Searcher be ware!

Search for 800 numbers at your own risk

Searching for 800 Numbers on the wrong website can be a Big Mistake!

It should be illegal for a look up tool to automatically reserve everything it finds, but it’s not. Network Solutions started doing it a couple months ago, locking up any domain name that searchers find available. They do this allegedly to protect their users, but it doesn’t hurt that it forces visitors to get the names they find at their lookup tool from them, charging 3 to 5 times as much more competitive services. This is incredibly frustrating if it happens to you.

A lot of websites out there do the same thing, except they don’t hold the name you want for four or five days, they hold it for 45 days. Some do even more than that. They don’t just reserve it and make you activate it in THEIR name. Some websites look like phone companies but are actually more like domain name squatters that let you submit names and then want to sell you the domain name you found or just checked on their service for an exhorbenent rate or worse yet, to rent it to you. Some will even reserve all of the numbers related to the number you wanted so there’s no other alternatives either.

If you find a number available on our website, we don’t automatically reserve it and lock you in. We only reserve it if you specifically ask us to. We do a better job at helping you find numbers, activating them and giving you better independent proof of ownership in order to make it worth a couple bucks to get you the number you want. If all that’s not worth a couple bucks to you then nothing is and you deserve to take your chances out there. But if you want more help with a better service, you’re in the right place.

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