This could mean that the Black Hole isn’t as impenetrable as they’ve always seemed. If you’d like updates on the situation and any possibility that any of their numbers might become available, let us know!

Bill Quimby

Bill

Is this the same as “99″ status?

Thanks

The FCC oversee’s the toll free number database. see: http://www.tollfreenumbers.com/blogs/how-does-the-fcc-control-toll-free-numbers.html

Company’s go out of business sometimes. The numbers are held for four months for the old customer to claim them and then released if nobody claims them. Then anyone can get them and somebody often does.

If the one you’re looking at says Resporg Locked that’s a bad sign and means someone else not only has it they may have locked it because it’s important to them. If you email me the number I can tell you a little more from the resporg history.

Bill

This is an interesting comment. The most obvious answer is that our system really didn’t change or maybe I should say that the only major change we did recently was to add the premium numbers and random 800 numbers. But adding those to the search results really didn’t put any less into the results. The clear issue is that it has gotten harder to get good numbers than it probably was the last time you were trying. Sometimes that can be because you were looking for a number in a less competitive category before, but I do agree that the competition has definitely stepped up quite a bit.

The best answer to what you’re trying to do, which we’re actually working on right now, is to do a more thorough search on every query. We’re doing this by adding an ‘800 Watch’ query the bottom of every Instant 800 Lookup Search Result page. We’re going to start by just adding it in a large third box below the other two. We may change the presentation once we get it up, but we really think this is too huge of an improvement not to add this asap.

You can get the more thorough results now by using the Keyword Lookup or the Advanced Keyword Lookup at http://www.TollFreeNumbers.com/keyword/. That will send you the results via email within a minute. We’re trying to get that process down to 10 seconds so it works better on a webpage.

By the way, that company that never releases anything is Primetel. They have millions of toll free numbers and I list them all as Locked because they never release anything. That’s why I describe them that way to get the idea across that they don’t release anything. They are an issue, but I really don’t want to say anything else about them because it won’t help anything or change anything.

Bill

We have two of your numbers. You use to be easy to work with, finding numbers. Now all I get is RESP LOCKED or a co that never releases anything. You have a lot of premium numbers, went through hybrid1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-0 and nothing. Your suggestions are numbers and not words to spell out. This change in your business has me concerned.

Dennis Sullivan