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How Address Validation US Standardizes an Address for the USPS

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

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?

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

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?

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 ...
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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 ...
Lead Validation: The Core Components

Lead Validation: The Core Components

How good are your leads? DOTS Lead Validation, Service Objects’ most popular composite service, is designed to measure lead quality – helping our clients reduce fraud, increase conversions ...
Fun Facts About ZIP Codes

Fun Facts About ZIP Codes

Addresses in the United States used to be a simple matter of a street location, a city and state, and perhaps a city-specific postal zone. But by the ...
Changes in Latitude, Changes in Attitude: Understanding Geocoding

Changes in Latitude, Changes in Attitude: Understanding Geocoding

When Jimmy Buffett sang the title of this blog post years ago, he may not have realized that he was talking about things like geocoding and data mining ...