Following the announcement in August at TelCamp Toronto of a new type of record being made available to .tel owners to store TelAds in the DNS, the web proxy has now been enhanced to display TelAds in a format appropriate for both PC-based and mobile device-based browsers. Up to twelve ads or pieces of related content can be hosted per .tel sub-folder, with a .tel domain supporting up to 3,000 sub-folders.

These sponsored link TelAds and related content records will enable .tel owners to further monetize their .tel domains, either through pay-per-click or pay-per-call links. Additionally, text-based content can be served to these records, enabling .tel domain owners to sign up to automated content providers and easily refresh the content on their .tel domains to enable better search engine optimization and re-indexing.

A whitepaper enabling .tel owners to find out more about TelAds can be found at http://dev.telnic.org/docs/advertisements.pdf. A paper is also available for potential ad serving networks and related content providers discussing how to identify and deliver appropriate content to .tel domains at http://telnic.org/downloads/tel-ads.pdf

A free tool is available for inserting adverts onto any .tel domain. In fact, you can insert up to 12 adverts per folder, and with a max of 3,000 folders per site, theoretically you can have thousands of ads inside one tel domain.

http://www.ads4.tel

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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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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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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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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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Samuel Voet, internet entrepreneur from Belgium

“At first when .tel launched I was looking for interesting names and while trying to understand what .tel could be used for and what it was all about I registered a few names. Some are very good and will find their usage in the future. Cancel.tel is something different. I didn’t even register that name during the first day of .tel going public, but when I noticed it after a few days for some reason it caught my attention.

“People use their phones to take care of business, so then I tried to find a link between the domain cancel.tel and how this could be used in a good way with the .tel platform. I am convinced that .tel has a lot of power and could mean something important in the age of mobile telephones. Of course, you have the directory-style applications on things like realestate.tel and phonebook.tel, and it allows a great form of branding for companies and celebrities. If .tel becomes more important in the future it will have a significant amount of value for people and companies. Cancel.tel is a bit different from all those things. It doesn’t promote anything, but I decided to turn it into a service instead.

“This service can be used by anyone around the globe and will assist people because it uses the strength of what .tel has to offer. It makes use of the simple and easy-to-remember word compared to multiple complex telephone numbers. It is very easy and fast, excellent to navigate on a mobile phone when a person is not at home where they might use a normal phone book, a computer or all kinds of other help devices.

“People don’t have to think when they are in a certain mental state (they’ve just lost personal documents, ID, bank cards) so .tel allows to make use of a simple word to get instantly connected (with one press of a button) with the credit card service of their choice. It’s even more simple than calling an emergency number.

“Cancel.tel isn’t really a business project. If I can assist hundreds or thousands of people each year, save people tons of hassle and money with a simple domain name that costs under ten dollars then it’s better to keep it as a service.

“I know at this stage there will not be many solutions or services on .tel which will have such an “interesting” service. If you take fire.tel, it could be a way to contact a fire department on a global scale, still people will just call the emergency services in case of a fire. So it really isn’t that obvious to come up with .tel related services.

“But if a government registered swineflu.tel and then put out a commercial on television where they make use of the .tel name and people could just call if they see something suspicious. If the government used a normal phone number they would need to broadcast many more commercials because they would be forced to put the number out for people to remember, or to make sure people would write it down. With swineflu.tel, just as with cancel.tel, the number is replaced by an extremely easy to remember word.

“Cancel.tel was created in a strange way, almost unintended for what it became, now it’s there, people like it, I receive mails from people telling me how much they appreciate the site. It’s so simple but it does what it needs to do, almost like a spoon or a cup to drink water. In a way, cancel.tel just demonstrates all the aspects (almost all the aspects) of a .tel domain name and what it can be.”

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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.

