Pues sí, yo he comprado un dominio .tel, porque por 7 euros al año, soy yo quien tengo el control.

Todas las redes sociales están bien, pero el control lo tienen otros, por lo que el riesgo de tu trabajo es enorme, sin embargo con los dominios .tel, por unos euros al año, tienes tú, el control de tu marca, DE POR VIDA.

 

Navigation Nightmare The Deadly Danger of Facebook, Twitter, Google and the iPhone

By Tim Schumacher

Possessing a memorable domain name is still considered to be an essential component to any successful business - especially any successful online business. To prove this, just do the "billboard test" anywhere in the world: look at a billboard, or any other company advertising, and most likely you will see the company's or its product's domain name.

However, in recent months, an interesting development has started to occur around the globe. Look around, very often you'll see, especially with companies that consider themselves trend setters, domain names starting to disappear or move into the background. Instead, companies now advertise their Facebook landing page, Twitter handles or even their iPhone application. Furthermore, these companies' web sites and existing communications are being used to promote these new marketing channels.

I recently realized that I've been encouraging the very same behavior at my own company. Why shouldn't we be considering ourselves trend setters in our respective industry? So, besides promoting our web site, we too have started advertising our Twitter account and Facebook page. We also advertise on Google, Yahoo and Bing, and even our own iPhone app will be announced in the near future. So entrenched have we become in those efforts, that we, just like almost any company out there, have lost sight of what extreme long-term danger looms on the horizon: namely the "Navigation Nightmare."

Here's the problem: While it's smart and Web 2.0 trendy to use all of the above channels as additional means of advertising and building customer loyalty, it's inherently wrong and even dangerous to use them as a means of navigation. Why? Because all the power is being put in the hands of the providers.

When people start using these different channels to navigate, what occurs is an inherent loss of control, causing potentially massive costs which can go as far as wiping out an entire company's profits. In all four examples – Facebook, Twitter, Google and the iPhone – businesses put their entire fate into the control of each of those providers. As a result, the following three things can then happen:

 

1. Providers can kick any business or even an entire industry out of its network, with or without reason. Consider Apple's adult ban – while the pros and cons of the act itself can be debated, it certainly shows how an entire industry is at the mercy of a giant;
   
   
2. Providers can go out of business, and there is no regulative environment in place. Seem unlikely? Remember FortuneCity or Geocities? They were the over-hyped early predecessors of social communities offering easy site hosting. Nevertheless, Yahoo terminated Geocities in 2009 – after having bought it for a whopping $2.87 billion in 1999.
   
   
3. Probably the biggest threat is how providers can and will maximize profits, once lock-in is sufficiently big, and profitability goals will follow growth goals. If your company has a million Facebook or Twitter followers, how good will your negotiation position be if suddenly the provider starts charging hefty fees? If you have tons of happy iPhone users on your app, how good will your negotiation position be if Apple suddenly wants a slice of all of your transactions? If you get all your business leads through Google, how good will your negotiation position be if suddenly you will no longer be listed in the organic search, but instead, Google offers your company to appear on top of the results for a fee?

All of the above threats are very real, yet still seem to be very much ignored amidst all of the current hype.

Facebook, Twitter, Google's Ad Network and iPhone Apps are proprietary walled-garden approaches, which are not what the Internet needs, and inherently present a danger for any business relying on these channels for navigation and domain addressing mechanisms.

Building an online business on top of Facebook, Twitter, Google or iPhone Apps, is like building a house on rented ground, with the landlord being in complete control. Like many renters, one day you might hear your fees have just skyrocketed in the matter of seconds. Don't let that happen to you. Otherwise, you can all but hope that history repeats itself and that innovative newcomers will continue to challenge the position of those walled-gardens.

While Facebook and Twitter are excellent networking tools that can have a tremendously positive effect on your business, they should not be the central hub of your communications efforts. In order to put the control back in your hands and eliminate any potential threats to your business, your domain should be the one location to which all other channels should link.

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Navigating change

January 17th, 2011

Or: controlling contact points in a changing marketing environment

A colleague recently sent me a link to a blog post regarding the New York Times' celebration of its 80-year anniversary in 1931. It commissioned the leading business, scientific and philosophical thinkers of the time and asked them to predict what the world would look like in 80 years time, so what 2011 would look like.  Whilst a selection of these is only available here and I hope more will be released by the NYT soon, some of those predictions highlights are incredibly close, and I'd encourage you to read them at your leisure.

What struck me when reading these was, not that each and every one of them had applied their minds to something so far beyond them as to imagine a world that they would never be able to see, but to understand that all of their predictions came from a fundamental notion that the one constant that they could rely on was change.

Who's going to drive you home tonight?

In 2010, we're so used to change, we perhaps forget that it is happening at all!  Incremental change and incremental innovation surround us, perhaps nowhere moreso than within the technology and devices that are inherently changing our lives at a microscopic level.  Gesture-based gaming, internet connectivity in airplanes, touch screen smart phones, self-driving cars (OK, some not so small changes in that last one!) have all emerged and crept up on us over the past two or three years, making us think how on earth we survived before they were around.

And yet, in all of this, the need to remember that things can change and change quickly seems to have been forgotten when it comes to our perspective within business and communications.  One of very few lone voices caught our attention here at Telnic highlighting the potential concern of forgetting that change is inevitable.  A recent post by Tim Schumacher over at SEDO clearly and comprehensively outlined the threat to businesses (and indeed, professionals) of believing in the hype of social networks in being all-powerful and omnipresent and committing brand suicide by "advertising their Facebook landing pages, Twitter handles or even their iPhone applications"on billboards.

Smile and the whole world smiles with you

Don't get me wrong.  Social media is fantastic at many things and driving interest, awareness and, in some instances, sales is much easier in the connected marketplace.  The reach and acceleration of communication, some good, some bad, has at no other time had such an impact on people's awareness and ability to communicate what they think about particular brands than through social media platforms.

What is not so positive is the level of immersion to which brands, often guided by those who are being paid to promote the business rather than to secure their long-term future, are being held.  By ceding control of your direct relationship with your customers, the Emperor's new clothes of today becomes the company that sheds its existing brand and adopts the transparent overcoat of social media, exposing what's left behind and with the salesman of the overcoat pointing and laughing all the way to the next customer!

