About „neustar“ (www.neustar.biz) and the Dot Tel domain
About Neustar:
Neustar is positioned to be a premier neutral third-party provider of managed services that enable secure, reliable communication across networks, applications and enterprises – and a global leading provider of Internet Protocol (IP) solutions that connect people and technologies.
About Neustars domain name registry services:
Neustar provides the necessary operational support of registrar partners.
Neustar operates Domain name registries, such as .biz, .us, .cn, .travel and .tel.
Last but not least, Neustars endeavours are to help customers stand out, when they manage their online presences.
Neustar claims to provide robust technologies that firms demand in today’s competitive corporate environment, while providing a particularly valuable alternative for small and medium-size businesses. In other words: Providing .biz, .us, and .tel for small and medium-size businesses.
(Which might be, why Telnic, respectively Justin Hayward, only told the large companies to register a Dot Tel domain, to secure their brand, and do nothing else with it (not even populate it...).
However, according to Neustar and Telnic, large businesse where never meant to use a Dot Tel domain, but just to have one, with a sole function, to secure the companies brand name.
Already a while ago, Neustar started to serve the global .biz community by delivering International Domain Names (IDNs) in 15 language character sets, including Chinese, German, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish, Polish, Finnish, Hungarian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Portuguese, Danish, Icelandic, and Norwegian.
(And offers the same service for the Dot Tel domain, since a few weeks.)
.us is gaining in popularity as a social media domain name, thereby heightening its appeal and relevance, especially for younger users, groups and associations. Many businesses and organizations have purchased .biz or .us domain names either as their primary domain, or as a brand protection measure.
Some businesses have purchased .tel domain names either as their primary domain, or as a brand protection measure (and in many cases, only because this was recommended by the .tel registry).
A number of high-profile foreign companies doing business in this country have begun promoting their .us extension as their primary website for the American market, which gives them a “local” presence in the United States. For example „Air France“ with „www.airfrance.us“, which gets a lot of traffic...
Neustar works with you to make your business a success through marketing programs that have been carefully designed to build awareness and preference for the .biz and .us domains.
So maybe the .tel domain will follow...?
The customers of Neustar trust them, because they know we live up to our promises while providing outstanding technical, security, marketing, and policy support. On the other hand, we can not say the same about the .tel registry (Telnic): Often, they hadn't lived up to their promises for offering new features to be available and fully functionable, within the time frame they had set. But they where however fully bodied announced, in the press releases. Quite disappointing, I would say. Even worse, when the .tel registry surpresses all complaints about failures to come up in time with promised new features, options and services, etc.
Neustar operates the authoritative registries of Internet domain names for the .biz, .us, .tel and .travel top-level domains. They also provide international registry gateways for China’s .cn and Taiwan’s .tw country-code top-level domains. All Internet communications routing to any of these domains must query a copy of their directory to ensure that the communication is routed to the appropriate destination.
Further thoughts:
.tel probably won't get more popular than .us or .biz, it is in the hands of the same technical service provider: Neustar.
Neustars endeavours are to provide a smooth and good technical functionality for the dot Tel domain (.tel).
However, Telnic, the registry, who tries to improve the domain, only makes things worse, by taking the wrong steps, or taking too long to achieve something newly announced. And then again, if thing don't work, like they are supposed to work, users get frustrated. Which has all in all a negative impact on the Dot Tel domain and image.
Telnic is practicing false economy, by saving on professional staff, and letting quasi allrounders do all the tasks (programming, forum moderating, customer relations, etc.).
So, it is quite a mess on the Telnic side, but Neustar services enable a certain quality standart and stability.
Wednesday, 23 June 2010
Saturday, 12 June 2010
Wednesday, 19 May 2010
Symsource releases its first Android application, for award-winning .tel names
Symsource Limited, the mobile engineering experts behind some of today’s most widely used applications, has announced the release of the My.tel application running on the Android platform.
Developed on behalf of Telnic Limited (http://telnic.tel) - which created the award-winning communications-focused .tel names - Symsource’s My.tel for Android management app allows users to manage their .tel contact information in real time. The application developed by Symsource supports Android OS 1.5 and is oriented to popular devices from HTC and other providers.
