Every good number has been taken…
It certainly seems that way a lot of the time, especially when you just start searching. And to a high degree, that’s pretty true for toll free numbers just like it is for domain names. That’s why most experts in the domain name business know that the best way to get good domain names today is to catch them when they’re deleted and returned to the available pool. The toll free number business is similar but it also has a couple advantages to the domain name business in this area though because good vanity numbers are much harder to recognize than good domain names. They are often used for other uses and the owner may not even know what it spells to you not to mention that they’re basically invisible to most phone companies too.
This is good because it means that even more good vanity numbers get returned to the pool than domain names. The bad part is that just like the domain name business, when a good number becomes available, it’s sucked up within seconds by a phone sex business or vanity number broker. Even the biggest regular phone companies can’t compete with these professional suckers who track every number and run fast scripts on multiple terminals at once to grab them the moment they’re returned.They have gotten so many numbers and continue to get them at such an alarming rate that I believe they are clearly harmful to the whole industry.
I have more information on some of these companies, but we’re developing a new system to allow the end user to backorder numbers that are in the process of being returned and we will use our own scripts together with a network of resporgs dedicated to beating the “suckers”.
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