I just realized that all the cool changes to the state self defense laws are taking effect just in time for zombie season. Heh.

If I sold CNAM dips at $0.05 per dip, would anyone here be interested?

No setup charge, no minimums (there is a prepay for under $5/mo in traffic, but that is a practical necessity).

You would not be permitted to use them for data mining purposes, or anything like that, just for looking up the names of numbers that are calling you. Where they called you (say, your cell phone for example) is none of my business, I don't care. I just can't resell this to people who are going to do something like look up:
248-379-0001
248-379-0002
…
and shit like that. It's gotta be real, or at least look like it.

This would be directly through Timmins Technologies, not my current employer (and I'm not reselling their database access either, this is different, but it's real CNAM). You need not be a CLEC, and my only request is that if you do less than $5/mo in volume, you prepay by that amount so I don't have to ding you for $0.27 every month or whatever.

Any takers? This is incredibly useful if you pay for caller ID number only, and are sending to an asterisk box, or are taking in calls from voicepulse, et al and want CNAM. (Or if you have a carrier trunk from a telco but don't have SS7 database access). For asterisk, I will provide an AGI script to do everything for you on request. Just call the AGI script and it takes care of everything.

The price isn't a great deal if you're a CLEC or something, I'll admit that up front. It's what I can sell it for at the moment. If I can get over 5k dips a month, the price drops.

But for affordable dips anyone can do, this is the ticket.

Fine print:

You can't cache. I won't be caching either. You don't have to look up every number you get, but you can't cache the data. Note that I won't know the difference initially, but I'll never believe that every number ever only calls you once. 🙂
I'm not just profeteering on that, it's customer proprietary network information and it's not legal to cache it.

If CNAM fails or the number is not found, you get city/state. I will get billed on a "Not Found", and so will you. I'm just committing to return something more useful than "Unavailable". 🙂

I won't bill for garbage ANI. 000000000 and similar crap will simply be returned as "Invalid" and not billed.

To insure compliance, allow for proper billing, and detect abuse, I will be logging all query attempts. I will not resell your query information, however.

Dips will be returned over HTTP, if you are interested in other interfaces, such as Broadsoft SIP or something like that, let me know, I can make it happen.

Response times will be under 5 seconds.

Our Internet Connection For The Evening
Originally uploaded by Paul Timmins.

Okay, a big fuck you to unnamed open source softswitches and unnamed PCI TDM hardware that completely shits itself for fax when you actually properly derive clocking.

And on an unrelated note, today I got another comical cease and decist, I get them about 1-2 times a month, where someone thinks that just because they can look up the number of the harassing phone calls they're getting on my site, that means I run that number.

Even when I make a good faith effort to explain to them that the results that my site gave them are actually but a step in tracking down the caller, they call me all sorts of names. And then inevitably, threaten to sue me. I calmly point out that their claims are completely without merit, and simply tell them where they can serve me, reminding them my business does not exist as a legal entity in their state (in other words, you'd better come after me with someone on the federal bar…), and that if neccesary, I would countersue for my costs in retaining a lawyer to defend against their baseless claims.

Why can't people see I'm part of the fucking solution, not the problem? I try and be nice….