No brand, large or small, needs to lose control to this extent.  Tim's clear articulation of the threat and his summary point to the fact that these are "proprietary walled-garden approaches" and thus are not directly addressable from the open web.  This is fair enough and completely true; any independence is ceded to these so-called networks and it is a requirement that in order to connect, you join and play by their rules (which they can change at any time), effectively putting a middle-man in control of your relationship with potential fans or customers.  If this is the future of doing business, why are many companies that have previously sold through indirect channels trying to set up direct models now?

Danger, Will Robinson!

Not only is it dangerous to lose control of the point of contact with your customer (and sometimes the connection completely, as per the recent downtime for Facebook  - I wonder how many customers were lost to those advertising solely their Facebook pages on television that day?), but it's also dangerous to forget the change factor.  Social media is of course today the darling of the web, but just how long is that going to last?  Facebook and QQ are dominant networks in their regions, but so is Skype in terms of size (and in terms of the risks that one proprietary network faces – do we see a trend here?).  What happens if charging models change for internet access or companies or Governments decide that the productivity of the country or organization is at stake (Facebook is the most blocked site on the internet according to a recent study by one DNS service provider, closely followed by MySpace)?  What happens if, heaven forbid, today's social network de jour becomes tomorrow's Friendster or Friends Reunited?  Suddenly, your business is a piece of furniture in an empty house where the party goers have gone somewhere cooler, and you're put out in a yard sale.

Time waits for nobody

Back to Tim at SEDO: "Providers can go out of business, and there is no regulative environment in place.  Seems unlikely? Remember FortuneCity or Geocities?  They were the over-hyped early predecessors of social communities offering easy site hosting.  Nevertheless, Yahoo terminated Geocities in 2009 – after having bought it for a whopping $2.87 billion in 1999."

The sad fact is that in the online industry, $2.87 billion is small change in the VC world, but back then it was a significant investment.  We're seeing market valuations of ten times that number when we talk about today's leading social network.  But we've also seen that even in the case of the largest financial institutions, no organization is 'too big to fail' any more.  With the recent down-sizing of MySpace in an attempt to provoke a sale, these timescales for failure seem to be compacting.

Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes (turn to face the strain)

So the key to all of this is to accept and plan for change.  One way of doing that is to insure against being overly damaged by that change.  Ownership of your points of contact, as Tim says, is critical in all of this.  It costs little to own your own domain name and renew it annually.  It costs little more than time to own and use a .tel as a point of contact whilst still enjoying the noise and fun that participating in social media is today whilst it's free and whilst it continues to drive business.  Planning for change is critical to survival.  As Professor Peter Drucker wrote, coincidentally in a book published in 1999, "Everybody has accepted by now that change is unavoidable. But that still implies that change is like death and taxes — it should be postponed as long as possible and no change would be vastly preferable. But in a period of upheaval, such as the one we are living in, change is the norm."

Now that's one piece of advice that shouldn't change over time.

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Dominios .tel

Publicado por Josemi

 

Hace unos años, aparecieron los dominios de primer nivel .tel.

Es un dominio curioso, ya que se trata de una entrada directamente en un DNS, por lo que no tiene que estar alojada en un servidor web y se actualiza en tiempo real.

Es como una tarjeta de visita virtual, (incluso descargable en formato vCard) donde poder poner nuestros datos de contacto: el teléfono, el móvil, cuentas de correo, de skype, twitter, …. páginas web, blogs, etc, etc… teniendo dos niveles de seguridad, el público al que todo el mundo puede acceder y el privado donde sólo podrá acceder la gente a la que le des permiso.

Están saliendo herramientas para poder utilizarlo directamente en los móviles, y agendas para tener actualizados siempre los contactos, ¿que un amigo se ha cambiado de número de teléfono? no importa, con que actualice su dominio.tel, sus datos de contacto se actualizarán en todas las agendas.

Y no solo es eso, también tiene algunos usos empresariales, ya que se puede navegar a través de ellos, por ejemplo, dentro de empresa.tel están empleado1.tel, empleado2.tel, … ó incluso dentro de departamento1.empresa.tel, así que si queremos saber cual es el teléfono y la persona encargada del departamento de compras, sólo tenemos que ir navegando por su página.tel

Otro uso que se podría hacer de forma empresarial sería para los concursos de la tele, tipo concurso de talentos, para votar por los participantes, en vez de recordar el número de teléfono y la palabra clave, podrías entrar en concurso.cadena.tel (desde tu móvil) y pulsar en el botón del participante que te gustara y eso enviaría un SMS de 1'5€ con tu voto.

Si quereis saber algo más, podeis visitar la página de Telnic, y aquí http://my-idol.tel/ teneis un ejemplo del concurso.

En fin, yo por si acaso, me he sacado mi dominio jmvilaplana.tel

Un nuevo pasito, o gran paso para los dominios .tel

La ICANN aprueba los nombres de dominio .tel cortos y únicamente numéricos

LONDRES, 28 de enero de 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Telnic Limited (http://telnic.tel), el operador de registro para el dominio de primer nivel (TLD, por sus siglas en inglés) .tel, anunció hoy que, luego de la reunión del Consejo de la ICANN realizada en enero de 2011, dicha institución aprobó el registro de nombres de dominios .tel cortos (como por ejemplo, jj.tel) y únicamente numéricos (como por ejemplo 442074676450.tel u 88.tel).

"Me gustaría agradecer al Consejo y al personal de la ICANN por considerar nuestras recientes solicitudes y permitir más opciones para las empresas y los individuos que procuran registrar sus dominios .tel", afirmó Khashayar Mahdavi, CEO de Telnic. "En un futuro cercano, las organizaciones con marcas comerciales compuestas sólo por números, o las marcas de dos letras, podrán registrar sus nombres .tel y las personas podrán obtener números exclusivos o de la suerte como un divertido identificador online".

Los detalles acerca de cómo registrar nombres de dominio .tel cortos y únicamente numéricos estarán a disposición en breve. No estarán disponibles para registro los caracteres ASCII individuales (como por ejemplo x.tel), los dígitos individuales (como por ejemplo 3.tel) y los nombres que puedan confundirse con extensiones de dominios de primer nivel (conocidos como ccTLD, como por ejemplo .us o .uk).

Más de 300.000 nombres .tel han sido registrados hasta la fecha en más de 180 países. Si desea más información acerca de los nombres .tel y Telnic, ingrese a http://telnic.org o encuentra la información de contacto en http://telnic.tel.

