So now you’ve found out it’s 8000 square feet and it’s $60 a square foot. Too big and way too expensive! So you’ve wasted your time and you’ve wasted the realtor’s time.

If, on the other hand, the only thing on the sign was the dot tel name, the realtor would have a prequalified lead when phone rang. “How” you ask?

If you add the price, the square footage and links to the pictures in to the .tel, the customer just has to type the .tel name into their smart phone and in an instant all the key information they need to know is available.

When they “click to call” on the realtor’s phone number that is also available in the .tel, the realtor is getting an interested party on the end of the line not just an information inquiry.

So commercial realtors everywhere – heed my call: Put dot tel on your For Lease and For Rent signs – you’ll thank me for it.

Getting between 30 and 40 attendees each time, these monthly meeting have been the go to place for connecting with avid .tel holders.

Telnic is usually kind enough to video Skype in to share new and upcoming plans and features and each meeting has a particular focus – be it monetizing, to getting others to use theirs more, to building out directories.

There is a plan in the works to extend the reach from Vancouver into the wider world with Go To Webinar.

If you have a topic you would like to present (from wherever you are in the world), you can email Marilyn, the organizer, through meetup.com once you have signed in.

The release addresses the display issues caused by updates to long descriptions for records and it provides support for long text in the keyword sections. It improves the labels for lesser used record types.

Upgrading to 1.07 won’t immediately fix any display issues the user was having. The user must refresh the contact and then save it again. The next time they view the record, the display issues will be addressed.

Any user wanting to upgrade from 1.03 to 1.07 must first upgrade to 1.05, otherwise they will lose their list of .tel names. Upgrading from 1.05 or 1.06 to 1.07 will not result in the loss of .TEL names.

The easiest way to upgrade is to browse to http://hornet.tel on the Blackberry, click the download link, then click either the Storm or OS 4.2+ link (Blackberry users should know the difference). The link will ask if they want to download the application. Just say Yes and follow the instructions. A restart is required to complete the installation.

Hornet can also be found on the web at www.hornethub.com.

This is the first time a domain name has been sold in retail locations as a gift card.

Nick Ellery of CanTalk Wireless and .tel gift cards

You can find CanTalk at www.cantalkwireless.ca and can follow them on Twitter @cantalkwireless .

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.

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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”.

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!

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!

Qwista – http://www.qwista.com/eng – it indexes all the DNS entries. It has a mobile version that worked well on the Blackberry. You can choose to search for business or individuals.

DotTelFinder.com – http://www.dottelfinder.com/directory/ – it is an opt in directory that has a basic listing that is free and a premium listing that is $2.55 one time. Dottelfinder aggregates tweets about .tel and also aggregates news coming from Telnic and some prominent .tel blogs (including this one!).

Jepaa – http://www.jepaa.com/ – it too indexes the DNS. It’s a bit slower than the other two.

Telnic will be launching TelPages – http://www.telpages.com/ – soon.

Dottelcentral.com – http://www.dottelcentral.com – is a yahoo style browseable directory that is opt-in. The nice thing about this directory is that all the .tel names included in it, are fleshed out.

In these directories you may stumble across a company or person who is doing something you are interested in – just like a Google search – but drilled down to their essential contact details.

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

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How to be Cool with Your Own .TEL Name

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Forget Phone Numbers. Dial Your Name with .TEL

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