
Address Insight for US Addresses – A Deep Dive
Introduction Our DOTS Address Insight - US API is a composite address-based service that provides insight and intelligence for a given location. The service has three core areas: ...

Best Practices for Address Validation
Your contact data is the lifeblood of your business. Today, having accurate address data is more critical than ever—it affects your customer reputation, mailing and shipping costs, the ...

US Address Validation Use Cases
Why do people use our DOTS Address Validation – US product? There are many reasons to choose our service that really depends on your business or project. At ...

Deliverable Addresses – Postal versus Third Party
The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines an address as “directions for delivery on the outside of an object (such as a letter or package).” But when is an address not ...

Address Detective – A Deep Dive
Our DOTS Address Detective service is an address-based service looking to help clients clean up the most challenging of addresses. It works well as a secondary check to ...

Santa’s Delivery Secret: Address Validation
With the holidays fast approaching, your customers will soon be shopping online and breaking last year’s sales records. They will be counting on your business to make sure ...

In Search of the Unique Address
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 ...

What is RDI in Address Validation?
RDI or a Residential Indicator is a feature in our Address Validation products that indicates if the United States Postal Service (USPS) considers an address to be a ...

Why GPS Coordinates Look Wrong on Maps of China
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 ...