Acerca de Telnic: http://about.telnic.tel

Contacto con los medios: Justin Hayward, de Telnic - http://justin.tel

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CONTACTO: Justin Hayward, de Telnic, http://justin.tel

Sitio Web: http://telnic.tel/

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Si crees que puedes realizar un buen diseño de plantilla para un dominio .tel , participa en el concurso.

Competition: A new .tel look for a new decade

When it comes to design, taste can be very subjective. Realizing a design in real-life technology solutions can also be challenging.

That said, the team at Telnic always relishes a challenge and there's nothing like a new year (and a new decade) to take a fresh look at things! So, with that in mind, we're kicking off a design competition for the community to submit a new .tel template for computer browsers. Not only will you win the chance for your template to be used by the entire .tel community, you'll also win a cash prize.

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We'd like you to design a universal template that reflects the spirit and purpose of .tel as the super-fast online presence that is global, efficient, easy and accessible. The winning design(s) are intended to be incorporated into the template gallery that .tel owners can choose from.

Your design may be strictly corporate, awesomely funky or anywhere in between. You can re-use as many elements of the existing templates as you wish, or create an entirely different design - the sky's the limit! To see some examples, take a look at some selections at our .tel of the week winners. To see a .tel with all of the elements possible displayed, visit http://nowthatwasfast.tel.

Requirements

The width of the page is 728px and the information is displayed in two columns with the Left Column being 450px and the Right Column being 256px. You may provide a design with an alternative layout if you wish. Similarly, the current design has the owner's image at 78x78px in size, which is customary for an online avatar.

Ideally, it should support the ability for the .tel owner to change the colour scheme in line with existing options.

The submitted design should not include any video, flash-based or other interactive media or widgets that aren't supported on existing .tel templates today or that cannot be visually represented in the submitted static design. it should be as lightweight as possible to maintain speed of delivery over low bandwidth connections.

You may wish to suggest additional features such as social sharing tools, etc.

Design elements

A successful submission needs to include design support for all of the following elements that .tel owners need to display:

• Page heading
• Description (text header)
• Image (the owner's avatar or logo)
• Contact information of various types (phones, email, generic web links, IM handles, etc.)
• Embedded Google Map showing a geo location
• Various structured and free-flow text information
• Adverts in different parts of the page
• Status bar with links ("Login to see private data" / "Logout", "Manage")
• Actions block (Print, Download, Share, Connect)
• Search box with additional toggles
• Breadcrumbs or similar type of navigation through .tel directories
• (if using non-standard icons) a complete set of icons for all types of contact information (excluding trademarked icons for specific services like Facebook or Skype)
• .tel logo

Currently, all contact items are shown in full (i.e. no masking of contact information) so that visitors will know what they're clicking on, as well as providing information for search engines to index for businesses that wish to be found online. .tel owners can make any sensitive or personal contact information private and share it with only those they trust.

As a .tel is for delivering quick and easy access to contact information and not content, the submitted design should not include any video, flash-based or other interactive media or widgets that aren't supported on existing .tel templates today or that cannot be visually represented in the submitted static design. This is to ensure best practices for search engine optimization (SEO) are maintained.

You may wish to suggest additional features such as social sharing tools, etc.

Submitting your design

The competition is being run through 99 Designs and designers in the .tel community are encouraged to submit their entries. Designers can sign up for a free account.  Designs following the contest brief should be submitted no later than 9th February, after which time Telnic will choose the winner or winners from the entries.

We will shortlist entries and ask the .tel community for their feedback and Telnic will make the final decision as to the winner. Once a winner has been chosen, we will inform 99 Designs as per the contest rules. We cannot provide a firm timeline as to when the design may be implemented in the .tel platform and the design may be modified due to technical restrictions if/when implemented on the .tel template gallery.

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newsletter del dominio .tel de enero 2011

Welcome to .telegraph, the monthly .tel community newsletter covering the latest news on .tel features, software and services, as well as useful tips and advice from .tel owners. Why not share this with someone you think may also be interested? More resources are at http://telnic.org/community-landing.html.

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Featured .tel domains

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This week's winner

Demidenko.tel

In this issue:

Design competition: Enter now! UBL and Telnic Partner to integrate .tel Domains in UBL offerings An interview with Lucy Wang (Telchina) New quick-start guide for .tel .tel Examples from the East

Interview with Oscar Sousa-Marques Leading eCommerce provider in China now offering .tel names Navigating change Fuel efficiency and .tel Did you know?

"Those who desire to contact me can easily find my contact info on my .tel to do so. This becomes my digital business card which is much easier & cheaper to keep up to date that paper business cards." Read the full interview with Alex Fraser

Get creative in our new template design competition! When it comes to design, taste can be very subjective. Realizing a design in real-life technology solutions can also be challenging. That said, the team at Telnic always relishes a challenge and there's nothing like a new year (and a new decade) to take a fresh look at things! So, with that in mind, we're kicking off a design competition for the community to submit a new .tel template for computer browsers. This contest is about finding a fantastic new design to match the great features and benefits that .tel is already delivering to owners in over 180 countries worldwide. We know that the .tel community has some great ideas so we're really looking forward to seeing some outstanding submissions. To learn more about the competition and submit your design, please visit our website.

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UBL and Telnic Partner to integrate .tel Domains in UBL offerings UniversalBusinessListing.org (UBL), the business identity management service of Name Dynamics Inc, and Telnic, have announced a partnership to integrate .tel names into UBL's commercial offerings. UBL provides a single entry point for enhanced business profiles which it distributes to all major search engines, Yellow Pages, social networks, mobile phones, 411 directory assistance, map sites and GPS devices. By integrating .tel names within the UBL service, businesses will now have a distributed and centralized online presence for their contact information, increasing their discoverability online.

"We are delighted to be partnering with Telnic, which shares our commitment to helping businesses improve their online visibility," said Doyal Bryant, CEO, Universal BusinessListing.org. "The .tel domain offers businesses a highly refined 'contact-us' page with strong visibility and quick indexing in search engines, making it an important tool for managing an online business identity." Read more online.

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Interview with Lucy Wang, CEO of TelChina

Lucy Wang, Chief Executive Officer of TelChina, is no stranger to running successful operations. Her career includes CEO roles in leading online media groups, the role of Secretary-General for the Australian-Chinese Business Association, and most recently Chief Strategy Officer at CNNIC (the .cn registry). This month, Lucy is answering our questions about TelChina's recent launch. Why did you form Telchina? What gap do you see .tel addressing in the Chinese market? My major career experience has been with online marketing. In China, Internet ads are so ubiquitous that viewers get confused trying to find the information they need. When I first heard about .tel, I was very impressed by its clarity, ease of use and branding potential. As a result, I formed Telchina to help people and businesses outreach to their customers efficiency. I believe improving discoverability is crucial for all kinds of online marketing.

