dotteler – dot tel domains

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.

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…

What is a TelCamp?

Organized on the fly by attendees, a TelCamp offers excellent opportunities for networking and learning something new about .Tel technology!

Topics may include, but are not limited to: .Tel technology and how it works, .Tel marketing – proposed and existing methods, startups in this space, discussion about the visual design of .Tels, upcoming or conceptual hardware supporting .Tel and the future of .Tel technology – where we are and where we want to be!

FREE Tel Info Cards ONLY for attendees! Sign up below and if you’re one of the first 10 attendees at the event, you’ll get a set of 40-50 business-card sized “Tel Info Cards”! Hand them over to your friends and family to effectively demonstrate the simplicity of .Tel!

Where?

Boston, MA

We’re looking for appropriate locations (focused at a location within MIT at the moment). Know someplace better? Edit this doc and note it down here!

When?

June 28, 2009 (Sunday) [was earlier Saturday, but shifted due to requests]

Schedule?

10:00 AM onwards – coffee and conversation about EVERYTHING.Tel! :D

Fees?

No way! This is a FREE and open event. No entry charges of any sort (unless our venue location demands it). You just need to pay for any food items you consume.

More Information: http://www.telcampus.org/wiki/TelCampBoston

Marketing and advertising agency Industrial Web Solutions (www.industrialwebsolutions.com), headquartered in Charlotte, NC, introduces the first ever industrial search engine leveraging .tel communications technology.

IndustrialWebSearch.com is a powerful, proprietary industrial search tool built by AIMG for Industrial Web Solutions, Inc. and designed specifically to serve the industrial marketplace.

IndustrialWebSearch.com introduces industrial buyers and sellers to the power of .tel through the comfort and familiarity of a .com website. Leveraging .tel technology, the search tool simplifies access to the full array of member seller contact information, making it easy for a buyer to connect with a seller. Based on the principals of a user-driven Web 2.0 community, IndustrialWebSearch.com provides buyers with qualified seller contact matches by bridging the gap between how a buyer searches and how a seller refers to what he offers.

Sellers have full control over contact information and associating descriptive tags (keyword phrases) they feel accurately represent their products / services.  As they assign these tags, the search tool provides suggestions based on search terms typed in by users, allowing the seller to learn and immediately incorporate the language used  by his potential buyers to find him. This allows for the strongest match possible between seller and buyer, increasing conversion to sales opportunities for sellers while the .tel provides buyers with contact information that allows for the fastest, easiest and most convenient communications. Read more…

This year’s exclusive Hollywood Movie Celebration Weekend Party on Friday 29th May, hosted by television personalities Sway Calloway & Tim Kash, will have an added dimension to it through the participation of .tel.

Stacked with a performance from Now Wave Rock Band ‘KUDU’ whose drummer, Deantoni Parks, is featured in Mark Ruffalos’ New film “Sympathy For Delicious”, this year’s Movie Celebration Weekend Party will be haute!

.tel is the hot new online service which has sold over 200,000 accounts in the six weeks since its launch. Telnic, the company behind .tel, is joining a handpicked selection of other key sponsors with Sway and Tim on the red carpet and then will be partying with exclusive A-list celebrities, artists and musicians into the night. Guests will be provided with .tel accounts so that they can get the benefit from ‘the new way to communicate’ and securely share all the ways they want their fans, friends and acquaintances to interact with them. So, whether it’s Twitter or the telephone, they’ll be in control of how people can reach them to congratulate and celebrate with them this Movie weekend! Photographs of the red carpet will be available after the event on request from news@telnic.org.

1. Venue, Stone Rose http://www.stonerosela.com/, 8555 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles, 90048 (located across from Beverly Center)
2. Hosted by Sway and the cast of ‘Sympathy for Delicious’ (including confirmed guests, Orlando Bloom, Juliette Lewis and Mark Ruffalo)
3. Special live performance, introduced by Orlando Bloom, of soundtrack artist, KUDU, http://www.myspace.com/kudu
4. Special live performance by DJ Kudi

.tel Story of the Olympians

Being on the move all the time means that current and retired Olympians are never in the same spot for long. Here are just some of the stars from the United States that are using .tel to keep in touch with friends, family and fans.

amandabeard.tel –  Model and Olympic Gold medal winning swimmer Amanda Beard is also a photographer, sports presenter and spokeswoman for several animal rights groups. Beard made her first Olympic appearance at the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games at the age of 14 and since then has captured a total of seven medals at four Olympic Games. Amanda says: “I always like to stay in touch and be accessible to my family and friends. Being on the road and splitting time between two homes, I need to be able to easily change my contact info and .tel makes it easy for me to point people in the right direction.”

