Comments on: National A-1 owns $1B worth of toll free numbers??! Compared to “MAFIA” by insiders :(

By: Bill Quimby

Bill Quimby — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 17:38:40 +0000

The reporter took the Mafia analogy out of context. I said that they make a ton of money in a vice type of business, which means they’re not dealing with the best part of society, and they don’t care what the rest of the world thinks of them. They make a lot of cash they have a lot of power and are used to getting what they want and they hide their business. It was an analogy which some validity. When you leave off the explanation as the reporter did, it gives it a very different meaning.

The issue about forging paperwork is an identity theft case that I am told a district attorney in California was pursuing in conjunction with the FCC. It’s not related to what the police, FBI and IRS would be looking for.

Would you like to see a small piece of their vanity number list? It’s too long to list here in a comment but I don’t think there’s any issue with listing it since I did the research myself and didn’t get it from Primetel directly. I think it would be helpful to the industry to pull the curtain back a little.

I would also point out that I don’t criticize Primetel. I respect what they’ve been able to do for sure. But I think leaving them unchecked hurts the whole industry.

Another big issue for domain namers is 855 numbers. It’s been impossible to get a matching toll free number for most of your good domain names but a couple weeks ago 855 numbers were released and there are tremendous opportunities in that. We’ve helped thousands of customers get great 855 numbers and 98.5% are still available!

By: Joe

Joe — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 15:16:32 +0000

Now I may just have found a buyer for 800sexvillage.

By: Attila

Attila — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 05:20:21 +0000

I had a run in with Bill Quimby. Didn’t know he was a native New Yorker. Guess that explains his lack in customer service for paying customers which makes him an asshole rather then an appreciative business owner.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 23:21:08 +0000

“TollFreeNumbers founder is just an idiot IMHO. He’s just getting himself into legal trouble.”

Legal trouble as in 100+ FBI agents showing to your door? You’re the idiot IMHO. Truth is an absolute defense in USA, and somehow I doubt that Nat A1 is that eager to be subpoenaed by the person the sue. The requests for documents and people can be extremely detailed, especially if it involves allegations of fraud.

And if they bought used 800 numbers to send old people to sex lines, I wish they had sent 100,000 feds to shut them down.

P.S. When you are involved with porn and other borderline businesses you have almost certainly broken a few federal laws. It’s the nature of the beast and laws may be unfair but it is how it is.

By: Gnanes

Gnanes — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 19:35:20 +0000

Lately I have been reading news about people taken to court over comments posted on YouTube or Blog. For ex. Search the Google for “Officerbubbles”

Here’s some quotes from the article:
“They forge paperwork, yank numbers; they don’t care what other people think about them.”

There are “isolated stories in the news media that pop up every once in a while that a number that belonged to a nice church or a White House press briefing now belongs to a phone-sex company,” Quimby said.

By: Mikey B

Mikey B — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 18:23:55 +0000

Why do you say that Gnanes? HOw is he getting himself into trouble?

Also, how can I buy toll free numbers? I searched the Net, but did not find a clear explanation. It seems everyone wants to lease these numbers, but nobody wants to explain how to buy them.

I leased a number from Quimby about 10 years ago, so I know there is money in this.

By: Gnanes

Gnanes — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 17:07:55 +0000

Article doesn’t really say much about what the raid was all about.

TollFreeNumbers founder is just an idiot IMHO. He’s just getting himself into legal trouble.