What kinds of people are using .tel in China today? Primarily, business-oriented companies and individuals.

Since its launch in 2010, how has TelChina been accepted? Since its launch, .tel has been very positively accepted by the Chinese market, especially in the corporate sector. For individual users, we still need to educate them and help them use .tel more actively and regularly. To serve corporate and individual users better, we are going to offer unique value-added services to different vertical markets in addition to the core .tel product.

What's the greatest challenge you've faced with .tel? I think the biggest challenge is to improve user engagement and stickiness on .tel, and form more partnerships with leading internet service providers here in China. Any new product takes time to be accepted. It is normal that some people at first mistake .tel for an ordinary domain name like any other. Therefore, we need to educate the market, and more importantly, to clearly differentiate our service.

Speaking about differentiation, how does your .tel service address the needs of the local market? To fulfil government requirements, we need to provide real name verification services. We have already upgraded our .tel data management system to provide a localized control panel service for our customers, and we also developed a series of new templates. We are going to localize our product further to accommodate a larger Internet community here, conveying more benefits to Chinese speakers.

You've provided some great personalization features for your customers. What are your plans looking forward? We are engaged in building .tel to be a personal hub for communication, connecting to a person's entire digital world. Great personalization is one of the features that users can easily apply themselves to. We are aiming to establish a platform with all the widgets, tools, applications, etc. where users can choose the features they prefer.

We recently heard about theHC International deal—can you explain a little bit more as to how .tel will benefit their customers? The SEO function of .tel pages enables small-to-medium size companies to improve online discoverability; .tel's ability to consolidate multiple pieces of contact information provides users with the means to integrate all their marketing efforts into one platform, and the privacy management feature provides them with some basic CRM function. We have also found that .tel is able to integrate in many online applications. To summarize, companies on HC360 can get benefits from .tel in many aspects.

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New quick-start guide for .tel

In a few weeks, the .tel control panel will include a quick and easy setup tool to help novice users create their .tel pages in minutes. It's as easy as 1-2-3! Simply enter basic information about yourself or your business, key contact information and location, and preview the .tel page before it gets published. Now anybody can create a .tel page in no time! When you visit your control panel once this update has been launched, the setup tool will show automatically if you haven't populated any of your .tels yet. Follow the process and publish information on your .tel to make it visible online and discoverable by search engines. Now you have a basic page that can be improved and expanded further through your control panel or by using one of the mobile apps. The more information your .tel has, the more useful it is for visitors and search engines, and the more discoverable you become online. Look out for more exclusive details on the new version of the control panel in future newsletters.

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.tel examples from the East

As mentioned in a previous edition of the .telegraph, TelChina, Telnic's partner in China, is now hosting its customers' .tel domains directly and providing localized services including a choice from its own selection of templates. Since the launch of their tailored services, we've seen a number of interesting .tel names being developed by customers. The following examples show how professionals, small businesses, large organisations and even conference organisers are using their .tel names:

	Nizhengdong.tel is the personal .tel of Gavin Ni, the group Founder and CEO of zero2ipo Group, a leading integrated service provider in China venture capital and private equity industry. Mr Ni was given the honour of being named in China's top 10 CEOs in 2010. He's using his .tel to share his and his company's contact information, and also to link to relevant articles that he's published.
	GMIC.tel is the central point of contact for the Global Mobile Internet Conference, one of the world's leading annual events for the mobile Internet industry. Attendees can use the .tel to browse speakers, exhibitors and to find links to register online. This year's event is organized by Great Wall Club, which also has its own .tel name at gwc.tel.
	Yanmama.tel is the mobile home of the online glasses and contact lens store Yanmama, which supplies customers throughout China. Yanmama uses its .tel not only to share its contact details, but also to link to its various online outlets. Yanmama is already reporting excellent SEO results for searches using highly competitive keywords within its industry. The structure and design of the .tel has also benefitted it significantly; Yanmama's main website is necessarily image-rich, so the .tel is an excellent lightweight page for mobile users to access important contact information quickly and easily.
	武功山.tel has selected a striking template from Tel-China's exclusive template collection. It is a well-known martial arts travel company and is using its .tel to share information regarding the hotels, restaurants and attractions in the region it covers.

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Interview with Oscar Sousa-Marques, President of ADPAI

Oscar Sousa-Marques is president of Asian Directories Publishers Association (ADPAI) and CEO of Directel Macau, the directory service for the island of Macau, where every local business now has a .tel name. In this interview, Oscar is sharing his experiences with .tel. As President of ADPAI, how are you seeing yellow page companies transform themselves in the region? Even though the pace was initially slower in Asia than in Europe and the US, the same has increased in the past year and almost all Asian yellow pages companies are diversifying their offers beyond print yellow pages. Asia is quite diverse and you have some very large markets, such as China and India, where the market is teeming with new online-only companies and others where the incumbent yellow pages company is successfully exploring some niche markets, such as the Philippines. Still, in all Asian countries the good old days of fat print yellow pages margins are rapidly becoming a thing of the past.

DirecTel has successfully transformed into a multi-platform media company – how are you transforming your services to benefit their customers? Our focus has and will always be our customers. Macau being a very small economy with a comparatively large number of visitors, our first focus after the yellow pages was the tourism market. We currently have several publications addressing that market from guides and maps to online verticals. We also converted some of our print clients into online businesses by first introducing some basic offers that were clearly understood by the market. Currently more than 50% of our print clients are online and we have started to offer other services such as government-sponsored template-based web design, directory assistance services with the 114 China Telecom service and mobile marketing solutions.

What types of customers is DirecTel representing today? The majority of our clients are still SMBs even though we have been increasingly working with some of the large casino companies in very specific areas like mobile marketing.

What is the most important priority for small businesses when it comes to marketing today? The old rule still applies: they want more customers acquired as cheaply as possible.SMBs in Macau are very price-sensitive and do track their ROI even if sometimes in a rather complicated way. Consequently, we have to keep this in mind when designing our products and establishing our prices. How do you see .tel fit into these changing priorities for both yellow page companies and small businesses? In Macau we have partnered with Telnic to provide all local companies with their own .tel page in what I believe could be a solution to be followed by most of the players in the region.

