SQUATTER

Someone in the vanity number business who watches for good numbers coming into the available pool and tries to grab them up, either hoping to sell or rent them to an end user in the future or hoping to make money with them from the wrong numbers. The term comes from the domain name business where domain name squatter or speculators do this for a business. I used to call them brokers but they don’t like that because there are regulations against hoarding and brokering. Squatter is also more appropriate because some organizations really don’t try to resell the numbers, they just grab and hold them.

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    Negotiating with Shared Use companies at TollFreeNumbers.com says:
    November 17, 2008 at 3:12 am

    [...] just wrote out a detailed description of their contact with someone in the industry, I would call a vanity number “squatter”. And when I started to answer them it wound up being something that I thought other people would [...]

      Are we an 800 Number Squatter? at TollFreeNumbers.com says:
      March 9, 2009 at 1:43 pm

      [...] it there were probably a couple more that might think it or wonder too. I came up with the term ‘Squatter’ because 800 number Broker brings up the FCC regulations against Hoarding and Brokering. [...]

        Ownership is Key! at TollFreeNumbers.com says:
        January 13, 2010 at 5:59 pm

        [...] If you’ve RENTED a toll free number before from a shared use company or a toll free number squatter, you know how you have to keep paying and paying. Don’t fall into that money pit, [...]

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