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Telnic Limited (http://telnic.tel), the registry operator for new communications focused .tel top level domain (TLD), today announced that as momentum for .tel domains grow in the UK, BT Business is set to launch an advertising campaign across Bloomberg Television and a new website at http://bt.com/tel.

Carl di Cicco, Head of eCommerce for BT Business, said: “With a .tel, BT Business customers will now be able streamline their contact information by giving out a name or branded contact point rather multiple addresses and numbers. Additionally, this can be accessed from any device and even dialed directly by some phones. The vision of people dialing names and not numbers in future is one that BT subscribes to and, as such, .tel is an important offering for our customers.”

Adding to the BT launch news, recognition of the innovation and potential that .tel is bringing to the communications industry has also come from The British Computing Society and IT industry publication Computing, with Telnic being shortlisted as a finalist in the inaugural UK IT Industry Awards in 2009. “The UK is the second largest market for .tel domains after North America, so we’re excited to see the momentum and recognition and support from the technology industry and partners building,” said Justin Hayward, Communications Director for Telnic.

“With the recent interest from individuals in vanity domain names for recognition and branding online, added to the ease of use and low cost, .tel domains can now be a mainstream consideration for individuals, professionals and businesses of all sizes.”

Telnic will also soon be exhibiting at further UK events later this year. More information about .tel domains can be found at ad:tech London on 22nd – 24th September as well as Digital Engagement on 6th October. Telnic also confirmed that it would again be a sponsor of The Business Startup Exhibition on November 26th and 27th at Earls Court Olympia.

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A new solution for text-based advertising listings for the .tel domain, enabling .tel domain owners to use more traditional and measurable domain monetization techniques.

“Whilst .tel domains provide new ways of generating revenue through the support and optimization of premium rate telephone numbers, software downloads, ringtones and competition-based formats, we recognized that those used to traditional monetization methods still felt somewhat restricted,” said Henri Asseily, CTO and Chief Strategist at Telnic Limited. “We have therefore enabled .tel owners to include clearly identifiable, text-based sponsored advertising links. In this way, we maintain the clear purpose of a .tel domain as a single point of contact whilst also meeting the requirements for monetization across all internet-enabled devices.”

The solution has been to introduce a special sub-type of a text (TXT) record with a ‘.tad’ suffix. This is stored in a special folder within the .tel domain. This record contains the title, label, description and URI to use in the advertisement, as well as display settings which enable the domain owner to position the advert in their chosen place on the page (top, bottom or right) when the content is delivered to the proxy page. When the proxy loads a .tel domain, it checks the format and settings of the adverts and displays them accordingly.

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BernardGiraudeau.tel –  Bernard Giraudeau, actor, writer and director has recently got his .tel – reports ToutPointTel, the French-speaking .tel website.

He speaks directly and emotionally, but isn’t too chatty or focused on technical trivia, which is very refreshing for me, somebody who’s been professionally involved in the high-tech industry for so long.

Bernard, what’s your relation with IT, Internet, and technology in general?

None. I’m an old dog, not a fan of tech gadgets in the least. I don’t own an iPhone, I write most of my books by hand, and I’m hardly interested in technology at all.

Then why did you get a .tel?

Because I find it very simple and easy contrary to many complex devices that I gave up on.

You travel a lot. What do you think of SOS1.tel, a .tel website with emergency numbers in 134 countries?

I think it’s an excellent idea because it’s simple and practical. If you’re in trouble, use SOS1.tel and in a few seconds you’re connected to the emergency rescue service that you need.
Of course, the website isn’t of much use to those that, like me, mostly travel in remote areas far from everything. If you’re in the midst of the Philippine jungle, SOS1.tel will be less useful than if you fell victim or witnessed violance in the streets of Manilla. At the same time, Manilla is far more dangerous than the jungle…

Can you comment on your future literary and film projects?

I don’t have any plans at the moment. I’ve just finished promoting my latest book (Cher amour, published by Editions Metailie) and I need some rest. May prepare some lectures, write a bit, but certainly nothing for movies.

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The new thematic top level domain .tel is promising to become the universal contact information directory. Until recently, however, searching the .tel domain was rather tricky and what’s more important – not always successful. But all that is about to change with the launch of Qwista.com, the powerful search engine designed specifically for .tel websites.

