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…
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,…
I’m kinda, sorta, maybe in the market to buy a house. As I walk through the neighbourhood admiring other people’s gardens, I stumble upon a house for sale that appeals to me. Sadly, by the time I have arrived home, I have forgotten the address of the house for sale. I could not give you…
.TEL is at an exciting stage with new enhancements, applications and compatible services becoming available to end users. This week saw the launch of a .TEL specific search engine, applications for both BlackBerry and iPhone, as well as domain based email. Here’s a summary of what’s new in .TEL-land: .TEL Search Engines Jepaa – Delivering…
Garrett SaundryFor those of you who plan to use .TEL as your primary web presence, or even a secondary one to your business website, consider adding an email account with your .TEL name. We’ve received a lot of great feedback from customers who are actively using their .TEL names to share contact details with friends and…
JuliannaLast week, The Coast Reporter, a BC community newspaper published the first known print ad to prominently feature the dot-TEL name of a local small business. John Mckenzie, a Sunshine Coast realtor, published his dot-TEL name – JohnMcKenzie.tel – alongside colour photos of his current listings. Specializing in home sales on the Sunshine Coast of British Columbia,…
Amy ElderkinMost of us have, at one time or another, dreamed of escaping it all and disappearing to a Caribbean island or a log cabin in the mountains for some peace and tranquility. While this particular dream will elude most of us (and would probably get a little dull after a couple of weeks), those who…
Julianna.TEL launched this week and is continuing to build momentum. Landrush presents the first chance for the public to register .TEL domain names in real time. Tens of thousands of pre-booked names were submitted by over 100 registrars worldwide at 7:00 AM PST on Tuesday, February 3rd. Landrush registration fees range between $375 to $500 USD for a…
It’s an all European match and it’s still up in the air as to who will come out the victor. There are two contenders from the UK, two from the Netherlands and one from Germany. If it wasn’t for the “first come first served” policy that is in place, I think the book makers would…
Garrett Saundry.TEL domain names won’t be going live until February 3, 2009, but anyone that wants to get a better idea of how .TEL works can get a free trial name through Telnic’s VIP program. Through the program, people can create a name in the format [yourName].vip.tel and manage contact information using a beta release of…
Amy ElderkinThere has been a proliferation of dot TEL articles and client alerts appearing on blogs, web sites and newsletters of law firms and intellectual property firms over the past weeks. With Sunrise Registration for trademark holders beginning December 3, trademark holders have just one week remaining to pre-book their trademark names. “One of the reasons…
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.…
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