cobijones.tel – Cobi Jones is a Southern California sports legend, scoring the first goal for the LA Galaxy and keeping the title of the longest standing member of the MLS dynasty as a 12-year player for the club and now in his second season as assistant coach. A two-time MLS Cup winner (2002 and 2005), Jones also was a permanent fixture with the US Men’s National Soccer Team from 1992-2004, playing in three consecutive World Cups (1994, 1998, 2002) and representing the US at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. Jones then went on to play overseas in both Europe and South America, spending time with Coventry City of the English Premier League and Brazilian side Vasco de Gama before heading to MLS. Jones, considered to be one of the best soccer players the US has ever produced, works closely with youth soccer organizations around the US as an ambassador to HOLA, Cal South (inducted in the Cal South Hall of Fame in 2009), AYSO, US Soccer Foundation and AmericaSCORES.

allisonbaver.tel – Two-time Olympian Allison Baver is an American short track speed skater. She is currently training hard in Colorado Springs, CO to achieve her goal of winning four gold medals at the Winter Olympics in Vancouver in 2010. Allison says: “I always like to be accessible to my family, friends, and people who like to come and watch me compete. I also need to be able to easily change my contact info whenever I find a new social networking site, or want to link to a new event .Tel makes it easy for me to point people in the right direction – to my official site, to my Facebook page, or any other communication channel. I also can set up a private area and share my personal contact info just with my friends.”

summersanders.tel – Summer Sanders is a retired Olympic gold medalist in swimming, sports broadcaster and also appeared in Jerry Maguire (1996). At the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain, she won gold medals in the 200-meter butterfly and in the 400-meter medley relay. She also won a silver medal in the 200-meter individual medley and a bronze medal in the 400-meter individual medley. She also co-hosted Skating With Celebrities on the Fox television network in 2006. courtesy http://telnic.org

New site aims to become the most user friendly free online guitar chords (http://guitarchords.tel) book for guitarists around the world thanks to the latest domain name technology called dot Tel. While there are many websites where guitarists can find chords online, most are graphic intensive and are not well optimized for mobile devices. The creator of the new dot tel site, Eric Ha, who is a beginning guitar player himself put the site guitarchords.tel together so he and others can find guitar chords easily. Eric uses an almost four year old phone, but can find chords with it at the new site faster than searching with a computer at a traditional website.

The .tel domain extension operated by Telnic is different from all other domain extensions such as .com and .org because pages are easy to set up and load fast. Registrants of a .tel domain populate their web pages by typing their content in a form and the content is entered directly into the DNS. Due to this revolutionary method of storing online data, pages are downloaded extremely quickly even from a mobile device. This new method of storing data also eliminates the requirement of webhosting, programming and web designing in order to establish an online presence thus saving individuals and businesses a lot of money. Read more…

Monetelize Inc. announced today that it has completed version 1.0 of TelGooey™, a software application that automates many of the functions of .tel domain management.

TelGooey™ software will serve as the backbone to a suite of deployment and monetization services that the company plans to introduce to the market this year. The application will initially be released as ‘software as a service’, targeted to entrepreneurial domain owners wishing to monetize their domains, and corporate entities with complex directory structures.

TelGooey™ software will speed deployment time for domain owners who wish to import a large number of records into their domain. This is particularly helpful to those who need to create a directory.

TelGooey™ will also reduce maintenance time for large domains by synchronizing online contact information with data stored in external databases. Monetelize is working closely with Telnic’s technical team to ensure compatibility. Read more…

Here’s what the press have said about .tel already:
“The Google of Online Phone Books” – CNN/Fortune
“Think of .tel as a ‘live’ global white/yellow pages directory or communications hub that crucially leaves control of the contact and other information in the hands of the domain owner who can set different levels of access for different visitors.” – The Financial Times
“The new domain, which stores and encrypts contact information directly into the Domain Name System, has the potential to become a phone book for the Internet.” – New York Times
“Owners of .tel domains will be able to manage their contact details via a simple dashboard and surrender as much or as little information as they desire.” – BBC News

IT veteran François Amigorena is no stranger to technology, having worked in the business for twenty-six years. With experience in companies such as IBM, Société Générale and now as CEO of IS Decisions (http://isdecisions.tel/), a software company specializing in security and change management solutions, he has a renewed excitement for technology and new sense of adventure with the innovative and simple .tel. He is the founder of TourPointTel, the French-speaking .tel community website.

“I have been working in the IT business for the past 26 years. After graduating a French Business School, I joined IBM as a Sales Rep in 1983, then became Business Development Manager for a subsidiary of Société Générale (one of the largest French Bank) specializing in large computer systems leasing. I then became an entrepreneur in the late 80s. I am now President and CEO of IS Decisions, a Security Software Vendor.”

“I discovered .tel reading an article on the Web in February 2009 and I immediately became enthusiastic about the brilliantly simple and innovative concept, and decided that I had to be part of this new adventure.” Read more…