Finally, SOME reprieve from those pesky telemarketers who seem to know exactly when you are sitting down to eat dinner, watch your favourite show, or blog about personal finance! :) The much awaited Do Not Call Registry is available to register yourself on for your personal home phone, cellular and fax numbers.
There are some exceptions and here is a list of entities that can still call/fax you:
- Registered charities looking for donations
- Newspapers looking for subscriptions
- Political parties and their candidates
- Companies with whom you have an existing relationship, or have done business with in the past 18 months
To sign up for the official Do Not Call Registry: www.lnnte-dncl.gc.ca
*****NOTE: THE SITE SEEMS TO BE DOWN TODAY**********
But Wait! There’s More…
Exempted organizations are permitted to make unsolicited telephone calls despite the inclusion of the number in the do-not-call registry. However, organizations must remove numbers from their lists if specifically requested to do so.
IOptOut takes advantage of this approach by allowing Canadians to create and manage a personal do-not-call list that begins where do-not-call list ends.
Click here to visit iOptOut.ca
Click here to visit the Do Not Call Registry site
*****NOTE: THE DO NOT CALL REGISTRY WEBSITE SEEMS TO BE DOWN TODAY******
I just tried to visit the DNCL site, and was presented with the following:
“Important Notice
National Do Not Call List (DNCL)
The DNCL Web site is temporarily unavailable. Please try again later.”
I’m guessing that there are a lot of people trying to register their numbers all at once…
@George – thanks for the update, I get the same message. I will amend the post to let others know.
Thanks for the mention. The DNCL list will supersede the iOptOut list. It’s great that finally we have a DNCL registry though the list of exclusions is rather long.
Thanks for posting this. I successfully removed both our number.