martes, 22 de octubre de 2013

Directorio http://www.thomsonlocal.com/

New Telnames Value Added Reseller registered about 400 .tels


The British directory www.thomsonlocal.com registered about 400 Telnames yesterday.

The websites are still empty, as example:

www.cherishedpetproducts.tel
www.clarkhowes.tel
www.click4acab.tel

How-To Guide: Get Liked to Get Noticed

How-To Guide: Get Liked to Get Noticed

Your .tel name makes it easy to get ‘liked’, get noticed and get shared. All of which helps boost your visibility in local search.
There’s been lots of discussion lately about how social media can help generate more traffic to your site. The good news is a .tel name mobile friendly website makes it easy for visitors to publicly share links to your site; enabling your content to be seen by a wider audience and generating more opportunities for links to be shared.
.Tel.us: What’s the challenge?
Encouraging satisfied customers to promote your .tel mobile website is a great way of generating invaluable free publicity among their contacts.
Exposure is a key way to growing a small business. And we all know that social media is great for creating a buzz around your business and brand.
But social media can also help you improve your positioning in search engines, thanks to links. They’re a great way to spread the word about what you do, and at a fraction of the cost of traditional marketing and advertising.
.Tel us: Practical steps and top tips
It’s the age of social media in which sharing content has become the norm. So, if you don’t have social sharing buttons on your mobile website, then you should think again.
Basic share buttons like Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and Pinterest allow visitors to share your content with their friends and colleagues, extending the word to a wider audience. And you don’t even have to lift a finger.
The aim of the game is to put your online profiles and social platforms to work and social media buttons make it easy for visitors to Like, Share and Recommend you to their social networks and contacts. The more your content is shared, the more backlinks you’ll generate, and the higher your search rankings will be.
The good news is that every .tel name has link buttons that make it easy to share your site with family, friends, customers or business partners.
.Tel us: The benefits
A visitor to your .tel name can share it in one of four ways.
  1. The Facebook ‘Like’ button shares a link to your .tel name with all your visitor’s Facebook friends.
  2. The Twitter button allows visitors to tweet links to your .tel to all their followers on Twitter. The default message is “Please check out [yourname.tel]” but this can be modified by the person making the tweet.
  3. The mail button opens a new email so that a visitor can email their contacts a link to your .tel name. By default, the email title is your .tel name.
  4. The Google+ ‘+1’ button shares a link to your .tel name with selected circles in your visitor’s Google+ profile.
You can ask customers to promote your page in a variety of ways with posts on social media, or by email– such as in the footer of an order confirmation – or through word of mouth. Just one tweet could mean your .tel name could get seen by thousands of people, so start getting noticed on social networks today.

miércoles, 16 de octubre de 2013

Name.com newsletter from yesterday:

Name.com newsletter from yesterday:



Since you currently have a .TEL domain name, we wanted to share some cool new information about the .TEL extension.

  • As of today, 8-digit (or longer), all-numerical .TEL domain names are available for registration on a first-come, first-serve basis.
  • What's this mean? You can now register your full phone number as a domain name, such as 1234567890.tel.
  • It's a great way to brand your phone number as your online business card, create a domain name for your customer support line, or get your phone number indexed by search engines.
Register a new .TEL for $9.99.

martes, 15 de octubre de 2013

Finally the missing indirect recognition from the telecommunication world towards TEL capability ?

Best positive buzz ever towards all -numeric dot TEL usecases ignited by ... ITU a few days ago !!!

Finally the missing indirect recognition from the telecommunication world towards TEL capability ?

A special cum laude mention indirectly awarded by ITU to :
- shortcodes ( also shortcodes directories ?)
- national phone numbers  ( also national or regional phone directories ? )
- international phone numbers in ITU-T E.164 format

ITU letter to ICANN, Geneva 11 October 2013 wrote:
.../...
ITU must express its concern about TELNIC’s recent announcement launching an “all numeric .tel domains” service from 15 October 2013. This raises a number of policy, legal, and practical implications on the potential usage of all-digit strings, not only under .TEL domain, but also under any future telephony-related new gTLDs
… /...