President and CEO Joe DeMicco says, “IndustrialWebSearch.com was developed to help manufacturing company representatives assigned the task of researching companies to manufacture or supply a product or service find and contact viable options.  The search tool saves both the buyers and the sellers a lot of time. Unlike
traditional search engines and directories, it is not controlled by categories and sub-categories or a mysterious, ever-changing algorithm. It is 100% populated by industrial and commercial buyers and sellers searching and tagging content respectively!  Because we offer both a desktop and mobile version, IndustrialWebSearch.com and IndustrialWebsearch.mobi (launching early June, 2009), the.tel technology makes it possible for buyers to place a call with a single click from their mobile phone while standing in front of a malfunctioning conveyor system on the plant floor, for example. We believe IndustrialWebSearch.com with .tel technology represents the future of industrial search, providing sellers with the easiest, fastest and most convenient way to help buyers to search, find and
connect with them using a single tool.”

IndustrialWebSearch.com is actually part of a group of services developed by a team of industrial marketing specialists at Industrial Web Solutions.

Membership to IndustrialWebSearch.com offers many benefits including listings in both IndustrialWebSearch.com and IndustrialWebSearch.mobi, additional listings at IWS.tel, marketing tips from the online blog IndustrialWebTalk.com, and member discounts for web design and marketing services through Industrial Web Solutions. An overview is available at IWSOnline.com.

Companies can take advantage of the limited time special introductory offer that includes one year of membership to IndustrialWebSearch.com, including IndustrialWebSearch.mobi for mobile search, and the free registration of a .tel domain for a very reasonable $375. DeMicco adds, “For less than half the price of a cup of coffee a day, sellers have the opportunity to be found and contacted by buyers who represent strong leads because the seller has already matched most of the buyer’s search criteria. All that’s left to do is negotiate price and details.”

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The sessions will run at lunchtime on both days by successful Entrepreneur and now Chief Strategist of Telnic Henri Asseily. Telnic, which is the sole sponsor for all of the seminar halls at the exhibition, will also be answering questions on Stand 534. Telnic partners, including domainmonster.com (www.domainmonster.com), will also be at the show selling .tel domains.

Small businesses and independent traders from removal companies (http://removals.tel) through to radio voice-over artists (http://overvoice.tel) are benefitting today from .tel domains in the UK and globally. .tel domains provide small businesses with a host of features, including:

• A presence on the internet under their control without the need to build or pay for a website
• Great search engine optimization features built in to help deliver better search results
• A comprehensive listing in a global directory of .tel domains which can be accessed from any device, quickly and at very low cost
• The ability to change contact information quickly and easily from handheld devices
• Integrating ‘live’ .tel information into ‘contact us’ pages for existing websites

“As a small business ourselves we know how important it is to be available for customers especially in this economic climate,” said Justin Hayward, Communications Director at Telnic. “Small businesses, whilst they can adopt social media tools and use social networking to spread the message, still rely on good old-fashioned conversations with customers as well. .tel can provide the small business owner with an easy way to manage all of those interaction points and enhance customer service at the same time.”

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Most phone companies offer this service, which gives you a tracking phone number that you put into .tel. When somebody uses that number, the call is forwarded to your actual line, but call duration and the total number of calls is tracked by the phone company. You then get a report with all the data to demonstrate how your .tel phone line is working.

If your phone company does not provide the service you need, setup a tracking line forwarded to a toll-free number, which will provide you with similar statistics. Most phone companies charge for the tracking number service, but it’s usually a relatively small investment that can give you a lot of useful information.

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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.

“Our technical team has confirmed the functionality of TelGooey”, says Henri Asseily, CTO of Telnic. “TelGooey is a powerful tool for creating large or complex domains and synchronizing online data with offline databases”.

Recent availability of .tel-friendly applications are paving the way for this communication-focused domain to becoming a new world standard for storing and accessing contact information. The .tel now provides a single point of contact in any Outlook, Blackberry or iPhone address book, making the .tel the last entry you’ll ever need to make. Free .tel software for Outlook, Blackberry and iPhone can be downloaded at http://telnic.com/community-applications.html or http://apps.telnic.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.

For more information, visit http://monetelize.com or http://telnic.org

Monetelize™ and TelGooey™ are trademarks of Monetelize Inc.

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