james says:
January 12, 2008 at 9:36 am

Well I don’t just want to forget about it!!! What is really going on here with these locks. Why exactly would the resporg want to lock a number and how do tehy get away with it?

FoneMan says:
January 22, 2008 at 1:23 pm

Funny and appropriate … As a 25yr Telco guy you might have explained further that the ‘Responsible Organization’ is a term that is part of the regulated toll-free industry and helps to protect the ‘owner’ of a number from getting slammed. Anybody ever have your long distance service ‘quietly’ changed without your explicit permission? Well there you go. Imagine it was your business 8xx number which for many is like a lifeline. Same goes for website domain names. Get it while you can or hope for the best.

Claude G. says:
February 13, 2008 at 10:36 pm

After recently having a valuable vanity toll free number stolen from me without my authorization, I quickly learned the value of putting a number in a “99″ status with my current resporg.

In doing some research, I have come accross several documents that refer to an even higher level of security referred to as a “00″ status.

Does this “00″ status actually exist? Or “99″ considered the highest level of security offered today?

Constantine D says:
April 1, 2008 at 2:34 am

Thanks again for helping us grab **edited**. I read about “99″ lock status on your web site - as an extra measure of security, can you please tell me if/ how we can apply this to our new number?

Thanks and best regards,

Constantine

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April 19, 2008 at 9:26 am

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Bill Quimby (211 comments.) says:
May 7, 2008 at 11:59 pm

Dennis,

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