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Dilli Email Validation API (DEVA) now detects email domains belonging to adult sites

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Tired of constant spam with explicit content that are sent from email addresses with domains pointing to objectionable sites? Deploy Dilli Email Validation API to your rescue now!

Dilli Email Validation API (DEVA) now supports an optional check to mark email addresses as invalid if their domain points to a site containing sexually explicit content. This feature is currently in beta and is available immediately to existing and new users. However, it is turned off by default. If you are an existing user and will like to enable this check on your account, please reach out to us.

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Doctor Pooch featured under Staff Picks on Alexa Skill Store

‘Doctor Pooch’ Alexa Skill Featured on Alexa Skill Store

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We are delighted to learn that Amazon featured Doctor Pooch on Amazon Alexa Skill Store under Staff Picks today. Doctor Pooch is a digital assistant available on Alexa that lets pet owners determine if its safe to feed a given food item to their dog. For example: You can say: Alexa, ask Doctor Pooch if dogs can eat cashews.

Doctor Pooch featured under Staff Picks on Alexa Skill Store
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Physical Inventory Management via Google Assistant

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Over the weekend, we had the opportunity to participate in a developer event organized by Intuit to devise a solution to help small businesses. We teamed up with Mr. Jeff Chen – a friend and a small business owner – and Ms. Puja M. Hari to make it easy for businesses to perform a physical inventory. We wrote an Action for Google Assistant named ‘Inventory Manager’ that helps update the quantity on hand for an item in Quickbooks via voice.

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Introducing ‘Dilli Forms’ Alexa Skill

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We are delighted to announce that Amazon approved our newest Alexa skill – Dilli Forms. This skill lets you request any form pre-filled with your basic information such as name, address, phone and email address. Simply say – Alexa, ask Dilli Forms to get form <formname>. For ex: To get W-9 form, say Alexa, ask Dilli Forms to get form W-9. Within a few seconds, you will receive an email with the latest PDF version of the form pre-filled with your information. Save time and work smarter using Dilli Forms! Learn more about Dilli Forms Amazon Alexa skill.

“Dilli Labs” Alexa Skill Released!

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We are excited to announce an Amazon Alexa skill we created exclusively for clients of Dilli Labs! Its called ‘Dilli Labs’. Clients are issued a secret client code and a service name that they can use to invoke helper services like Broken Link Checking, creating HTML mark up for WordPress post from Vimeo APIs, requesting invoices, tax forms (W-9s), scheduling meetings, etc. To invoke the skill, simply say Alexa, open Dilli Labs and then follow the prompt. Become a Dilli Labs client now to make use of this skill! Check out Dilli Labs Alexa Skill. If you want to become a client or are an existing Dilli Labs client, and would like to suggest a service and/or get your client code, contact us by filling the form below:






    DEVA now detects Role Based Email Addresses like admin@, info@, help@, support@

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    Dilli Email Validation API (DEVA) – the advanced email validation API – now has the ability to detect role-based email addresses such as info@, help@, store@, etc. It marks such email addresses as invalid.  These addresses are not associated with an individual but rather with a department, company, or group. By default, this check is disabled. However, users may opt-in for including this check among many other validation checks. Reduce spam, bounce backs and increase business productivity by adopting DEVA now. Learn more about other validation checks and DEVA here.

    ‘Dilli Email Validator’ (DEV) WordPress Plugin v1.1.0.0 Released

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    Today, we are delighted to release a newer version (1.1.0.0) of Dilli Email Validator(DEV) WordPress plugin. Dilli Email Validator provides advanced validation for email form fields on WordPress sites using DEVA (Dilli Email Validation API). This newer version adds out of the box validation for email fields in forms built using Ninja Forms Wordpress plugin. Simply install, activate and configure DEV and get automatic email validation built into your WordPress sites so as to prevent malicious submissions and typographical errors. DEV already supports email form field validation in other popular form plugins like Contact Form 7, etc.

    Amazon features ‘Doctor Pooch’ Alexa Skill

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    We are delighted to know that Amazon featured our ‘Doctor Pooch‘ Alexa Skill in their weekly email on Apr 8, 2018 to their subscribers.  Doctor Pooch is an Amazon Alexa skill by Dilli Labs for dog owners and caretakers to find if their furry friends can eat certain foods. Simply say, Alexa, ask Doctor Pooch if dogs can eat <name of food> and get a well-researched response citing the source of the information and tips on feeding like amount and frequency. Here’s a snippet: Here’s the entire email. Jump to Page 2 to see ‘Doctor Pooch’. [pdf-embedder url=”https://www.dillilabs.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Alexa-Skills-Always-ready-to-help-or-entertain.pdf”]

    ‘Stop Forum Spam’ Email Blacklist Check in DEVA

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    StopForumSpam.com maintains a list of known malicious emails used for spam in blogs, forums and wikis. Beginning today, Dilli Email Validation API (DEVA) has added a new validation rule to check an email address against the StopForumSpam’s email blacklist to ensure that ‘bad guys’ are kept at bay from your website. This further enhances already existing advanced email validation capabilities of DEVA to help eliminate spammers from eavesdropping on your websites or other applications. Learn more about DEVA here.

    DEVA now detects Disposable Email Addresses

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    DEVA (Dilli Email Validation API) now includes the ability to detect and flag Disposable a.k.a Throwaway a.k.a Temporary email addresses.

    Disposable Email Address (DEA) is a temporary email address that is primarily intended for owners to hide their real email address. Users can request such an address from DEA providers like mailinator.com. This address is ephemeral – it expires after a short period. It is used by real users to circumvent a registration process where email is required without providing their actual email address. Depending on the provider, some of these addresses can be public as well, i.e anyone can access its inbox. For ex: Click here to see the public inbox of fake@mailinator.com.

    While initially invented to safeguard privacy, disposable addresses are now being actively abused to submit invalid data via web forms and such. Email broadcasting is a great marketing tool for genuine businesses who like to send periodic notifications to its list subscribers. Having throwaway email addresses in your recipient list means greater bounce rate given the temporary nature of such addresses. Given the frivolous nature of such addresses, its best to not have any DEA addresses in your subscription list.

    Another example where such addresses can do harm to your business reputation is if your business is in the lead generation industry. Imagine selling a lead with email fake@mailinator.com to your lead customers? Such an occurrence can do some serious damage to your relationship with them.

    In summary, having disposable email addresses in new leads or opportunities can do serious harm to businesses. It may hurt your conversion rate and business reputation.

    Starting today, we have integrated a validation rule in Dilli Email Validation API (DEVA) to detect disposable addresses and mark them as invalid. We actively maintain a list of 3000+ disposable email address providers that we check an email domain against to ensure its not disposable. Here are a few ways one can leverage DEVA to stop disposable addresses from making through to you: