.tel Story of Samuël Voet
Samuel Voet, internet entrepreneur from Belgium is the creator and owner of cancel.tel, a free but invaluable service for people who have to cancel their credit cards. Extremely accessible from a simple word over mobile devices, cancel.tel enables people to quickly navigate to the right credit card company and click to communicate with them – a fantastically simple solution to an emotionally-charged action no one likes to perform.
“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. Read more…