We are seeking this clarification as the digit strings appear similar to telephone numbers and could be used in a manner similar to telephone numbers, which may confuse customers or cause undue conflicts arising from their use.
Full text here : http://domainincite.com/docs/TSB-Director-Letter-to-ICANN-CEO-2013-10-11.pdf

Already an output of mature convergence between Internet and Telecommunication ?

Interesting times, although not many all-numeric DN registered today over TEL on first day , which would certainly please ITU as of date ...

Until next steps , for example when some Google or other OTTs put their hands onto services fom phone number registration over dot TEL , or IMEI over dot TEL, for them to explore further initally walled gardens ?

Telecommunication Standardization
Bureau
Geneva,
1
1
October
2013
Ref:
2013
-
10
-
387
Mr Fadi Chehadé
Pr
esident & CEO of ICANN
Email:
fadi.chehade@icann.org
cc.
:
Mr
Sherif
Guinena
ITU
-
T
SG2 Cha
irman
Email:
dr.guinena@ntra.gov.eg
Mr Khashayar Mahdavi
TELNIC CEO
Email:
kmahdavi@telnic.org
Telephone:
+41 22 730 5852
Telefax:
+41 22 730 5853
E
-
mail
:
tsbdir@itu.int
Dear Mr Chehadé,
The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) would welcome ICANN’s assistance to clarify
some issues raised by
the TELNIC announcement
1
that users can register digit strings in the
“.TEL” domain that appear to be of similar length and format as international telephone
numbers.
Since ITU first expressed concerns about the TLDs in our letter to ICANN in Nov
ember 2000, we
have recognized that both ICANN and TELNIC made some efforts to restrict all
-
digit strings as
sub
-
names under the .TEL domain, by allowing the sub
-
names only with “text
-
based” or “non
-
numeric” names, in order to avoid conflict with national
or international telephone numbering
plans. In particular, TELNIC’s application for .TEL domain of March 2004 clearly stated that “[t]he
.Tel will not [a]llow numeric
-
only domain to be registered, and therefore will not conflict with
any national or intern
ational telephone numbering plan” (
New sTLD RFP Application, .tel
-
Telnic,
Part B. Application Form
).
In light of this
, ITU
must
express its concern about TELNIC’s recent ann
ouncement launching an
“all numeric .tel domains” service from 15 October 2013
. This raises a number of
policy, legal,
and practical implications
on
the
potential usage of all
-
digit strings, not only under .TEL domain
,
but also under any future telephony
-
r
elated new gTLDs
,
because of the
possibl
e
perceived
mapping of the ITU
-
T E.164 numbering plan into the Domain Name System (DNS), without
appropriate procedures to ensure that rights of assignees of
Recommendation
ITU
-
T E.164
numbers are properly protected.
1
http://www.telnic.org/downloads/LongNumeri
csRelease.pdf

More images now available with Pro Tel

More images now available with Pro Tel


Telnic have just increased the number of images that can be added to a Pro Tel site as follows:-


1. An increase in the number of allowed images ads in the desktop TelProxy from
current:

a. Top – Increases from 2 to 6

b. Right - Increases from 5 to 6

c. Bottom – Increases from 5 to 6

2. An Increase in the maximum dimension on smartphone image ads from the current 300x150px to a more standard 4:3 ratio of 300x225px. This will have no effect on images currently being used as smartphone image ads (unless the actual dimensions are 4:3 in which case they will be displayed in more appropriate dimensions)

Great News.
EJEMPLO http://camisetas.reyes.tel/
Start making your  Image Galleries now!!  I'm testing mine at http://pictures.groups.u3a.lostwithiel.tel/

jueves, 10 de octubre de 2013

Mobile-friendly website leader Telnames launches value-added service to help small businesses get listed online

Mobile-friendly website leader Telnames launches value-added service to help small businesses get listed online

