Craig's Number

Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Tue, 19 Dec 2006 13:46:00 GMT  <== Politics ==> 

craigsnumber.com allows you to lease (for free, it appears) a telephone number for an hour, a day, or a week. When somebody calls the number, plus extension, it forwards the call to any number you enter. This allows you to have people call you without giving away your real telephone number. They have numbers in area codes for San Francisco, DC, and Dallas. I called one of the numbers it assigned, and was greeted by a female voice saying, "Please enter the extension number." Then I was asked to record an introduction and press pound. On the receiving end, I answered the phone and the same voice said, "This is Craig's number. You have an incoming call with introduction." Then it played the introduction I recorded, and said "To accept this call, press one." When I pressed one, I was connected. I wonder if they've arranged a cut of the long distance fees. Or maybe I'll see a charge on my next phone bill. Don't know. But highly cool, in any case. [paladin]

The craigsnumber.com domain is registered with bluehost. The whois page shows only bluehost's information.

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craigsnumber.com is now numbr.com

Submitted by on Tue, 29 May 2007 12:24:32 GMT

craigsnumber.com is now numbr.com. Same service. New name.

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same service?

Submitted by taiyo on Wed, 09 Jul 2008 13:42:12 GMT

Doesn't look like the same service to me...

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Same service, but not yet working, and obscured

Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:01:22 GMT

craignumber.com now forwards to http://www.numbr.com/ . If you click there on the "Free Trial" box, it takes you to http://www.inumbr.com/ , which is currently in private beta, providing, it appears, the same service that craigsnumber.com had working a year and a half ago.

But the rest of the numbrs.com web site doesn't look at all like the craigsnumber.com service.

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