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 ...
Reverse-Phone Look-Up: A Deep Dive
Our DOTS Geophone Plus, a reverse phone lookup service, is our top of the line phone validation service. This article provides a guided tour of some of the ...
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 ...
How Address Validation US Standardizes an Address for the USPS
Our DOTS Address Validation US 3 web service works hard to clean up and standardize your addresses to the United States Postal Service (USPS) formatting standards. Why is ...
Address Validation’s Alphabet Soup
The United States Postal Service (USPS) has an acronym for almost everything and this leads to some pretty interesting conversations around the Service Objects' water cooler. You might ...
Why Is Pricing So Hard?
Pricing is - by far - the most common question asked when we start talking with prospective customers. And of course, we understand that you need to know ...
Lead Validation, Part 2: Advanced Features and Capabilities
Last month, we published a blog about DOTS Lead Validation, taking a deep dive into the services and core components that make up the building blocks of the ...
IP Address Validation: What Can I Learn From an IP Address?
What is DOTS IP Address Validation? First, it helps to understand what an IP address is. IP addresses are like a mailing address, but for devices on the ...
Check Out Our Updated Developer Guides
We recently revamped our developer guides to make them more user-friendly. The information for each service has been broken into its component parts, to make each feature more ...
