. We are constantly working to expand and improve on our datasets to further innovate our product lineup. A big part of what makes our Email Validation (EV) service so...
The DOTS Email Validation 3 (EV3) service has been designed to be robust enough to accommodate the particular needs of a detailed oriented programmer and simple enough to be used by a marketing assistant...
For most organizations, one of the most critical assets of their marketing operations is their email contact database. Email is still the lingua franca of business: according to the Radicati Group, over a...
What are honeypot email addresses? A honeypot is a type of spamtrap. It is an email address that is created with the intention of identifying potential spammers. The email address is often hidden from...
Here at Service Objects we come across a lot of names, particularly the names of places. We also work with a lot of personal names, but for now I would like to focus on just place names. Whether the name...
In November of 2016, Google started rolling out updates to more clearly distinguish their Geocoding and Places APIs, both of which are a part of the Google Maps API suite. The Places API was introduced in...
Using a blacklist to block malicious users and bots that would cause you aggravation and harm is one of the most common and oldest methods around (according to Wikipedia the first DNS based blacklist was...
Working with international address data can be difficult and confusing. Even when you have an application available to validate an address, and it tells you that it's deliverable, you still have to deal...
When dividing the countries of the world into regions and sub-regions for the purpose of Address Validation, it is important to find common ground and to use a set of widely adopted terms and definitions....
When geocoding addresses, coordinate precision is not as important as coordinate accuracy. It is a common misconception to confuse high precision decimal degree coordinates with high accuracy. Precision is...
Web services are great tools for completing one or more tasks that you would otherwise not have the resources to complete on your own. Web services can be relatively quick as well, returning a response in...
Amex Express Checkout is a new checkout option that recently went live this month, and unlike the other payment methods it is not an e-wallet in the conventional sense. Instead of creating and managing...
We all know garbage when we see it -- or do we? In the case of Service Objects' email validation, we have our own definition of garbage and we actively seek it out. We want to find garbage in email and...
Have you ever asked Siri to remind you to buy a certain product the next time you're at the store, call your mom, or fetch the latest movie times? Technology that was once the realm of fantasy has made its...
Email validation is an important tool in ensuring the deliverability of your email messages. Not only can email validation correct common typos and weed out bogus email addresses, it is also essential in...