What do you think the main benefits are with .tel? It's a very easy to understand proposal to all our SMBs that delivers measurable results with a relatively low investment.

How important is having a mobile-accessible presence in Macau for small businesses? Mobile is becoming increasingly important especially with the vast number of smartphones in the local market and in use by the 22-plus million yearly visitors to Macau. .tel is a great solution for the local SMBs providing them with a mobile-formatted basic website with all the crucial information about their business.

Where do you see DirecTel's services going in the future? We are now exploring a few new services and will hopefully launch a mobile payment platform in Macau this year that will enable us to facilitate commerce for all local SMBs. A deal-a-day platform, by partnering with some regional player or creating a start-up, is also being considered.

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Leading eCommerce provider in China now offering .tel names

This month, HC360, a leading B2B e-commerce and traditional marketing services provider in China, begins providing .tel names to its 170 thousand small and medium-sized businesses on its Southwest Operations Centre platform. Businesses will benefit from .tel names bundled with their current HC International services, enabling their business to be found in a cross-platform environment as well as improving their communications effectiveness by offering customers different communications choices through .tel, including mobile-optimized micro-sites. Lucy Wang, CEO of TelChina, explained: "We're pleased that HC International is the first leading service provider in China to incorporate .tel names into its E-commerce services. With the growing importance of an online presence for business and increasing use of the mobile web, providing .tel names will enhance discoverability, accessibility and the reputation of their clients, both in China and abroad." See full interview with Lucy Wang above. Khashayar Mahdavi, CEO of Telnic Limited, said: "We are confident that 2011 will be an exciting year for TelChina and .tel, given the rapid adoption that they are experiencing from organisations such as HC International. We fully anticipate an accelerated take-up of .tel names from E-commerce, online marketing and telecommunications companies in the region as the success of this and other deals become apparent."

About the company Founded in 1992, hc360.com (HK8292) is a leading B2B eCommerce service provider in China. In December 2003, it successfully listed on the Growth Enterprises Market (GEM) of the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited, and became the first listed mainland company in information services industry and B2B electronic commerce services industry. At present, it has over 10 million registered users and serves up to 8 million buyers in more than 32 industries, making itself the most influential e-commerce service provider in China.

Navigating Change—Controlling contact points in a changing marketing environment

A colleague recently sent me a link to a blog post regarding the New York Times' celebration of its 80-year anniversary in 1931. It commissioned the leading business, scientific and philosophical thinkers of the time and asked them to predict what the world would look like in 80 years time, so what 2011 would look like. Whilst a selection of these is only available here and I hope more will be released by the NYT soon, some of those predictions highlights are incredibly close, and I'd encourage you to read them at your leisure.

What struck me when reading these was, not that each and every one of them had applied their minds to something so far beyond them as to imagine a world that they would never be able to see, but to understand that all of their predictions came from a fundamental notion that the one constant that they could rely on was change. In 2010, we're so used to change, we perhaps forget that it is happening at all! Incremental change and incremental innovation surround us, perhaps nowhere more so than within the technology and devices that are inherently changing our lives at a microscopic level. Gesture-based gaming, internet connectivity in airplanes, touch screen smart phones, self-driving cars (OK, some not so small changes in that last one!) have all emerged and crept up on us over the past two or three years, making us think how on earth we survived before they were around.

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Fuel efficiency and .tel

My name is Alex Fraser and I am based in Canada. I am and have been an official independent Bitron distributor of effective fuel efficiency products since Nov 1998 when I joined as an official distributor under N/A/T/O. As most clients contact me via the internet, being discoverable online is very important to me, although customers can also reach me in various other ways - by phone, skype, some advertising, etc. I heard about .tel from George Moen, CEO of Blenz Coffee, in July 2010 and was intrigued, checked it out but did nothing. Then in late October I checked it out again and signed up with my domains alexwfraser.tel and alexfraser.tel. My wife Rhoda is also using .tel with rhodaross.tel and rosswintravel.tel, and these 4 domains are now entwined with each other.

I believe most people can benefit from a .tel digital business card in one way or another. For example, .tel has put my name up in the top of the search engines and regularly shows my variety of web sites. In the time that I have had my .tel site, we have had at least a dozen queries on my wife's YTB/ZamZuu site. This has been one result that has been quite noticeable. Keeping things up to date is one of the major benefits of . tel for me, and I suspect that for those who desire to contact me can easily find my contact info on my .tel to do so. This becomes my digital business card which is much easier and cheaper to keep up to date that paper business cards. I think in future, .tel is going to be a good part of advertising on the internet. Getting this fine tuned is another story and effort. Simply said, you can put your contact info on a .tel, keep it private for family access. It can or could be a back up for location of various essential documents, where they are kept. It is secure. It is also great I think for keeping in touch.Tdah  libros arte caleruega ofertas casa rural asociaciones tdah personajes tdah libros tdah tdah canarias tdah coaching

If you've got a .tel story that you wish to share, why not get in touch with us atcommunity@telnic.org.

Cambios en el modo de poner anuncios en los dominios .tel

Advertisements within .tel

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Overview

.tel is a Sponsored Top Level Domain managed by the Sponsoring Organisation Telnic Ltd. This top-level

domain differs from others in that it is designed to support storage and use of personal communications

contacts. These are published in DNS, and the domains in which they are stored can be queried to provide

a list of these contacts. This list shows the ways in which the domain owner chooses to be contacted, and

entries can be selected by a querying user to initiate communications with the domain owner.

Additionally, the .tel platform supports several types of advertising to monetize .tel domains:



Text-based static adverts presented as "Sponsored Links" visually distinct from web links in

contact information. These adverts are stored in the DNS as system text records.



Image-based static adverts presented above Sponsored Links. These adverts are hosted elsewhere,

while the .tel DNS only stores the image locations and the target URLs for them.



Google AdSense dynamic adverts presented on computer browsers only (not on mobiles)

automatically from Google's ad network. In this case, the .tel DNS stores the IDs of the adverts,

and the proxy creates them on the fly.

This document provides a summary of the advertisement specific functionality within .tel and forms a

sub-set of the full

developer guide which should be used to provide further background and context.

ABOUT TXT RECORDS

Advertisements provide the ability to separate sponsored content from contact information in the domain

and provide adequate presentation for those links. Adverts are stored in the DNS as TXT records.

