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Mark Feldman November 24, 2024

Unlocking the Catch-All Domain Black Box: RevenueBase’s Breakthrough in Email Verification Technology

For years, catch-all email domains have been a thorn in the side of sales and marketing teams, as well as data providers. These domains, designed to accept all incoming emails regardless of their validity, create a black box for anyone trying to ensure email deliverability. The result? Lower conversion rates, wasted effort, and data quality issues that ripple through entire campaigns. Today, nearly 50% of business email domains are catch-all.

RevenueBase’s proprietary email verification technology has achieved what others couldn’t: piercing through the catch-all domain black box to deliver unprecedented levels of email accuracy and deliverability. With this innovation, RevenueBase is setting a new standard for B2B data quality, enabling sales teams and data providers to operate with confidence.

What are Catch-All domains?

Catch-all domains are email domains configured to accept all emails sent to any address under the domain, regardless of whether the specific email address exists. This setup ensures no emails are rejected due to typos or non-existent addresses, making it useful for businesses aiming to avoid missed communications. However, while practical for capturing all inbound messages, catch-all domains create a black box for most email verification tools, as they always respond positively to delivery attempts, making it difficult to determine if an address is valid or deliverable.

RevenueBase’s Breakthrough: Piercing the Catch-All Domain Black Box

At RevenueBase, we’ve invested millions into perfecting our data pipeline and email verification technology to address the most persistent challenges in the industry. Here’s how we’ve done it:

• Signal-Based Validation: Instead of relying on simple SMTP pings to servers—which are ineffective against catch-all domains—RevenueBase analyzes five additional signals that provide deeper insights into the deliverability of an email.
• Statistical Modeling: These signals are fed into our proprietary statistical model, which interprets the data and determines with 99% accuracy whether the email is deliverable or not. This allows us to cut through the ambiguity of catch-all domains, providing results that are unparalleled in the industry.
• Real-World Validation: RevenueBase’s technology has been in use for several years, earning us a reputation among sales and marketing teams for delivering the lowest bounce rates in the industry. Beyond powering our own B2B contact databases, the verification service has also been made available to leading B2B data providers, who rely on it to clean and maintain their own datasets, further cementing RevenueBase as the go-to solution for email accuracy.

What This Means for B2B Teams and Data Providers

The implications of our breakthrough are enormous for both B2B teams and data providers:

• Lower Bounce Rates: Say goodbye to email campaigns with high hard bounce rates. RevenueBase delivers data that’s accurate, actionable, and ready to deploy.
• Enhanced Campaign Performance: With highly deliverable email addresses, sales and marketing teams see better response rates, stronger pipelines, and higher ROI.
• Higher Confidence in Data: For data providers, our technology enables cleaner datasets that are easier to sell and more trusted by customers.

The New Standard in Email Verification

With RevenueBase, the era of uncertainty around catch-all domains is over. Our technology provides the accuracy that B2B teams and data providers have been seeking for years. By finally unlocking the black box of catch-all domains, RevenueBase is not just improving email deliverability—it’s redefining what “quality data” means in the B2B space.

Whether you’re a sales team looking to boost performance or a data provider aiming to deliver the best product to your clients, RevenueBase is here to help you win.

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