Qwista.com makes .tel domain totally searchable, bringing all the .tel data to your fingertips. With Qwista it gets extremely easy to find the contact details of a business or an individual, even if you failed to remember the exact .tel address. The new search engine employs its own proprietary database and algorithm to deliver the most relevant results and comprehensive coverage, allowing its users to fully utilize .tel’s communication capabilities. The advanced language-independent algorithm allows searching pages in any language. Morphological search, ensuring improved relevancy, is already available for English, German and Russian, and it’s only a question of time for other languages.

Initially, .tel pages are not divided into commercial and personal ones, and it complicates search significantly. A user has to make his way through a dozen of various company pages before he finds the page of a new friend, and vice-versa. Qwista addresses this problem, offering the option of searching commercial and personal pages separately. It analyzes the content of a page to include it into one of these two categories, providing the results as accurate as possible in this situation, and thus ensuring comfortable searching experience for a user.

Lightweight, efficient and easy-to-use, Qwista delivers its capabilities in the intuitive interface optimized for mobile devices. With all the advantages offered, the system clearly claims to be the first choice for anyone looking for a reliable .tel search engine.

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Oliver Humpage, Watershed’s ICT Co-ordinator explains how Watershed.tel works. Launched this week, watershed.tel is a strong example of how a .tel domain can be used for near real-time communication in a simple-to- access format. Bristol-based Watershed Media Centre has 3 cinema screens, several events spaces and a Café/Bar, and has lots of events both film and not film.

“Watershed opened in 1982 as Britain’s first dedicated Media Centre – that is, concentrating on photography and the moving image. Watershed’s strength is its ability to mix up creativity, learning, R&D and business in ways which benefit everyone. ”

“The internet is a vital part of Watershed’s activities. We started experimenting with online content in 1999 (we got a symmetric 10Mb internet connection, well before broadband was widespread), and we were one of the first places in Bristol to offer completely free wireless access in our Café/Bar. ”

“As a result of these early experiments we concentrated more and more on online artwork and activities, until we reached a point around 2004 where we made a conscious decision to stop having “traditional” exhibitions in the building at all. http://dshed.net is our online showcase, which is currently undergoing a major redevelopment to help it cope with the sheer quantity of creative output it’s trying to display. ”

“Watershed is a rarity in the arts world, having a relatively large IT department and managing as much IT as possible in-house. This gives us the knowledge and flexibility to experiment with new technologies. A large part of being a successful IT dept relies on having the time and skills available to do R&D, coupled with an underlying recognition that technology is there to help people communicate more easily and more effectively. ” Read more…

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Telnic Limited (www.telnic.org), the registry operator for the new communications-focused .tel top level domain (TLD), today announced that it had released TelStats, its free web traffic measurement service for owners of .tel domains, in beta.

“As .tel domains are not traditional web pages, until now it has not been possible to measure web traffic of a .tel domain,” said Henri Asseily, CTO and Chief Strategist at Telnic, “With the release of TelStats, .tel owners can now add the understanding of who is visiting them over the web as well as how they choose to contact them through the .tel.”

The new TelStats service, accessible from https://telstats.nic.tel enables .tel domain owners to access information on web visits to their .tel domains and import the data into their favourite analytics tools. .tel information has been logged since May 27th onwards and will be stored on a daily basis moving forward.

.tel owners can log in using the TelFriends credentials (gained from http://telfriends.tel) associated with the relevant domain to prevent unauthorized access and then select a period of time to measure. The system will retrieve all the .tel domain names associated with the TelFriends account, providing a log for one, multiple, or all .tel domains.

Analysis can be performed at times of days as well as over longer periods of time. The service is provided as with other Telnic offerings using open source code, enabling .tel owners to call the log script programmatically and feed it into their own front-end solutions.

The current version of the service is in beta, and logs are provided in the standard Apache log format that can be parsed by any web log analyzer to display the data graphically. The list of popular web analyzer tools is on wiki page referenced from the web form. These logs do not include traffic to the domain from Telnic and third-party applications looking up information directly in the DNS.

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Telnic Limited (www.telnic.org), the registry operator for the new communications focused .tel top level domain (TLD), today announced that, as well as being able to view .tel domains in 11 languages on the web, customers can now also manage their .tel domains in those languages from today.

With well over 200,000 .tel domains registered since General Availability on March 24th customers from all over the world have been benefitting from the .tel domain. Languages now supported include English, Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.