Generally speaking, a TXT record can hold a series of strings, each of which is

≤ 255 octets in length

(according to the main DNS standard

RFC 1035). However, storing one or multiple massive TXT records

is unwise since the DNS is optimised for relatively short messages, and not all networks react correctly to

excessively long DNS messages.

In a .tel domain, TXT records are used to store non-contact related information. Multiple records of this

type are allowed in a single FQDN, with all available TXT records returned in response to a DNS query.

The sub-type of TXT records for static advertisements is identified by the

.tad initial string followed by

the version number and the advert fields. The Google AdSense records use the

.gad string, while imagebased

ads use the

.tia prefix.

All advert records must be stored in a special sub-domain

_ad of the current domain. Any advert records

that are found in the domain itself, as well as malformed adverts, will be silently discarded. Client

application may choose to lookup and present those sponsored links to the user, or to ignore that subfolder.

If a TXT record contains plain-text strings, it is displayed as is with no additional processing. If the record

contains system data, such as an advertisement, it undergoes pre-processing before being displayed on the

page. Note that the order of processing records for a domain is not guaranteed, although text strings

within one TXT record are processed from left to right.

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ABOUT ADVERTISEMENT RECORDS

An advertisement is a TXT record with a special prefix and format, placed in the

_ad sub-domain of the

current domain, such as

_ad.hotels.tel or _ad.florida.us.hotels.tel. Depending on the type of

advert, the record follows this structure:

TXT ".tad" "Version" "DisplayPreference" "Preference" "Title" "Label" "URI" "Description"

TXT ".gad" "Version" "DisplayPreference" "Preference" "PublisherID" "AdUnitID"

TXT ".tia" "Version" "DisplayPreference" "Preference" "img" "uri"

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Version – Currently "1"



Display Preference – required numeric value in the range 1-6 indicating the position of the advert

on the page, as outlined in the table below.



Preference - numeric value between 0 – 65535 that acts as the sort order for each display set.



Title – text string up to 255 bytes long representing the title of the ad



Label – text string up to 255 bytes long. It is the anchor text of the below URI.



URI – collection of consecutive key / value pairs (where each key is labeled "uri") that are

concatenated to produce the final URI used within the advert; this ensures that URIs in excess of

255 bytes can be created.



Description - collection of consecutive key / value pairs (where each key is labeled "desc") that are

concatenated to produce the final description to be used within the advert; this ensures descriptions

in excess of 255 bytes can be created.

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PublisherID – Google AdSense Publisher ID of the format "pub-xxxxxxx"



AdUnitID – ID of the Google AdSense advert unit



Img – URL of the image to be displayed as the advert text

RENDERING ADVERTISEMENT RECORDS

On the web, .tel advertisements can be displayed at the top or bottom of the page, or on the right (PC

proxy only) depending on the display preference setting. Note that client applications may ignore

advertisement TXT records or display them according to the application's layout.

If the domain contains different types of adverts, the image ads are shown first, followed by text ads and

Google AdSense, if appropriate. Among multiple adverts of the same type, the preference determines the

order, and no sorting is done for advertisements of the same type with the same display preference and

preference values.

The table below defines the display settings for .tel advertisements based on the display preference. The

table also gives the maximum number of adverts for each block where .tia and .tad records are counted

together. Finally, the provided maximum dimensions apply to .tia records.

IN TXT ".tad" "1" "1" "51" "Free Money" "click here to win" "uri"

"http://casino7.info/roomoffer.htm" "uri" "=24342354&z" "desc"

"Sierra Resorts offer" "desc" "free gaming chips for members."

IN TXT ".gad" "1" "2" "51" "pub-6575877768951234" "6745285678"

IN TXT ".tia" "1" "1" "51" "img" "http://www.adserver.com/images/ad.jpg"

"uri" "http://casino7.info/roomoffer.htm"

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Display

preference

Browser type Position Max. number

of records

Max. Dimensions

(WxH pixels)

1

Desktop Top 2 (1 .tia) 448 x 60

2

Desktop Right 5 (2 .tia) 250 x 250

3

Desktop Bottom 2 (2 .tia) 448 x 60

4*

Desktop Right 5 (no .tia) N/A

5**

Smartphone Top 1 .tia (no .tad) 300 x 50

6**

Smartphone Bottom 2 .tia (no .tad) 300 x 50

* Display preference 4 is reserved for .tad records of a special type where the heading is "Related Links"

rather than "Sponsored Links" and a different background colour. This type can be used to publish

announcements, press releases and other content that requires special attention but is not an

advertisement.

* Display preferences 5 and 6 are reserved for .tia image adverts only. These values are not valid for other

record types.

NOTE

: Google AdSense records are only displayed on desktop browsers, on the right, in 250x250 pixel

blocks, with two blocks at maximum per domain name.

STORING ADVERTISEMENT RECORDS

Advertisement TXT records are created & modified via the

storeRecord SOAP command.

NOTE

: Do not create the _ad folder before adding the record; instead, use the owner parameter.

Storing a text advert

<typ:storeRecordRequest domainName="stead.tel">

<typ:txt profiles="_all_" owner="_ad">

<typ:text>.tad</typ:text>

<typ:text>1</typ:text>

<typ:text>1</typ:text>

<typ:text>100</typ:text>

<typ:text>Title of the ad</typ:text>

<typ:text>label of the ad</typ:text>

<typ:text>uri</typ:text>

<typ:text>http://www.telnic.org</typ:text>

<typ:text>desc</typ:text>

<typ:text>sample description</typ:text>

</typ:txt>

</typ:storeRecordRequest>

Storing a Google AdSense unit

<

typ:storeRecordRequest domainName="telnicnsp10.tel">

<typ:adsense profiles="_all_" recursive="true">

<typ:displayPreference>2</typ:displayPreference>

<typ:preference>101</typ:preference>

<typ:publisherId>pub-6575877768951234</typ:publisherId>

<typ:adUnitId>6745285678</typ:adUnitId>

</typ:adsense>

</typ:storeRecordRequest>

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Storing an image advert

<soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope"

xmlns:typ="http://xmlns.telnic.org/ws/nsp/client/record/types-1.0">

<soap:Header/>

<soap:Body>

<typ:storeRecordRequest domainName="example.tel" >

<typ:imagead profiles="_all_">

<typ:displayPreference>6</typ:displayPreference>

<typ:preference>103</typ:preference>

<typ:imageUri>http:/www.adserver.com/images/ad.jpg</typ:imageUri>

<typ:adLink>http://casino7.info/roomoffer.htm</typ:adLink>

</typ:imagead>

</typ:storeRecordRequest>

</soap:Body>

</soap:Envelope>

Full details of the inputs/outputs of this command are available within the Telnic developer site.

