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Notes from the team

Occasional writing on identity validation, regional data infrastructure and the decisions behind MENAVerify. No cadence promised — we publish when we have something worth reading.

  • Engineering

    14 January 2025

    6 min read

    Why we validate in-process instead of calling a registry

    SMS gateways and third-party lookups add cost, latency and a rate limit you don't control. Here's how we answer from published numbering plans and our own range data instead.

  • Product

    3 December 2024

    5 min read

    Normalizing what UAE users actually type

    Arabic-Indic digits, RTL marks, a leading zero, dashes and spaces — the messy inputs a phone field really receives, and the single canonical string you should store.

  • Data

    8 November 2024

    7 min read

    Number portability and the range holder problem

    Because UAE mobile numbers are portable, the live network isn't knowable from the number alone. Why we return the range holder and flag portability rather than pretend.

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