e164.name

admin · August 31, 2021, 2:00pm

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.

admin · June 26, 2022, 11:21pm

Government Control

Team Computer Owner Number works with individual laws of each country, giving each country sovereign control of all contact points hosted on its land.

Service Specific Public Numbers

Traditional country specific phone numbers are based on individual country-codes (e.g. +61 for phone number +61499331111), so they are already under the control of the government.

Team Compute simply adds EXTRA services (e.g. email address 61499331111@88.io) onto those existing numbers.

Owner Specific Private Numbers

New owner specific numbers based on the special +89 country code are being services by domains of a specific country (e.g. 89123456@aunsw.88.io) by default. Although these private numbers are no longer country specific, governments can still regulate them based the location of the servers those private numbers use.

admin · September 29, 2022, 8:09am

1. Introduction

The traditional telephone network is a globally accessible secondary communication channel to complement the internet that for your Private Cyberspace primarily runs on.

All Private Cyberspaces come with a phone portal:

for interaction with people without smart phones
when the owners cannot interact with their smart phones (e.g. when driving and walking)
as an "out-of-band" communication channel (e.g. for security checks)
when internet is not available or of poor quality

You can attach one or more phone number to your private cyberspace so it can interact with others over traditional non-IP telephone networks.

This phone number can be your existing mobile phone number. Once attached you can use it when you want:

your Private Cyberspace to answer your calls when you are busy
your friends to call your Private Cyberspace instead of your real phone

Despite the advance of web based technology, the traditional phone network is a great alternative communication channel in some cases:

2. Shared Phone Portal

To save cost, a few Private Cyberspaces can share a common phone portal.

2.1. Public Phone Portal

An easy to remember phone number for the public to pick up short voice messages from your Private Cyberspaces.

Australian Example:
13 88 13

You want to verify you Your private cyberspace
You call into 138813 in Australia

2.2. Member Phone Number

Collects data from caller into your Private Cyberspace using Voice, DTMF, SMS and Fax.

Ways of specifying the phone number of the private cyberspace you want to contact (the destination phone number):

SMS: put destination phone number as the first word of the SMS message
OTHERS: added your phone number
FAX: as the only number in the Called Subscriber Identification (CSID) fax header field.

Australian Example:
+614 99 33 1111

Note: we know CSID is for the SENDER fax phone number but we are using it for the RECEIVER fax number so we can forward the received fax from +614 99 33 1111 to the correct Private Cyberspace.

Specify the phone number of the private cyberspace you want to contact after the call is answered by the Interactive Phone Number.

2.3. Shared Ring Number

For you to ring to supply you phone number to the system. This just get the caller number it does NOT actually answer the phone call.

e.g.
Phone Number Verification process initiated from app.contacttrace.com.au

Australian Example:
1800 180 100

3. Dedicated Phone Portal

If you do NOT want to use the shared portals above, you can get a dedicated phone number for your Private Cyberspace.

With your own dedicated phone number, there is NO need for any portals to forward calls to your Private Cyberspace. All the calls will reach your cyberspace directly.

Australian Example:
A list of available dedicated numbers are here:
https://shop.oztralia.com/product/mobile-dedicated-phone-numbers/
Click "Choose an option" to see a list of available mobile phone numbers.
All those mobile numbers can receive Voice, Fax, SMS.

4. Deployment

Current deployments

admin · October 11, 2022, 7:19pm

Alias Phone Numbers

The international country code +883 has been set aside for phone numbers with an international nature by the ITU.

Global uses of +883 range have failed to gain traction (e.g. iNum - which no one seems to want to take responsibility anymore), which is not surprising as there is no incentive for telecommunication carriers to supporting the creation of additional competitors for voice traffic.

Private Cyberspace is using the +8839 number range for INTERNAL phone calls, avoiding overlap with existing assignments listed on the ITU site.

As +8839 has not been assigned by the ITU, so it will NOT work externally with carriers that do NOT use Private Cyberspace's ENUM service (based on the e164.name domain).

+8339 enables you to make free voice calls between web browser on most devices worldwide.

You can generate a +8839 phone number for yourself inside your Personal Console after verifying your phone number in 2 ways:

1. Existing Phone Numbers

A new +8839 number can be created by just adding 8839 in front of your current verified phone number.

For example, say your verified phone number is +61499331111 then your Private Cyberspace number can be +883961499331111. If you friends dial +883961499331111 from their web phone then your web phone will ring!

Note since this Cyberspace Phone Number is based on a real phone number, you will need to perform Phone Number Verification at least once every 90 days. Phone Number Verification is also required when there is a dispute on who is the current owner a particular phone number.

2. Random Phone Numbers

You can also create a +8839 number with 6 to 12 random digits.

For example, +8839123456 and +8839123456789012.

You can normally keep these as long as you keep using them.

3. Nice Numbers

Nice phone numbers are easy to remember e.g. short +8839333, repeating +8839111222333 etc.

They will given to those that have contributed a lot to the ecosystem or sold to raise funds for those in unfortunate circumstances.

admin · July 4, 2023, 11:26am

Alias Number Prices

Alias Numbers are limited resources, shorter numbers are given out as compute rewards and to raise funds for 88.io.

Number Lengths

Initially Alias Numbers are limited to a maximum of 15 digits in order to remain compatible with ITU e164 phone numbers, so they can be routed on traditional telephone networks easily.

Since all Alias Numbers starts with 89, only 13 digits are available, giving a total of 11,111,111,111,110 numbers (approximately 11 trillion).

e.g. for an Alias Number 89xxxxxxxxxxxxx
the positions xxxxxxxxxxxxx above can be filled with Arabic digits or nothing
so 89123 is different to 8912300, 891230000000000 etc.

Due to a lot of factors (including limited resources on earth), the world population growth is expected to slow and plateau around 11 billion people.

Note 15 digits is not a hard maximum limit, we can increase the maximum length at anytime (e.g. to 17 digits around the year 2040 to create extra headroom).

Number Prices

Prices are in 88.io standard currency which is currently the EURO.

Number of Digits	Custom Fee	Monthly Fee
15	100	0
14	100	0
13	100	0
12	100	0
11	100	0
10	100	0
9	1000	1
8	1000	10
7	10000	100
6	10000	1000
5	10000	10000
4	10000	100000

There is a quarantine period of at least 365 days after an Alias Number has been inactivated by its Alias, before it can be activated again.