New large-scale registry for supporting Change of Email Addresses. Privacy features for individuals.
Added: (Wed Jun 04 2003)
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MailLocate.com provides 3 services to fully solve all the problems of people changing their email address.
1. Individual Users
MailLocate allows you register you old email addresses along with your current address so that friends and contacts can always know how to find you (with your permission). But MailLocate also protects you from junk email.
Spammers gather their email lists by using automated programs (spiders) to crawl around the web to suck up email addresses. Our Lookup Page has been crafted to be invisible to 99.9% of junk-mail spiders, and the other 0.1% would have to put in so much effort to exploit the page it wouldn’t be cost-effective for them.
And if that isn’t enough there’s a setting on your User Page (once you register) that allows you to vet all lookups of your old addresses - i.e. the searcher has to register, and confirm their address, and then you get to choose whether or not to say hello.
2. Webmail Email Provider or ISP
The Contact Clean facilities in MailLocate can be used to increase your Brand Awareness!
Whenever someone looks in their addressbook to send an email, the address they find can either be an advert for you or an advert for your competitor!
MailLocate.com provides tools to keep individual's addressbooks up-to-date but, as an email provider, you can help your brand awareness in some very simple ways:
* Use the example MailLocate registration forms on your user's web-mail "Account" page - this will encourage them to keep their contacts up-to-date by registering the domain you provide as their preferred address.
* In the "Welcome" message you mail to new customers simply include a link to http://www.MailLocate.com
* Collect their old email address(es) as part of your registration process. Contact info@MailLocate.com to talk about how to integrate directly into our database backend using standard webservices.
MailLocate.com offers these as free services to ISPs and email providers.
MailLocate.com also offers tools you can integrate into your customer's addressbook management, available at a great discount to data providers.
3. Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Vendors and Authors and Email Direct Marketing Users
Part of any good CRM system will be the ability to capture and manage customer's email addresses. But can the software you write cope with people changing their email address and not informing the CRM user?
MailLocate.com maintains an email Change Of Address database that can solve this problem. We provide a webservice that can be accessed directly by your CRM software. We take care of all the issues to do with user privacy, security and confidentiality - you are then able to offer your customers a CRM tool with far greater functionality.
Access to the database is on retainer-license basis and is very cost-effective - all Contact Clean webservice technology is royalty and restriction free. How you pass the license costs on to your end customer is up to you.
If you manage large email lists, for direct marketing purposes or otherwise, the MailLocate Contact Clean webservice is available directly.
By regularly spring-cleaning your email lists, on an opt-in basis, you can ensure a higher proportion of your target audience receive your message, improve the reputation of your advertising, and also greatly reduce the amount of bounce messages your servers have to handle. Submitted by: Find out more.