An Illustrated Guide to Setting up AdSense for your .TEL If like many of us, you invested in a few .TEL names that you hope to sell one day, you might have been interested in Telnic’s announcement that from the beginning of April, they would be supporting Google AdSense. Google AdSense is the program that…
Cybele NegrisHappy 1st birthday .TEL! It has been quite a year. One year ago today (March 24, 2009) .TEL general registration launched to the world and today there are about 275,000 .TEL names registered globally. Webnames.ca has experienced quite a ride over the last year. Beyond just selling .TEL, “the digital business card that never goes…
Cybele NegrisHere’s a quick summary of some of the new features in .TEL: 1. Logo/Picture – you can now upload a logo or picture by referencing the website location (URL) of the image you want to use. The easiest way I found to achieve this is by referencing my twitter avatar. (right click on your Twitter…
Cybele NegrisWith any new technology, people need proof of concept and to see real life examples working. I decided a few months ago to track what I was doing with my own .TEL updates for http://cybele.tel and see what effect they would have on how my rank in Google. My .TEL is now in 5th (see screenshot below)…
JuliannaTelnic, the organization behind the award-winning .tel domain, today announced that Google AdSense will be supported in .tel names by the end of March 2010. Google AdSense is a free program that enables website publishers of all sizes to display relevant Google ads and earn additional revenue. Because .tel names store information directly in the…
Webnames.ca StaffWe love dot tel and we want everyone to learn about it. To that end we made a short, 15 second commercial that is now airing on the Shaw TV Listings channel (2) in Vancouver. For those of you who don’t live in Vancouver or have chucked your TV because there is nothing on, (why…
Webnames.ca StaffNever ones to let the grass grow under their feet, Telnic have once again improved the Telhosting interface. On Thursday October 22nd they are releasing two new great features: Backup/Import and 255 character labels. I did a test of the Backup and Import and it worked really well. The backup file gets exported as an…
JuliannaEarlier in the month we randomly drew a winner in our .TEL -Blackberry Strom contest. Webnames.ca customer Nancy Hamilton is the recipient of a fancy new Blackberry Storm smartphone courtesy of our friends over at Telus. In fact, Nancy’s own .TEL is great example of how to use .TEL for business – check it out at…
We loved our dot tel 411 and Locksmith videos and now we have 3 more videos to love. Telregistrations.com is laying down the dot tel video gauntlet with these fantastic, animated advertisements. The videos illustrate the usefulness of a dot tel for everyone. The music is great as is the “Charlie Brown’s teacher” voiceovers. A co-worker…
Amy ElderkinHave you been following the .TEL story but still have questions? Perhaps you’ve already got your .TEL but want to learn how to integrate it into your Social Media and marketing strategies? Well if you’re based in Vancouver, why not come along to the first Dot Tel Meet Up meeting on Friday, October 9th? Webnames.ca…
Garrett SaundryThe amazing illustrator Scot Ritchie gave us a fantastic cartoon to use to advertise .tel to realtors. It shows one realtor with lots of information on his lawn sign and one realtor just using her .tel name on her sign. We are looking for clever captions to use in the advert and are hoping that…
It’s “back to school” time again. But this year there is something new: .TEL. Only a dunce would pass up the opportunity to buy these great “back to school” inspired .TEL names. I can’t believe these are still available: Physed.telBleachers.telTeacherspet.telSemester.telBully.telWoodshop.telGymclass.telSpiral.telViceprincipal.telHazing.telMetalshop.telPledge.telKickball.telPopquiz.telClipboard.telFrosh.telOath.telLineup.telBookbag.telPrepschool.telFreshman.telRounders.telSocialstudies.telRushing.telHaze.tel Start the school year off right and begin to build a domain portfolio that will pay for…
We have a steady number of people downloading Hornet, our free Blackberry .tel address book. We could not have gotten the volume if the app had not been featured on some of the Blackberry blogs. Rimarkable.com is sending us a lot of traffic (such a clever name) and hot on their heels are: blackberryrocks.com, blackberryblast.com, blackberry-fr.com,…
As of last week, .TEL reached 200,000 registrations. This milestone was achieved less than two months after general registration started on March 26. For a TLD that isn’t particularly easy to explain, or easy to grasp, .TEL is doing phenomenally well. The concept and potential utility of .TEL resonates with businesses and individuals more than other recently released…