Adverts displayed on a desktop proxy

Top section consisting of 1

image advert (.tia) and 1 text

advert (.tad)

Right section

with 1 image

advert

Text advert

Google

AdSense block

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Adverts displayed on smartphones

Bottom image

ad followed

by text ad

Top image

ad followed

by text ad

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Top 10 Myths About Domain Names

Of all the people using the internet and browsing websites everyday, the domain name industry is still a mystery to the majority of people.

In this article I will do my best to educate you on the little known aspects of the domain industry and debunk some of the most common misunderstandings and myths about domain names.

1. All the good domains are taken.

According to the latest VeriSign domain industry brief, there are over 80 million .COM domain names registered. So, there is some justification for this prevalent myth, but I'm here to tell you it is far from being completely true!

It is still possible to use keywords to create great quality two and three-word domains. Additionally, millions of the domains that have been claimed are destined to expire and become available again. Tools for researching and filtering through expired domains will forever prove this myth false.

2. Social profiles will replace domain names.

There has been some talk in marketing and advertising circles that the huge attraction to social networking will cause businesses to skip creating actual websites all-together. While this may be true for a very small number of poor souls, the benefits of a self-hosted website far out-weigh the popularity of social profiles.

If anything, social networking is leading to more websites and more internet consumers. One common and prominent feature of social profiles is a place to highlight a website address.

3. .COM ranks higher than .NET, .ORG, etc. on search engines.

This is another tricky myth that has some grain of truth, but needs clarification. According to Google spokesperson Matt Cutts, the domain extension does play a small factor in the ranking algorithm, but only for defined countries.

Because .COM is commonly associated with the United States, it will have some priority over foreign country-code domains (such as .LY, .CO.UK, .CO.ZA, etc.). However, it does not have priority over other approved extensions that are also used in the United States (such as .NET, .ORG, .TV, .INFO, .CO, etc.). All of these extensions have an equal opportunity to rank highly for desired keywords.

Each country-code domain has the equivalent advantage over .COM on their own Google international search engines.

4. There are no affordable .COMs for sale.

There is a stigma placed on .COM domain names because of uneducated sellers heavily inflating the valuations of their common domains. Take a look on eBay for domains for sale and you will see what I mean.

If you can be patient and search out the right places you will find reasonable sellers offering great quality domain names for sale. These legitimate sales can be found at popular domain marketplaces or at private portfolio websites. Another option is to contact a seller directly. It does not hurt to look-up a domain and email the domain owner to negotiate a good price.

5. Common domains are worth hundreds or thousands of dollars.

Domain valuation is not easy. Because each and every domain name is unique, the only way to accurately gauge the value of a given domain is to compare similar sales, market size, potential end-users and size-up keyword statistics. All in all, not an easy task.

Most individuals simply do not have the experience and understanding of the industry to accurately price their domains for sale. A lot of domains are not worth anything because better options may are readily available and because they have a yearly renewal fee.

The chances of a domain registered yesterday being worth thousands of dollars to someone is very slim, unless you know what you're doing and have found a gem or are very lucky.

6. Selling domain names is easy.

This is far from the truth. Well, there is an easy way to sell domain names that involves listing them on major marketplaces and kicking up your feet. But if you want to increase your odds of a domain selling in the next 10 years you better get proactive.

Selling domains effectively involves marketing, networking, research, people skills, negotiation and much more. If you learn the skills, you can improve your chances of selling and earning more profit.

7. GoDaddy is the best domain registrar.

GoDaddy is simply the biggest and frequently the cheapest domain registrar. Massive advertising campaigns and expanded product offering have made GoDaddy the world's most well-known domain registrar.

There are many other registrars that have comparable prices and expanded features such as more security, support and customer service. Off the top of my head some of the most respected registrars include Name.com, NameCheap, Moniker, EuroDNS and Fabulous.

Check out the Top 100 Domain Websites for more good industry companies and resources.

8. Registering lots of domains is unethical or "squatting."

There is often negative view of the domain industry mainly stemming from spiteful web developers who can not find the perfect domain for their own project. We also get a bad reputation from a small number of people who register domains based on business trademarks or close typos. That is who the real cyber-squatters are.

The overwhelming majority of domain investors today are keenly aware of the risks of owning domains containing trademarks.

Just because someone owns a few hundred or even a few thousand domain names does not mean they are squatting. Domains have been freely available to register since the 90′s and many wise investors had the foresight to stake their claim. Anyone is allowed to buy up and resell as much real-world real estate as they like, domain names are no different.

9. Searching for available domains is the only option.

This is a major pet-peeve of mine. Sometimes it seems as if the world has it's blinders up to the industry beyond domain registrars.  Some may be on a very tight budget, but there is a HUGE aftermarket of quality domain names available to purchase.

Check out the Top 20 Places to Buy Domains for a sampling of the many great outlets for acquiring a great domain that will pay for itself over a lifetime of use!

10. Keywords in domains do not affect search engine ranking.

Keywords absolutely have a beneficial affect on search rankings. It has been proven over the years and is well known in the SEO community that using keywords within a domain provides a tremendous advantage in ranking highly for those terms.

Both non-hyphenated and hyphenated domains can gain this advantage. More often than not, an exact match keyword domain is able to claim the #1 position on Google with very little effort. This is one of the top reasons for owning a generic keyword domain and it's what makes them so valuable.

Keep on Busting Domain Myths

The domain industry has a lot of work to do as far as educating the public, now more than ever. Please help share the truth about Domaining.

What do you want to know about domain names? Ask a question on the DotSauce Q&A Forum and our community of experienced domainers will do their best to help.

Did I miss a common domain name myth? Please leave a comment below with any additions you would like to add. The more knowledge shared, the better!

¡¡¡¡¡¡ Mira que es fácil crear un dominio .tel !!!!!

Professionals have yet to take advantage of a .tel domain to brand their online image and identity. The only reason must be a lack of knowledge.

Never has anything so powerful and inexpensive been ignored by the business community.