Telnames new local listings service allows customers to “create once and publish everywhere” with free and automatic online directory submission for UK businesses
London, United Kingdom, October 10, 2013. – Telnames (http://www.telnames.com), a leader in self-service mobile-friendly websites for local businesses, today announces an extension to its popular website creation service with the launch of a convenient local search listings management service. The new service addition means that Telnames customers can now benefit from automatic submission of their core business listings details to participating online directories, local search engines and business listings publishers. The service increases visibility and generates sales leads, relevant local searches, and allows prospective customers to easily make contact.tpn
This new additional service is being provided to all Telnames UK business customers free of charge. When businesses sign up for a Telnames .tel mobile website, Telnames will now distribute the business contact information along with their .tel site URL across a network of significant local search publisher partners including Bing, Yahoo!, BT, Scoot, 118118.com, 192.com, Local Mole and many others. This new service means that Telnames customers can avoid the time and hassle involved with making contact with each local directory themselves to get listed and visible in local search. All that is required is to set up an initial Telnames .tel for their business, which only takes minutes. All the relevant data that online directories need is captured during the sign-up process and Telnames then provides this information automatically to members of its partner network of directories and local search engines at no extra charge. The Telnames Partner Network is constantly expanding as more and more partners come on board.
Previously, companies have had to create their own website, optimise it for mobile devices, and then submit it to the directories themselves. Many businesses have found this process time consuming and a hassle so they have simply not bothered with it. Consequently, their businesses are not being fully listed or appear without important website content putting them at a disadvantage in the UK local search web.
Telnames’ Chief Marketing Officer Ian Bowen-Morris comments: “This new additional service is a huge help to our small business customers. When they sign up to Telnames not only do they benefit from having an easy to use single page website designed with mobile users in mind, they also now benefit from inclusion in our new listings management service. The service helps them get visibility and generate sales leads by automatically distributing their core contact information and .tel URL across a range of popular local search sites that publish after verification.” He adds: “Using local directories has always been a key marketing tool for businesses, but what Telnames is delivering is a totally unique package – an effective website presence that displays their business effectively to people searching on all devices at home or on the move as well as visibility across the local search web at no extra cost. The difference is simplicity delivered at superb value for money.”
The Telnames local listings service is included within a customer’s annual Telnames subscription. Businesses don’t need to take any further action to benefit, all that is needed is a .tel name that is well -populated and ready for customers to visit and make contact.
For more information please visit: http://www.telnames.com/telnames-partner-network/.
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About Telnames: http://www.telnames.tel
Telnames is a leader in self-service mobile-ready website creation. Telnames allows professionals and businesses of all sizes to get online and “go mobile in minutes”.
Press contacts:
Telnames
Nicky Denovan
EvokedSet PR
telnames [at] evokedset [dot] com
Phone: +44 7747 017654

All numeric .tel domains

All numeric .tel domains

From 15th October 2013 (3pm BST) you will be able to register a long numeric-only .tel domain.
This includes numeric-only domains with 2 to 63 digits with or without hyphens, except for domains with hyphens in positions three and four (e.g. 12--3.tel).
You will be able to register domain name such as 00442081331319.tel or 0044-20-8133-1319.tel.
Lexsynergy is a .tel accredited registrar. Login or sign up with us to register your .tel domain name.
Contact our brand protection if you have any questions.
 

miércoles, 9 de octubre de 2013

Mobile website leader Telnames expands offering with launch of local listings management service for small businesses

 Mobile website leader Telnames expands offering with launch of local listings management service for small businesses


London, United Kingdom, October 8th 2013. Telnames (http://www.telnames.com), a leader in self-service mobile-friendly websites for local businesses, today announces an extension to its popular service with the launch of the Telnames Partner Network, delivering automatic submission of core business listing details to participating online directories, local search engines and business listings publishers.

This new local search listings management service is being provided to all Telnames UK business customers free of charge. When businesses sign up for a Telnames .tel mobile website, Telnames will now distribute their business contact information along with their .tel site URL across a network of significant local search publisher partners including Bing, Yahoo!, BT, Scoot, 118118.com, 192.com, Local Mole and many others. Telnames captures all the relevant data from UK businesses that online directories need during the customer sign-up process, and provides this data capsule to Partner Network member directories and local search engines via an automated and regularly updated feed.

The Telnames Partner Network is constantly expanding as more and more partners come on board. Many UK businesses that sign up to Telnames are new to these directory listings or are listed but without a website URL. With the Telnames Partner Network businesses can be assured of maximising their inclusion in local search results with an easy to use single page website designed with mobile users in mind. Previously, companies have had to create their own website, make it mobile-optimised, and then submit it to the directories themselves. Many businesses have found this process time consuming and a hassle so they have not bothered with it resulting in their business not being fully listed or appearing without important website content putting them at a disadvantage in the UK local search web.

