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What Happened to Texting? The Truth About 10DLC and All the Latest

As a company that strives for straightforward prices, plans and features, and also values transparency with our customers, it’s time to talk about the elephant in the room. At the end of last year, we paused our long-time outbound texting feature. What’s Going on with SMS and Why? Inquiring minds want to know. (And so […]

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How To Find Your Old Childhood Phone Number

As a millennial born in the mid 1980s, I got my first cell phone when I went to college, a classic Nokia brick, eventually replaced by a cool Motorola Razr so I could capture precious memories with the grainiest camera you’ve ever seen. That was the beginning of the end for my need to memorize […]

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Keep Your Skype Number by Transferring it to NumberBarn

The word is out, Skype is migrating to Microsoft Teams May 5, 2025. If you’ve been holding onto that special Skype number for ages, and want to keep it without moving it over to Teams, you’re in the right place! In most cases, you CAN port (transfer) your Skype number over to NumberBarn! The best […]

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How To Switch Phone Carriers and Keep Your Number: Porting 101

If you ever need a new provider or a new phone number, porting is always a good idea. Why not <a href="https://www.numberbarn.com/purchase-and-port">start porting</a> now? Even if you’re just using our <a href="https://www.numberbarn.com/number-parking">port-and-park plan</a> to store your number and protect your information. <br>We have plenty of other (very inexpensive!) <a href="https://www.numberbarn.com/pricing">plans</a> you can take advantage of as well. If you have any questions along the way, check out our H<a href="https://help.numberbarn.com/hc/en-us">elp Center</a> or reach out to our <a href="https://www.numberbarn.com/contact">amazing customer support team</a> who are ready to guide you to the best solution for your phone number needs!

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How To Get A Phone Number That Spells Your Name

Ever wonder how people get those fancy phone numbers that spell out words? (You know, like, “1-800-I-AM-COOL.”) How difficult is it to make your name into a phone number that you can use, just like you use the number you have right now? Good news: it turns out it’s not really that hard to convert […]

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What’s The Value of My Phone Number? Can I Sell It?

Years ago, I once asked a friend for her new phone number, and she replied, “It’s really easy to remember,” before giving me this doozy (area code and first three digits censored, obviously): “***-***-5050” I joked that she should start her own law firm, but it got me thinking about those billboard attorney ads with […]

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How To Choose A Verizon Vanity Number

Do you want to choose your Verizon number, but aren’t sure how? Depending on how much you want to personalize the number, as well as what numbers are currently available to you, you have a couple of options. If you want to change your number for any reason (too many spam calls, need a change, […]

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How To Get a 1-800 Number (And Do They Matter?)

Toll-free vanity numbers: they’re on billboards, web banners, commercials — you name it. But how exactly do you get your own toll-free number or toll-free vanity number, like one of those 1-800 numbers you see everywhere? Is there a difference between an 800 number and other vanity numbers? And do they actually make any real […]

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Recovering An Old Phone Number

“I’ve had the same phone number for years. I recently switched providers and didn’t know that I could keep my previous phone number, is it possible to get that number back?” Many people don’t realize that they are the legal owners of their active phone numbers. So when you change providers, you get to decide […]

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How To Find the Perfect Phone Number (If It Even Exists)

Here’s a sobering truth: There’s a possibility the perfect phone number you’ve always wanted, whether for personal or business use, isn’t available. Perhaps it will never be available. Or, that number straight-up doesn’t exist. Well, what then? Do you give up and resort to whatever phone number is given to you? No. You have other […]

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How to Gift a Phone Number

One of my kids recently had a “coming of age” birthday, and with it, my wife and I felt it was time that he had a phone. You know – so we could more easily communicate with him, track his whereabouts and enable him to spend his time at school not paying attention to his […]

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The 20 Most Popular Area Codes of 2023

We’re well into 2024 and inquiring minds want to know…what’s the story on last year’s top area codes? We’ve heard you and we’ve compiled our data to explore what city ranks where in our third annual study featuring the most popular area codes of 2023! In classic NumberBarn style, we aren’t just going to list […]

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Don’t Forget to Pack Your Phone Number

There’s nothing worse than heading out on that big adventure or trip of a lifetime and discovering that you forgot to pack underwear, a tube of toothpaste, or something else. I’m pretty sure you weren’t planning to interrupt your full itinerary to find a store to purchase that essential item. Ugh! Few things are more […]

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The Many Seasons of Telephone Numbers

As someone who has worked in customer support for a lot of years, one of my favorite questions to ask my peers in the industry is, “What are the seasons for your company?” In the context of a business, seasonality refers to those times that tend to be busier and require more staff to handle […]

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