Frequently Asked Questions - Email Validation and Verification

  • How does your system handle verification intelligence?

    We have partnered with many data providers and email marketers whom provide us with their intelligent feeds in tandem with our inhouse mailing results to provide actual deliverables and report on consistent return paths. Many of our intelligent provi...
  • How much data can we append to?

    Our appending server have over 1 billion unique addresses that you can append to....
  • How big is your database of spamtraps?

    Our static and real time lists grow daily. Currently, we have almost 90 million top level, cable and spamcop traps including over 50,000 spam fighter administrator mx IP’s....
  • What is the diference between validation and verification?

    Validation remove threats and errors while verification removes mostly bounces. Email List Validation: Removal of spamtraps, static bounces, complainers, litigators, duplicates, disp...
  • Why were so many emails removed from my file?

    According to several white listed ISP’s, bounces grow 3 – 7% every month a list isn’t mailed. If your list has been sitting around, traded or harvested, there is a significant chance that the data has many imperfections. Usually ...
  • How do you know these are real spamtraps?

    Spam fighters share common techniques, software and hardware to fight spam. System administrator set their servers to block or blackhole incoming traffic with certain IP addresses that are switched often. Monitoring each administrator and their respo...
  • How do you classify a hard bounce?

    Mailservers respond to requests with smtp error codes which show the email does not exist or is invalid. We have compiled these codes and assign them a hard bounce value. This information is...
  • Is my data safe?

    Our data is housed in a Tier IV facility which is both HIPAA and SSAE 16 certified. It is not in the cloud where security could be breached. We also have NDA agreements with many clientele. We are not interested in your data. We have enough partners ...