Telnames’ Chief Marketing Officer Ian Bowen-Morris comments: “By coupling quick, easy and low-cost mobile-friendly website creation with local search listings management, Telnames is providing a disruptive solution that will boost online directory content and help small businesses generate sales leads.” He adds: “The benefit of Telnames and its Partner Network is two-fold – giving our customers the ability to do something previously expensive and time-consuming at very low cost and very simply and, crucially, offering local directory and search publishers access to many previously unlisted businesses whilst providing a rich source of new local search information that will improve the depth and breadth of search results and content that they serve to the public searching on all devices at home or on the move. It’s a win-win solution and we’re looking forward to welcoming many new publisher partners on-board as we expand our network.”

The Telnames Partner Network local listings service is included within a customer’s annual Telnames low cost subscription. Businesses don’t need to take any further action to benefit, all that is required is a .tel name that is well-populated and ready for customers to visit and make contact.

For more information about becoming a Telnames Partner Network publisher please email us at partners[at]telnames[dot]com or visit: http://www.telnames.com/telnames-partner-network/

lunes, 7 de octubre de 2013

Telnic announces all-numeric long domain strings available from 15th October

Post by TELwax
This is what we have until now as identified usecases for registration of long numbers , whatever their popularity to be, or any distinctive added value for the money  :
(please add some other realistic ones if there are still some )

So we have :

1. enterprise getting their hot line number to display through TEL more options to call their call center or other number on PABX or access to specific areas for Customer care on the enterprise website

2. not hyperbranded merchants but with nice easy-to-remember long number, willing to drag attention to other digital  assets or incumbant website

3. known (branded) merchants with some existing long number, willing to drag attention to their other main digital assets or their official website, their opening hours and coupons, in case their long number is already registered in many directories and yellow pages and on their fleet of vans.

4. cold call heavy campaigns specialist willing to get traffic back on the long number set for the campaign from lookup search originated by thousands of callees who did no respond but want to know who called

5. merchants and shops , after being offered coupons for a long number TEL , offered by Hibu or other YP companies to attract and lock customers in their online directories though longnumber dot TEL entry gift

6. mobile email anonymizer : register mobile number XXYYZZPPQQRR.TEL  for your number and tel your contacts on your voicemail or auto SMS responder, they might sent you an email at  telco1@ thismobilenumber dot TEL or telco2@ thismobilenumber dot TEL to drop you a message in a convenient manner, or to download you latest vCard

7. As your friends know your mobile number already , or as it is already registred on their mobile phone book, just TEL them on your voice mail or by SMS that now to get more related updated info about you, or your  , just need to search adding dot TEL to your number (to easily retrieve in mobile friendly format from their mobile, your FB account, your email, latest photos or phone number or address of that bar were we gather on Thursdays  nights, phone number of the tennis club where you can meet, etc). You may give them pw to access TELfriends zone attached to your number

8. Protect your expensive latest smartphone by registering its 15 to 16 digits unique ID number so called IMEI number as a TEL, to reduce possibilities for thieves to extract some money with your smartphone reselling on "second" hand markets ,as now its IMEI can be Googled by anyone before buying/reselling it, and encourage being returned back the soonest at contact details shown on the .TEL now attached to your smartphone through IMEI.

9. If you are a TAXI  do register under dot TEL your long phone number with the vanity tag 8294 in it, to get additionnal traffic to your booking website or to get your phone number rank better in wild search from Google for Taxi + location (to be explained how by Registry )

10. Florists, PIZZA, etc might also register their long number with vanity tag for PIZZA or FLOWER that they do rent at high monthly for years now, to build more internet visibility throught this vanity long number they have been paying fr msuch a long time, and get more online and mobile traffic and sale orders.


11. Promotion of so far unbranded proximity services :
BTL basic street marketing and informal street marketing of proximity services by individuals or smal businesses ( painter , gardening, massage, dog groomer, babby sitter etc ) promoting their phone number written on flyers pin on walls or message boards with detachable parts that you tear off for to keep the phone number to call later....