A .tel is a new TLD that allows the domain owner to store, publish, and handle contact information and search terms directly in the Domain Name System (DNS), the worldwide system that stores locations of all the web sites in the world.

For the first time, anyone can use the DNS system to store information other than the location of websites.

16 Factors to Consider – Personal and/or Business .tel:

1. Claim your name. Thousands of Robert Joneses and John Smiths share the same name. Own the domain.

2. Organize your info. Add your contact information, text, images, search phrases, and locality in several public and private profiles.

3. No internet hosting necessary. Your information is stored directly in the DNS structure and does not require independent web hosting.

4. Low-cost. Domains are available for less than $20 per year – and no additional hosting required.

5. Profiles. You control what visitors see. You can have separate public, private, work, home, vacation, or any other profiles.

6. Business directory. Create folders for different offices or list employee extensions.

7. Mobile friendly. Your .tel domain will load almost instantly and read easily in any smartphone.

8. Professional profile and branding. Own your identity, no matter who you currently work for.

9. SEO optimized. Ranks high in the search engines. Inside a day or so, YourName.tel will most likely show on the first page of Google when someone searches for "Your Name". Be discovered more quickly via search engines. Structured information, keywords and phrases, and hyperlinks to a domain name all enable search engines to determine the importance and purpose of the .tel.

10. One contact. You can make YourName.tel you single lifetime point of contact. Regardless of where you live in the world, your information is accessible to clients and customers.

11. Make modifications almost instantaneously. Updates are visible in seconds.

12. Branding. Put your .tel on your business cards, websites, and sig files. Your information is always up to date at all times. For kicks, you can make a simple business card that only shows "YourName.tel".

13. Simple. Your friends, relatives, and business contacts will always know where to go to obtain an email address or phone number.

14. Location. If you choose, you can include a map to your location.

15. Keywords. Utilize an unlimited number of keywords and phrases to market yourself. You can tell people where you work, your hobbies, your skills, anything you want to share publicly, and show a photo or logo for easy recognition.

16. One-click dialing. If you include a phone number in your profile, you can click the number to dial – especially important on a mobile phone.

No platform comes without a downside. Remember, the info you make public is available to everyone online.

Info not to include:

* Social Security Number
* date of birth
* home address
* bank information
* financial details

Your username and password are all that you need to login to the .tel control panel. Never share this login with anyone.

Once you have set up your .tel, I recommend you post the link on business cards, online business profiles, websites, blogs, and anywhere you would be able to generate business leads or assist your current clients or customers

Importante para SEO de los dominios .tel

The below are not in any specific order, we can do that later.
1. Use some Long Tail URLs - suggested by Cees
2. Backlinks - (one way, not reciprocal, with high PR if poss, if not any will do) - suggested by dialaroom
3. Age and Content - Henri's video
4. Avoid excessive duplicate content with another website in the Keywords - suggested by Aled
5.Another minor but extremely important one is to always add a title to your .tel. Never leave it blank - Aled

Bonito el dominio .tel ¿no?

Thanks for your kind words

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La comprar de domininios seguirá siendo un buen negocio ¿seguro?

The Future of Domain Investing: 10 Reasons Why There Are Still Millions to Be Made

By ShaneCultra | Jan 15, 2011

People ask me why I invest in domains and I give them a simple answer.  It's not the beginning but it's early and I'm going to take advantage.  Early enough to be a part of one of the best money making opportunities we've seen in the last 50 years.  I can buy Internet land and prices that are just a small percentage of their future value.  I buy just like I buy real estate, beach front and highly desired locations.  There is plenty of land and plenty of domains, but the most wanted will continue to stay the most wanted. Here are 10 other reasons why I can still make millions with domains in the near future.

1. 7 Billion people on earth and increasing at 80 million A YEAR: Before the 20th century, no human had lived through a doubling of the human population, but there are people alive today who have seen it triple. Sometime in late 2011, according to the UN Population Division, there will be seven billion of us.  Every year a larger percentage of people have access of the Internet

2. Most people believe all the good dot coms are taken. While there are still domains related to new technologies, current events, and trends to be hand registered, most are now in a taken or resale state. Limited supply of anything is positive for the future.  You can make as many new tlds as you want but there will only be one dot com.

3. Companies spent more on Internet advertising than newspaper.  The old king of media has officially been replaced by the net.  Next up…. TV.

4. It's human nature to think you can do better. The wonderful thing about humans is they think they are better than other people.  Give a designer a logo and 99% of the time they think they can do better.   It applies to domaining as well.  It doesn't matter if you can monetize a domain or not, someone will always think they can make more money from it.  They think they can sell it for more.  As long as they don't lose that instinct you'll always have this to help you move product.

5. The average price of a domain at Sedo rose from $1600 to $2000. Prices for domains that are most wanted are rising.  You just have to figure out which domains sell.

6. Big sales lead to buyers with big dreams. Again, it's human nature to dream of making a million dollars.  Every time a big domain sale comes up it gets people excited.  Even more importantly,  are the large selling prices for domains that are unexpected.  Names that many people didn't think really had that value.  Everyone dreams of that wealthy enduser that absolutely that has to have your domain.  All this leads to people taking the gamble.

7. The CHEAPEST average price of a 30 second National Tv commercial is $76,000 a minute. On Fox it averages $200,000.   And that's national.  A domain is worldwide.  Makes domain prices sound cheap doesn't it?

8.  Companies are still willing to buy domain names AFTER they release the product or start the company.   The surest way for a company to get a domain at a fair price is to have some foresight and send a middleman to buy the domain before the release of a product.  Fortunately for domain owners, companies still release products and buy the domains AFTER.  It gives the domain owner the upper hand in negotiations and ensures a big payday.

9. Real business minds will rule the lazy and profit accordingly. Now that the easy money in parking has ended and the minisites are following the same trend, the business mind that create individual businesses on their domains will create enormous wealth.  Now is the time of the large build out.  Consumers are figuring out whether it's a "legit" site within seconds of the landing and with Google moving to TrustRank, the sooner you build trust, the more money you'll make.

10.  The average time spent online is increasing at an incredible rate. Over the last five years, the amount of time spent watching TV has increased about 5%, but the time spent surfing the Web has grown 121% to an average of 13 hours a week, Forrester Research said in an annual report about online consumer habits.  Add mobile and you'd find that the Internet is a bigger part of the day then any form of communication and entertainment.  And the roadmap of this communication is defined with domains.  The owners of these properties will prosper