We work hard to get disconnected numbers for our customers as they come out into the spare or available pool. But the competition is getting extremely fierce to put it mildly. We’re running low on random ‘800’ numbers so we started monitoring them more closely. I wrote about the overall numbers or random 800 numbers coming out on Friday. At 11pm central time on Friday November 21st there were 230 random ‘800′ numbers being released back into the pool. It took 11 seconds for them to come out from 11:00:01 pm till 11:00:12 pm and they lasted an average of 3.04 seconds before being gobbled back up again.

The only really surprising thing to me was the volume of numbers being taken by a very new resporg. I’m not saying that Lynx Communications is hoarding numbers, just because they don’t appear to have any actual presence, or any customers, and nobody has heard of them. But we are definitely going to look into that a little more to find out a little more about who they are, because nobody new just walks out and gets that amount of numbers by accident.

Here are the random 800 #s that came out 11/21/08 and how long they lasted in the pool before being reserved.