Online Hosted e-mail Validation in Real-Time

Instantly Verify if an e-mail address can or cannot receive Email

Did you know that Jupiter Media estimates that every Email address acquisition costs $114? The Service Objects DOTS Email Validation will help you catch and correct over 90% of your invalid email addresses AT THE POINT OF REGISTRATION!

DOTS Email Validation^SM is a programmable web service hosted by Service Objects and used by businesses to integrate e-mail address correction and validation services into their software applications and web sites.

Validating an e-mail address is surprisingly complex. You need to write a lot of tricky networking code if you want to check the syntax, domain and the SMTP server. Introducing DOTS Email Validation, a powerful XML-based email validation solution that allows your company to provide instant, real-time, real world verification of email addresses.

• Validate email addresses on point of entry for as low as 1½¢ per hit
• Secure SOAP geocoding service with HTTPS communication
• Load balanced server technology, mirrored servers in California and New York
• Real-time email address validation in 1,000mS or less
• Example code for ASP.NET/C#, PHP, ColdFusion available
• Free 15-day trial period

You are assured that only legitimate email addresses are saved and stored in your CRM or other tracking system. This increases the quality and reduces time and cost for follow-up emailing.

DOTS Email Validation identifies free email accounts and new email accounts established within the last year. Under certain circumstances, users may choose to handle free and new (non-established) email accounts differently. For instance, free email accounts are more commonly associated with credit card fraud.

Email Validation provides fast and most accurate email address validation available and fully complies with Internet standards. Not only does DOTS for Email Validation fully recognize all forms of valid email addresses, but it can also verify the domain of the address and whether the user exists at that domain.

Email Validation performs the following escalating series of checks to verify an email address:

• Detect general format and syntax errors in email addresses
• Ensure addresses use a valid top level domain (e.g. .com, .net, .jp, .cc, etc.)
• Detect improper email address formats for common domains such as Hotmail and AOL
• Optionally, confirm that the domains can receive email
• Determines whether the email address is provided for free
• Determines whether the email address can receive email
• Determines whether the email address has been established twelve months or less.

How It Works: DOTS Email Validation instantly verifies that an email address is valid and can receive messages. It does this by sending a "micro message" to the email server and analyzing the response - without sending an actual message.

• Increase the accuracy of information collected on your web site
• Reduce the cost to collect, store, and process customer information
• Increase the quality and effectiveness of email campaigns to your customers
• Help reduce fraud

Where It Works: At many locations throughout your web site, you may be requesting a visitor enter his or her email address. This may be used for follow-up as part of an "opt-in" email campaign, or as an account name, or for many other purposes.

Example: Try an email address like: "jim.wilson@yahoo.com".

Service Returns:
Email Address In: jim.wilson@yahoo.com
Box: jim.wilson
Domain: yahoo.com
IsRecognizedTLD: true
TopLevelDomain: .com
TopLevelDomainDescription: commercial
IsCCTLD: false
IsSyntaxGood: true
IsDomainSpecificSyntaxGood: true
IsDNSGood: true
IsSMTPServerGood: true
IsCatchAllDomain: true
IsSMTPMailboxGood: true
Is Free: true
Is Established: false
Is Alias: false
Is Bogus: false
Is Vulgar: false
Possible First Name: JIM
Possible Last Name: WILSON

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How Can I Use It: When a visitor to your site supplies an email address, instantly verify that it is accurate. Incorrect and invalid addresses may be entered deliberately or inadvertently, but a simple request from the site to double check the entry can increase voluntary compliance dramatically!

DOTS Email Validation is designed to help filter out invalid email addresses by syntax, domain and SMTP Server. DOTS Email Validation is not able to detect mismatches between email address and contact information. Furthermore, there are cases where the email address being checked passes as valid even though the specific addressee may not exist. This happens when a system administrator of the domain has configured the email server to accept all email with the correct domain.