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Beta version of the official tel search engine “Telpages” has launched

admin — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 17:40:38 +0000

Telpages is the official Search Engine for .tels brought to you by Telnic. It’s in Beta right now.

http://beta.telpages.com/search.action

When I searched for Contractor, it brought up loads of results with contractor.tel coming out on top. It has a nice feature of any of the subdomains under contractor.tel will show up slightly indented below it.

The Advanced Search had the handy feature of letting me search by “Where”. When I put in Calgary, it gave me 346 hits and Calgary.tel was #1.

Another fun video from telregistration.com

admin — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 20:12:29 +0000

Is it just me or don’t we all have a new found love of stick figure videos! The amusing folks at telregistration.com have come up with another winner.

CLICK HERE TO WATCH THIS VIDEO

It shows the utility of having all your contact data in one place and apparently the added benefit of using it to pick up your local health practitioner.

My line is always – “dot tel – it’s useful, not sexy” – maybe I’m going to have to change that to “it’s useful and sexy”.

November showers bring … Rainy Day .tel Names

admin — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:06:52 +0000

Let’s embrace the crappy November weather by celebrating it with rain themed dot tel names.

From Discovery Education's Clip Art Gallery. Mark A. Hicks, illustrator.

Once again, I can’t believe these have not been taken:

Rainy.tel
Puddle.tel
Brolly.tel
Scattered.tel
Isolated.tel
Rainfall.tel
CatsAndDogs.tel
Pouring.tel
Teeming.tel
Precipitation.tel
Downppour.tel
Drizzle.tel
Lashing.tel
Torrential.tel
Deluge.tel

Hop to it and register one of these before the monsoons hit!

Spotted on the Street – .tel!

admin — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:05:20 +0000

I was super excited to see a dot tel name on the side of van.

The nice people at Pipe Dreams Plumbing in Coquitlam, BC Canada got the easy to remember name of coquitlamplumber.tel.

You’re stopped at the light, next to the van and you can type coquitlamplumber.tel into Hornet for Blackberry or Superbook for iPhone and you are set for your next burst pipe or flooded basement.

Coquitlamplumber.tel – to the rescue!

Simply .TEL

admin — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:18:53 +0000

TelRegistration (www.telregistration.com) have created a great series of fun short animations that really get to the heart of .TEL.

Each video illustrates a different aspect of .TEL showing just how simple and useful .TEL can be. They’ve really capured the essence of .TEL and conveyed it in a way that is not only easy to understand but great fun too.

There are three in the series so far. Check them out on YouTube. Keep up the great work guys!

Easy Instant Website / Online Business Card with .TEL

Watch video on YouTube

How to be Cool with Your Own .TEL Name

Watch video on YouTube

Forget Phone Numbers. Dial Your Name with .TEL

Watch video on YouTube

For more information please visit http://www.telregistration.com

Vancouver Steps Up Interest in TEL

admin — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 21:08:52 +0000

According to One Vancouver (www.one-vancouver.com) the community portal for .TEL in Vancouver, BC activity levels around .TEL have increased dramatically over the past few weeks …

According to One Vancouver the community portal for .TEL in Vancouver, BC activity levels around .TEL have increased dramatically over the past few weeks. One Vancouver seeks to create a focal point for different parties interested in .TEL. Partners currently involved include mobility stores, a business network, search engine specialist and even an national coffee chain.

The group’s activity is centred on getting the word out to people in the local community – raising awareness about .tel and what it means to local business. There are speaking engagements, exhibits, broad based advertising including billboards, television and radio, organised meet ups and highly targeted advertising based at specific industries in the area.

By joining forces, the One Vancouver partners have managed to reach a large local audience and get people talking about .TEL. The group have a number of programs already underway and a long list of activities planned for the coming months to keep the dialogue continuing within the local business community.

Read the full article at One Vancouver.

Fabulously Dramatic .tel Names Still Available Dahhhhling!

admin — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:31:47 +0000

It’s fall and we can finally fling off the barbeques and picnics of summer and move into loftier pursuits – like the theatre. I can barely believe that these “front row” dot tel names are yours for the buying.

Farce
Interlude
Playbill
CurtainCall
Ovation
Understudy
Swordfight
Kabuki
Libretto
StandingOvation
LeadingLady
LeadingMan
Macbeth
LadyMacbeth
Soliliquy
Troupe
OffBroadway
Masque
Hiss
Ballad
Disguise
FringeFestival
ComedyFestival
KingLear
Sandbag
Prologue
Rake
Repertory
Offstage
Pantomime

On with the show, this is it!

The World’s Oldest Profession Discovers .TEL

admin — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 17:51:39 +0000

For the last couple of months, the joke around the office has been that dot tel would be extremely useful for “ladies of the evening”.

We just couldn’t come up with a way of marketing to them that didn’t sink us into tawdriness.

Well it looks like we are too late – they have discovered dot tel without our help.

Anyone who is on Twitter has a large number of “working girls” following them. A review of the tweets that Dot Tel Finder aggregates http://www.dottelfinder.com/tweets/ shows two such ladies who believe .tel would be an asset to their business.

Some Googling on this particular demographic of Twitter users shows that they are early adopters of all technologies as their job mandates the need for constant promotion and accessibility.

It seems that any sole proprietorship has the same needs – you have to constantly market yourself in different arenas and be available to clients through a myriad of channels.

So if Twookers have discovered .tel , why haven’t you?

To search for your .TEL name, click here.

.TEL – because you only have two hands

admin — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 17:36:53 +0000

You’re at your favourite coffee shop. You have your usual “low fat, half caf, soy milk, double shot, Sumatran” clutched in one hand and your iPhone in the other.

You are running late (as usual) and then you spy an ex-colleague across the room. He’s actually a co-worker that you liked and want to stay in touch with.

You do the “Bob it’s great to see you, where are you working, let’s do lunch this week” thing. Now comes the tricky part. You’ve got to go but you need to swap contact info.

Do you:
A: Allow Bob to slip his card into you back pocket thereby looking like an early morning lothario?
B: Put down your phone and coffee to scrabble around in your bag for your card, making you even later?
C: Hunt around for a pen because you have both left your cards at the office?
D: Tell Bob your dot tel name that he inputs into his Blackberry while you input his into your iPhone?

Your phone was made to work with one hand, as was your coffee cup. .Tel recognizes that mobile phone users tend to be coffee drinkers and has worked closely with both industries to make sure that you never need to grow a third hand.

Internet Real Estate – there’s always gold in those hills.

admin — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 22:49:26 +0000

Sedo is reporting the sale of storage.tel for $3950 U.S. Conceivably this name was purchased during Landrush for about $375 U.S.

By sitting on it for 5 months, the owner was able to make back 10 times the purchase price.

Some good .tel names are still available:

Tinfoil
Coatrack
Shoelace
Bathing
Subtract
Buspass
Planter
Floorlamp
Dial-up
Humid
Humidity
Sunnies
Exclude
Broom
Chipboard
Crisps
Grommet
Handshake
Forgetful
Slingback
Tired