“Kebab shops in Algiers and dermatologists in New York through to hotels in Vietnam have all been happily using .tel domains, but we’re very pleased to be able to open the .tel domain up to many more people around the world,” said Justin Hayward, Communications Director at Telnic Limited. “The .tel is a revolution in simplifying and lowering the cost of publishing on the internet under an individual’s own space and we want to remove as many barriers for as many people to take advantage of this as possible.”

User guides have also be translated in conjunction with the control panel, access to which is supplied to .tel registrants through ICANN accredited registrars or .tel service providers. To view the control panel and guides in the language of their choice, users can simply change the settings on their browsers.

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We were the first to notice that the potential of TEL-Domains is much greater than that of any other recently launched TLD!

Almost every day new tools are being presented to expand these possibilities. The .tel domain already even has its own search engine, Jepaa.com, which provides only .tel-page results.

The Swiss company Movetec behind Jepaa and other innovation projects around .tel now presents TEL-MACHINE.com with various useful functions available outside your registrar’s environment. More exciting tools are under development.

You can now use the following functions:

For each of these functions will be available soon, further information and instructions

Sign up today for free and test the first TEL-MACHINE.com Tools.

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Oleg Baskakov is a Java Developer living in Moscow, Russia. He has rich experience in a wide range of software development projects, including development of the mobile client-server platform for social network Gorod Znakomstv (“City of dating”) at Nikita, through to an SMS-delivery system in a MFM Solutions start-up, as well as working on the reporting systems for BNP Paribas bank whilst at software consulting company Neoflex.

He is currently working for premier Russian digital agency Actis Wunderman. However, Oleg is also the person behind bigcity.tel, an innovative .tel domain that automatically updates weather and activity information about big cities around the world.

“Many people remember the computer culture of demo-making in the 90s – a peculiar atmosphere of searching for creative solutions and developing impossible things, driving on the maximum of computer resources. Today, assembler code and byte optimization algorithms have lost their relevance, but in their time they opened new horizons for creative technology. Telnic has demonstrated this type of creativity by making an extraordinary present to all progressive people. Yes, I’m talking about .tel – an innovative take on traditional technologies. The .tel creates a multitude of possibilities for cutting-edge software which, in my opinion, have started a portable revolution in the domain industry.”

“When I first heard about .tel, I didn’t think it was particularly revolutionary, but the spherical image of the .tel logo hypnotized me! I couldn’t resist this power and fell into learning about .tel and its technical specifications. I was soon impressed by the domain’s capabilities and a fire of new ideas on how to leverage .tel blew up my mind, to the extent that I froze my current project for Google Andriod and switched on to .tel.”

“The main objective as I see it of a .tel domain is as a useful management of contact information, but the potential provided by this platform is much greater. bigcity.tel has been planned to expose some of that potential and show everybody how .tel domain owners might develop these opportunities. Sometimes I need certain information about weather and upcoming concerts, but have no computer access.” Read more…

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New Advertising System Enables Entrepreneurs to Monetize .tel Domains Using Third-Party Advertising, Paving the Way for New Monetization Strategies

SYDNEY–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Monetelize Inc. (www.monetelize.com) announced today that it has developed a new ‘Ad Conversion’ system that enables .tel domains to host advertising from ad networks and other third party advertisers.

This new technology will enable entrepreneurs to monetize .tel domains in ways which were previously impossible. Ads from advertising networks can now be displayed within a .tel domain using full-text advertising with hyperlinks.

President, Benny Traub, says, “Our clients can now display ads and earn income with the most common revenue models such as pay per click, pay per lead and pay per sale, enabling them to monetize .tel domains similar to the way dot-coms have been monetized.”

Interested parties can obtain a free copy of the report, ‘Nine Secrets for Monetizing .tel Domains.’ This ground breaking report describes the Ad Conversion system in more detail, as well as numerous other strategies for monetizing .tel domains. The report has been hailed by readers as “a true treasure to .tel owners” and “simply brilliant.”

This Ad Conversion System is the newest component of the TelGooey™ Technology Platform which was developed by Monetelize Inc. to help domain owners deploy and monetize their .tel domains. A sample of the Ad Conversion system in action can be viewed at monetelize.tel.

Monetelize Inc. is a hybrid development and marketing firm that is in the business of deploying and monetizing the new .tel domain on behalf of its clients.

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