Webnames.ca StaffFor companies who are in the emerging “alternative energy” market or working in environmental sustainability, domain names with the word green in them are like gold. There are even websites devoted to reselling green-themed domain names. It would appear that all the good ones are gone, but are they really? Every week, expiring dot-CA domain…
ICANN has reported on the significant effect of a short term measure to reduce domain tasting by charging a per-transaction fee on all names deleted during the five-day Add Grace Period (AGP) if they exceed a defined threshhold. Names added and then deleted during the AGP declined by 84% from 17.6M in June 2008 to…
Some people still have a tough time wrapping their minds around dot TEL and what all the fuss is about. I think this is partly because it’s a domain name but with different functionality and partly because some of the benefit comes from your friends having a dot TEL, rather than just you having one.…
JuliannaVance P. Hedderel, dotMobi’s Director of PR and Communications responded to speculation about .mobi’s viability vis-à-vis .TEL on the dotMobi blog this past Monday, stating that the purpose of the two domains is very different. “Now, the .tel domain is launching … and people are asking, “Won’t .tel help me locate content that will work…
JuliannaThe Register.co.uk published an article last week about how dot-tel will be unattractive to cybersquatters because it does not host websites, only contact information that will be sent to Internet-enabled devices. Cyberquatters make money by placing pay-per-click advertisements on web pages that are set up on domain names which visitors assume belong to a legitimate organization.…
Amy ElderkinMy teenage children both asked me to pre-book them a .TEL name last week. On the face of it, it’s just a question of submitting the domain request, but the process turned into something a lot more long winded and raised some serious concerns around privacy, identity theft and spam. The lighter side of the…
Cybele NegrisYou say you haven’t heard about dot-TEL yet! I’m suprised. Webnames.ca has been inundated by media wanting to hear more about what dot-TEL is all about. John Demco, co-founder of Webnames.ca and founder of .CA for Canada has been across the country in recent weeks at the request of media to speak about dot-TEL. He’s…
John DemcoThe ICANN meetings in Cairo are under way and will continue through November 7. One of the main topics to be covered is the planned introduction of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs). Other topics include: internationalized domain names (IDNs), single-character second-level domain names, improving institutional confidence, and the recent independent reviewer’s report on the ICANN…
Telnic the brains behind the .Tel domain name, is allowing end users to populate the NAPTR, TXT and LOC records of the DNS. The LOC record is particularly interesting. It was proposed in 1996 as an experimental protocol to get a visual track back of packets and ultimately lead you to the physical location of…
Amy ElderkinIn addition to the sample applications Telnic have created for the .TEL domain on mobile devices including the Blackberry, iPhone and Windows Mobile smart phones, there’s also a plugin for Microsoft Outlook. Like the mobile device applications, it can be downloaded from the new Developer Community portal at http://dev.telnic.org/, together with the source code, whitepapers,…
Amy ElderkinIt’s early days for .TEL and the first app specifically for the Blackberry is in pre-release, but I still find myself excited as I wait for the 15 seconds or so it takes to download and install over the air. Telnic have created sample applications for the Blackberry iPhone, Windows CE and Outlook, primarily to…
John DemcoICANN has released for review and comment a draft version of the Applicant Guidebook for applying for new generic top-level domains (gTLDs). The guidebook comprises six modules on these topics: introduction to the new gTLDs application process, evaluation procedures, dispute resolution procedures, string contention procedures, transition to delegation, and application terms and conditions. A per…
Amy ElderkinI have to admit to a small amount of jealousy when I first saw the dot-TEL app on John Demco’s iPhone. I’d installed a copy of the Blackberry app on my 8830 a few days earlier and had been very pleased with the promise it showed. But on top of the functionality, it really looks very…
Nick CaristinosBeing in the middle of our .tel campaign and also in the midst of looking for a new house, it dawned on me how useful it would be if real estate agents and sales representatives all had a .TEL. I keep thinking how simple it would be if the “For Sale” sign listed the .TEL…
JuliannaReporter Gillian Shaw of the Vancouver Sun interviewed Webnames.ca Director John Demco as a source for her recent .TEL article. Read an except below, then click the link for the complete article. ‘Dot-tel’ names emerge as catch-all ID for Web contactTuesday, October 21, 2008 Asking a prospective date for a phone number is so last century. Starting…
