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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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Telnic will be on Stand 828, showing trademark owners and managers how they can:

• Present all the ways their customers in all countries can contact them from any device

• Quickly publish new contact points and links to further information in times of business growth or crisis

• Use the .tel domain as an innovative communications platform for live news updates and social media press releases, which can jump straight into people’s address books

• Publish links to other content, such as software downloads or vouchers for mobile devices Telnic’s free, open source software for the BlackBerry, iPhone and Microsoft Outlook which integrate .tel information directly into the address book and enables simple management of .tel domains from native applications, will also be showcased on the stand.

“A .tel domain can be set up to work for your business in just five minutes presenting a rich set of contact points that customers can use to contact you from any device connected to the internet,” explains Justin Hayward, Communications Director at Telnic Limited. “Any .tel owner that would like to see how this can be done with their .tel domain can visit the stand and I’ll be happy to help them get started within minutes.”

Additionally, Telnic will also be demonstrating third party applications such as voipGATE’s softphone, which enables direct .tel domain look-up and automatic calling of one public number from inside the application.

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Russell Perkins, Founder of InfoCommerce Group, said: “Telnic is making a play to become a central destination for business and personal contact information with an approach that literally embeds this content into the infrastructure of the Internet, creating an online directory that offers blazingly fast response and can be accessed without even using a web browser. This is an incredibly innovative and powerful idea with huge potential.”

The InfoCommerce Models of Excellence highlight and profile industry exemplars to show how real revenue is generated by selling and distributing information online. These “exemplars” are announced to the media and showcased at the annual DataContent conference, culminating in their annual Models of Excellence awards dinner held as part of the Data Content ‘09 conference in October 2009. Henri Asseily, CTO and Chief Strategist at Telnic will be participating in the kick-off panel for the conference that will showcase those products that demonstrate how innovation meets excellence.

The first global directory accessible from any device connected to the internet made possible by .tel domains delivers a new way of information access, entirely managed and published by the .tel domain owner. This dynamic, ‘live’ information delivery enables people to quickly update their contact information, keywords, location records and unlimited links in their domain, publishing the information directly to the internet and enabling access by computers and devices over the web or directly from address books through free and open source applications.

InfoCommerce Group Inc. (ICG) was formed in 1995 to address the radical transformation of the information industry that was occurring, by providing guidance, research and advice to producers of commercial database content. Over the last ten years, ICG has established itself as the thought leader in exploring, charting, analyzing and defining the most important issues reshaping the database business. More information about .tel domains can be found at http://www.telnic.org.

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(Fortune Small Business) — Imagine this: Your business just relocated and you’re frustrated. Whenever potential customers hunt for your phone number online, they come up with digits that are out of date.

Now picture this: Consumers have instant access to your contact information through a global directory that you can update in real time. You never have to worry about losing touch. That’s what the future will look like if Telnic, a Web registry operator based in London, has anything to say about it.

Telnic is rolling out a new top-level domain service with URLs that end in .tel. These domains are strictly limited to publishing contact information – phone numbers, street and e-mail addresses, Skype handles, home page URLs and the like.

“Basically, .tel makes contacts live,” says Khashayar Mahdavi, CEO of Telnic. “Domain registries are the fastest, most robust means of communicating on the Internet, and now we have dedicated them strictly to contact information. You enter the data once, and it’s accurate everywhere.”

If his idea takes off, Mahdavi hopes that .tel-enabled data will become accessible from a vast range of entry points – not just through standard Web browsers but also on digital devices ranging from cell phones to smart navigation systems.

Attractive as that may sound, deploying the technology will be a challenge. Web users are resistant to domains other than .com. The vast majority of alternatives – like .jobs, .name and .tv – have been spectacular flops.

“Telnic’s plan is brilliantly simple,” says Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, a technology consultancy in San Jose. “But the problem is that it goes against existing practice.”

For the general public, .tel registration opened March 24 through dozens of Web resellers, including Network Solutions and Dotster. Don’t be surprised if someone has already snapped up your favorite domain names: Trademark-holding businesses willing to pay premium prices got first dibs on them four months ago.

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