e164.name

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Universal Service Phone Number

e164.name reinvents the ITU EUM standard by realising the dream of an universal service phone number - a single phone number that can be used for secured voice, email, messaging, voice, web worldwide.

  • Instant Upgrade Existing Service Number
    e164.name supports all existing phone service numbers, anyone worldwide can add universal service to their existing phone number with just ONE CALL.

  • Instant Aquire New Owner Number
    Beside turning your current service-specific-numbers into universal service phone numbers, e164.name also supports the creation of new owner-specific-numbers through that SAME CALL.

Compatible Replacement

Despite e164.arpa's failure, the ENUM technology is already supported on most existing telephone systems (e.g. Asterisk, Freeswitch etc.).

e164.name is a fully compatible replacement for International Telecommunication Union (ITU) e164.arpa telephone number mapping system, which has been dying for years.

SIP telephone carriers and systems, simply need to add e164.name into their ENUM configuration to make use of e164.name.

Forward Deployment

Getting a formal phone number range assignment with the ITU for the +89 range can take a long time, in the meantime e164.name is used to make +89 range reachable by anyone in the world.

We have look at using other country codes like +88, but their use of long prefixes (e.g. the dead iNum network which has been give the +8835100 country code by the ITU but has not been successful), so we have avoided the +88 range all together in order to get a sort 2 digit long prefix +89.

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ENUM Usage

e164.name conforms to the ENUM standard and is a publicly available for any individual or organisation to lookup without charge.

You can either access e164.name directly from your own VoIP device or your VoIP provide can access e164.name on your behalf.

Supported Services

All Team Compute voice services use e164.name so all voice calls you make with 88.io accounts are already using e164.name to achieve universal service numbering.

Compatible VoIP Devices

If your phone supports ENUM lookup then using e164.name is as simple as adding the word "e164.name" into the ENUM lookup list of your phone.

Unfortunately (more phones don't have) any compatible Internet Phone device or system.

For people without ENUM compatible devices or systems, the best way is to request e164.name domain be added to the ENUM domain list of their respective VoIP provider.

Most VoIP provider will be happy to add e164.name since it will reduce their cost of delivery of phone calls to any phone numbers on e164.name

Compatible VoIP Providers

If your internet phone device does not support ENUM, tell your Internet Phone (or VoIP) provider to configure ENUM e164.name into its network - there is no charge for using e164.name.

Once your provider has configured the ENUM e164.name domain into their network, ALL their customers can use ENUM e164.name transparently - making it very convenient for its users to tap into this powerful technology.

Your provider can also save money and improve quality by sending phone calls to all the phone numbers in e164.name domain (directly to the end device) WITHOUT going through any intermediate carriers or networks.

Besides using e164.name for lookup, all telephone operators are also welcomed to add their phone numbers into e164.name

If your provider has any questions or want to submit their phone numbers to e164.name please tell them to send an email to peering@net2max.com

Testing ENUM

It is best to check with your Internet Phone (VoIP) provider on whether they support ENUM e164.name. However, there is a quick way of testing for e164.name support on your network yourself:

Simply make a call from your internet phone to anyone of the phone numbers on the Access Number List.

If you get charged for that call then most likely your Internet Phone Provider has NOT configured e164.name into its network. If it is a free call then most likely your Internet Phone Provider is one of those who have e164.name configured.

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Supported ENUM Services

There are many ENUM services defined:

Four of those service (email, sip, web, xmpp) have been deployed. Support for more ENUM service from the following list may be added later:

Type URI RFC Status
email mailto RFC4355 deployed for email traffic
fax tel RFC4355
ical-access https RFC5333
ical-sched mailto RFC5333
pstn tel RFC4769
sip sip, sips RFC3764 deployed for voice traffic
sms tel RFC4355
vcard https RFC4969
web https RFC4002 deployed for web traffic
xmpp xmpp RFC4979 deployed for message traffic

Please refer to RFC6118 for general details.

Encrypted SIP Calls

Unfortunately even in year 2025 there are still many voice carriers who are transmitting voice calls using standard SIP protocols (e.g. over UDP) which are unencrypted.

To be listed on e164.name the voice calls MUST be encrypted e.g. with SRTP for media and using either TLS or web sockets for signalling.