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Now even quicker and easier!

Thursday, April 7th, 2011

We’re continuously looking at ways to make .tel names more accessible, especially for those who don’t find technology that easy to grasp. And now the .tel control panel has a new Quick Setup tool that helps novice users setup their .tel page in three simple steps. Once a new user logs into the control panel for the first time, they will be offered to complete the Quick Setup entering their basic information, contact details, social media links and location, creating a clean and simple professional-looking online presence. If you are capable of filling in a simple form, you will be able to publish all of your contact information online, in one simple-to-access place that you own, with the benefit of being found wherever you are.

The Quick Setup will show automatically for all .tel names that have not been set up yet, provided there are no other domains in the same account. The Setup allows you to enter your information, preview it and publish online. You can then continue using the .tel control panel adding more information, customising the design of your .tel, etc. We hope this tool will help more people and businesses get started with their .tel names.

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TelChina CEO triumphs in Business Awards

Wednesday, March 30th, 2011

We’re delighted to share the news that Lucy Wang, CEO of TelChina, won a significant award this week.

On March 27th, the 10th Awarding Ceremony for the Top Ten Businesswomen in China was staged in Beijing. Lucy was awarded the title of “Prominent New Businesswomen”. This event was run by the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce.  The event selects the most accomplished female entrepreneurs in China.

It’s already garnered a host of press coverage and so we congratulate Lucy on her accomplishments in such a relatively short space of time, with TelChina being less than a year old. For more information, see local press.

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Happy Birthday .tel!

Thursday, March 24th, 2011

Today we’re celebrating the 2nd anniversary of .tel opening for general registration! We’d like to thank all of our community members for their support and their active role in the .tel world via the forum, newsletter, I Love My Tel and various other projects worldwide.

In these two years, we’ve been places and done things – remember Laura and her treasure hunt? The .telebrities with their shiny new digital cameras? And more recently, the .tel design competition? Our .tel of the week is now over a hundred strong, and there have been dozens of .tel stories told by proud owners from all walks of life; from senior executives to bakers to sword swallowers!

To trace the .tel history and the development of its technology, ecosystem and community, take a look at our timeline of events, and see some statistics that we shared with you in the latest issue of our newsletter .tel by the numbers. Earlier this year, Telnic’s CEO Khashayar Mahdavi addressed the global .tel community to summarise the latest trends, achievements, and the goals ahead. We look forward to carrying out those goals throughout the year and hope to continue enjoy our community’s support and enthusiasm.

When .tel launched to the world on March 24th 2009 (after Sunrise and Landrush), we happily coincided with Ada Lovelace Day, sometimes portrayed as the World’s first computer programmer.  It was pure serendipity and not planned.  We hope however to continue in her footsteps in developing useful technology for the benefit of all.

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.tel hotel directory integrates into Google Maps

Thursday, March 10th, 2011

Today I made an interesting discovery on Google Maps – a link to a .tel directory from a Place listing for a hotel in Greece. Although King Minos Palace 4-star hotel in Hersonissos has its own website, the Google Maps listing shows http://crete-hotels.tel as the link for more information, going straight to http://king-minos-palace.heraklion.4-stars.crete-hotels.tel/. On the screenshot below showing results for a Google search “hotel Hersonissos”, results D and E both link to the .tel directory. According to the developer of the directory, they are already seeing an increase in traffic coming into the directory from these Maps listings, although they have not manually submitted these Place listings into Google.

Hotel with a link to .tel directory in Google Maps

Hotel with a link to .tel directory in Google Maps

This integration has become possible due to the support for the hCard microformat  built into .tel pages. All the relevant information you enter into your .tel is marked up with corresponding hCard format fields, such as geo position, name and address. Google’s services support hCard as well as other microformats and rich data snippets in a bid to provide users with “the most useful and informative search results”.

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Android conquers at Mobile World Congress

Monday, February 21st, 2011

There’s no denying that this year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona was dominated by Google’s Android.  There were hundreds of them all over the place!

Not to miss out on the fun, Telnic launched .tel Superbook for Android at the show. This new Android version now incorporates the .telpages search engine into the application, meaning that people can both search for and type in a specific .tel domain to look up.  Additionally, we refreshed the my.tel for Android and launched a new version of my.tel for the iPhone (remember them?!), all of which are in the relevant app stores and market places.

Stand 1D68 in Hall 1 was pretty much a hive of activity for most of the four days (even though the picture was taken in the calm before the storm!).  With 60,000 attendees, up 20% on last year’s numbers, it was an extremely busy show.  As part of the UK Trade & Investment community at the event, we managed to meet a whole host of companies from hardware manufacturers through to VoIP providers, distributors through to mobile payment providers, infrastructure companies through to developers, all of whom were intrigued by the use of the DNS as a publishing platform.  With some, immediate benefits were obvious and we’re looking forward to continuing those conversations and making some announcements later in the year as these come to fruition. With others we’re sure it will take a little more time as they begin to understand the opportunities and new services that they might provide their customers.

With significant changes in the mobile industry from big players getting together, the demise of Symbian, mass adoption of tablets and new operating systems emerging, discovery becomes an even bigger problem with more devices and more ways of communicating than ever before.  This year, many in the mobile telecommunications industry agreed that functionally, .tel is an ideal solution for this problem.

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.tel Contact Manager plug-in for WordPress

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009

One of the features in this blog is “Find me now”, a WordPress plug-in developed by Heiko Henning, and offered to the .tel community back in May. Another .tel friend, BommTel, picked this up and offered more detailed instructions on his own blog. Both posts are in German.

We have decided to try the contact manager out and share our impressions. Perhaps, with feedback from new users, Heiko will improve the plug-in and move it from a Beta to a full release.

Basically, the .tel contact manager installs as a plug-in to your blog and gets contact information from a domain or sub-domain that you provide. We used contact.telnic.tel. You can pick and choose which contact items you’d like to display, and the icons you’ll be using (double-click the icon in the plug-in edit dialogue to change it). Once that’s setup and the plug-in PHP file points to the correct locations, you should see the new contact details display on your blog.

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Welcome to the official .tel Blog

Monday, November 2nd, 2009

We’re now launching an official blog to cover news, events, features and discussions around .tel domains, and to keep the .tel community informed on the latest news. We hope this will grow into a lively and useful resource – looking forward to exciting posts!

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