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.

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.

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.

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.

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…

Digitrad is a Unified Communications Platform.
Voice and telephony market is huge, estimated to top 3 trillion USD. The problem today is that communications are everywhere, the result is we have too many different identities.
What Digitrad does is simple:
Digitrad simplifies the way people communicate by using their name as a single point of contact.
Digitrad makes it possible by using the infrastructure of the .tel which is the first domain name dedicated to communications and combining the features of the different social networks and IMs you are using everyday.

Digitrad Presentation French Tech Tour 2009 from Micha Benoliel on Vimeo.

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…

Lynne Franks, Businesswoman, Author and Founder of the SEED Network, www.seednetworkingforwomen.com, is no stranger to understanding what it takes to be discovered. Starting her own PR agency at her kitchen table at the age of 21, she then went on to found London Fashion Week, created the London event ‘What Women Want’ in 1995, and subsequently travelled the world working with multinational corporations, civil servants, bureaucrats and grassroots organizations to draw attention to the changing position of women in society.

After helping Telnic to raise awareness of .tel in the UK at the launch earlier this year, Lynne realized that her members – and through them, women’s charities – would benefit from .tel as well. Here, she explains her thoughts on .tel, the internet and doing business the feminine way:

“I was delighted when I was first invited to be a spokesperson for .tel, which is the most dynamic global directory in cyber space. It has subsequently made perfect sense to create a partnership between my SEED community of women entrepreneurs and .tel which will ensure that both personally and professionally our members can be accessible and contactable very easily as well as having their search engine results maximised. .tel also enables SEED women to find the necessary business resources that they need, too – a win-win situation.”

“The most important thing in today’s business environment for small businesses or people starting out in business on their own is the need to be seen and the need to be found. It’s a highly competitive world and you need to be as visible as possible. We live in the communication age and we can’t do anything without making connections. We need to know how to get to others – and how they can get to us. Read more…

Anthony Richardson is one of the UK’s leading commercial voiceover artists. After leaving school at 17, he trained as a sound technician at The Royal National Theatre in London, and on a few occasions was asked to do small vocal parts for sound effects in the various shows that were “in rep” at the time. Having always been interested in acting and recording so it seemed like a logical step, to combine the two, and become a voiceover. He is the proud (and profitable) owner of overvoice.tel  as well as a Qualified Google Advertising Professional.

“I have been lucky enough to have been chosen for a number of high profile gigs in the industry and have recorded commercials for the likes of Pepsi and McCoys, introduced Bill Gates on stage for his Microsoft “farewell” tour, voiced a number of animation characters for various US and UK-based studios. And I am also the voice of the “talking signs” for hospitals and Police Forces across the UK – but my favourite gig is always paying a visit to Stephen Fry’s charity, Listening Books where I record audiobooks for blind and partially sighted kids. Great fun, and my kids generally get to keep the actual paper copies of the books I read. I have to say though, I did enjoy having to sing Auld Lang Sine as a “comedy Elvis” for next year’s New Years greeting cards recently.

“Being discovered on the Internet is essential for me – it’s the only way potential new clients can see me and hear what I do. Even when I am recommended by someone, it’s much easier for them to just say: “click on OverVoice.tel” rather than have to remember all my details. I would say that most of my business now comes from the Internet in some shape or form. Nearly everyone sits down in front of a PC, at some point in the day, and there I am! Read more…

Free .tel seminars for entrepreneurs will be offered by Telnic at the Business Startup Exhibition (www.bstartup.com) in London’s ExCeL Centre on 28th and 29th May.

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.”