Printing on the flyer also a QRcode which directs to yournumber.tel ( to allow preliminary  discovery) , and printing  onto the detachable part of said papersheet to be picked-up,  the phonenumber .TEL along with the phone number itself, might show more chances to trigger mobile discovery and bookmarking of such easy retrievable proximity service/offer, instead of an anonymous ugly-mobile-phone-number-once-saw-but-could-not-retrieve-nor-check-more-info-or-without-engaging-into-unless-by-anonymous-voice-call-or-not-anonymous-SMS-query.

Therefore providing a basic mechanism from everyday technology (street flyers and papersheet on messages boards !) to increase chances to be get discovered and in touch with anyone  by their prefered mean of communication as :
a. Calling NOW the promoted phone number /service because it matches your urgent need
b. Discovering now or later their phonenumber .tel from their mobile on the go, which dot TEL has all the different contact methods on it plus basic presentation of service, and can be mobile bookmarked by user for more convenient later use.

miércoles, 2 de octubre de 2013

Telnames Enjoy the Rainbow

Telnames ya trabaja con iOS7

On iOS 7? Our app is now ready for you in the - visit and get your thumbs working harder for your business!

martes, 1 de octubre de 2013

A look at .Tel’s 14 year, £25 million journey


    Telnic has lost £25 million since it was founded — and much of that was before .tel even launched.
    DotTelIt’s been a long and winding road for many new top level domain applicants. But most of the delays and challenges new TLD applicants have faced pale in comparison to the very long, very expensive road that .tel registry Telnic has traveled.
    What is .tel?
    .Tel is a unique sponsored top level domain.
    A couple things make .tel particularly unique. First, you can’t host a web site on the domain. Your only option is to create a directory style site such as this. Second, the directory data is stored directly within the DNS.
    History
    Telnic’s genesis was in 1999. Telnic Limited, the company that currently runs .tel, was officially founded the next year.
    The company applied for .tel in 2000 but the application was not approved by ICANN. It resubmitted its application in 2004 and finally inked a contract with ICANN in 2006. It then experienced further delays due to concerns about WHOIS policy conflicting with European Union and UK privacy laws.
    It wasn’t until December 2008 that the company started its sunrise period. Landrush followed in February 2009 and the domain was finally made available to all registrants in March 2009.
    Financials
    Although it took a decade before the company was able to launch .tel, it was supported by investors that offered it $35 million in financing (as of 2008).
    According to financials filed with the United Kingdom government, the company had cumulative losses of nearly £25M as of June 2012.
    In the fiscal year ending June 2008, Telnic had an operating loss of £4.5M. It had already racked up close to £10.5M in losses over its lifetime. The following year, which concluded just a few months after general availability of .tel began, Telnic suffered a £4.1M operating loss. (Because most domain registries recognize revenue over the life of a domain registration, little revenue came in the door that year. It ended the 2009 fiscal year with £1.2M in deferred revenue.)
    The company has yet to turn a profit.
    Telnic Limited ended June 2012 with £6.0 million in cash. That’s a lot of cash to support a relatively small domain registry, and is likely much more than a number of new top level domain applicants are bringing to the table. Yet that sum was down from £9.7M the previous year. If annual cash outflows continued in 2013 at the same pace as in 2011 and 2012, Telnic’s cash balance will be around £3.0 at the end of this fiscal year (next month).
    Telnames Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary that helps promote .tel, had £0.3M in cash at the end of June 2012. The subsidiary owed Telnic Limited £1.4M as of last June.
    Take-aways
    Will .tel be able to turn the corner? As of the end of 2012 it had 218,825 registered domains according to reports filed with ICANN. That number of domains alone isn’t enough to support the cash outlays it has made over the past couple years.
    New TLD applicants can learn some lessons from .tel.
    First and foremost, keep it lean until you’re close to revenue.
    Second, a unique domain isn’t easy to sell.
    .Tel is the most innovative type of domain around. It functions like an online directory page and uniquely stores data directly within the domain name system.
    Yet that innovation has created challenges with domain registrars. Because registrants cannot create a web site on the domain names, it reduces the revenue registrars typically make by selling add-on services. Registrars also had to integrate systems for managing the content on .tel domains.
    Perhaps for these reasons, Go Daddy doesn’t carry .tel. That’s important given the registrar’s dominance in the industry.
    New TLD applicants should take note.
    - See more at: http://domainnamewire.com/2013/05/02/a-look-at-tels-14-year-25-million-journey/#sthash.IpR2ZreI.dpuf