Gareth Jehu, Director of Operations at Telnic, commented: “Telnic has been impressed by Symsource's professional approach to product development, competitive pricing and their ability to meet our expectations within tight cost and quality constraints. These attributes have enabled us to move quickly and launch the .tel client into the Android marketplace at a time when market share for the Android operating platform is gaining rapid momentum."
Omid Rezvani, CEO of Symsource (http://symsource.tel), said: “We are delighted to be part of the .tel names ecosystem. The management application we have developed gives Android users the power to manage their instant mobile presence, enabling contacts to find them as soon as contact information, location and keywords have been published. Our app allows users to benefit from Telnic’s innovative technology, which reduces the cost of downloading data from the mobile web and significantly increases the speed of accessing real-time information. This is critical for smart phone users.”
Source:
http://www.sourcewire.com/releases/rel_display.php?relid=mgiTT
http://www.symsource.com/
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Sunday, 16 May 2010
Dot Tel Sale May 2010
Alexander Schiesser
schiesser@2wire.ch
Prices in Euros.
First come, first serve.
cashgame.tel 160
cashgamer.tel 160
cashgames.tel 160
casinogamer.tel 160
casinogaming.tel 160
casinomobi.tel 80
dialaescort.tel 160
dottelplaza.tel 80
eco-coffee.tel 160
eco-commerce.tel 160
eco-cottage.tel 160
eco-home.tel 160
eco-homes.tel 160
eco-tea.tel 160
ecocoating.tel 160
ecocoffee.tel 260
ecocommerce.tel 180
ecocompliance.tel 180
ecocompliant.tel 180
ecoconform.tel 180
ecocottage.tel 180
ecodynamic.tel 160
ecodynamics.tel 180
ecoenterprise.tel 260
ecofashion.tel 180
ecofinance.tel 180
ecoheating.tel 180
ecokid.tel 180
ecokids.tel 180
ecopaint.tel 180
ecopainting.tel 180
ecopaints.tel 180
ecopaper.tel 260
ecopartners.tel 260
ecopet.tel 260
ecoservice.tel 260
ecoshopping.tel 260
ecosocial.tel 160
ecotea.tel 260
green-home.tel 160
green-homes.tel 260
green-hotels.tel 180
greencompliance.tel 180
greencompliant.tel 180
greenprofessionals.tel 260
greentax.tel 360
mobilegamer.tel 240
rushpoker.tel 240
schweizerhof.tel 240
strawbale.tel 240
Thursday, 13 May 2010
Hunt for the ugly duckling
Telnic trying to replicate their earlier success (Love Train)
Hunt for the ugly duckling
Telnic forum thread (most posts had been deleted after):
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05-13-2010, 11:22 AM
Nadya
.tel Treasure Hunt
Hi all,
Tomorrow at 12pm BST we're starting the exciting .tel treasure hunt. For your convenience, I'll post useful links here:
* http://thejourneystarts.tel/ - the main resource & starting point
* http://telnic.org/competition.html - official rules of the competition, please read
* http://telnic.org/banners/treasurehunt/ - banners to promote the competition
* http://www.prnewswire.com/news-relea...-93661194.html - press release with the announcement
Let the fun begin!
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mactel
05-13-2010, 11:57 AM
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This will keep the minds of .Tel users occupied and distracted, rather than that they will be able to be worried about the real worries and problems about .Tel.
What happens if the registry can't fullfill the promised time stipulated for releasing the template selection: Don't worrie, be happy and play the ".tel treasure hunt". That's what you usually do with small children, to let them forget about the existing problems and worries, and let them be in a "other world" of play and fantasy.
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Nadya
05-13-2010, 12:09 PM
Mactel,
Thank you for your comment. Please remember that this is a brand awareness and educational campaign for .tel domains and TelPages targeted at internet users in general, not exclusively at .tel owners. This is why we've shared banners and PR so that active .tel owners can help spread the word and increase the value and popularity of .tel domains.
If the competition doesn't sound appealing to you, you can continue focusing on securing your portfolio, developing your domains and sales efforts.
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Mactel
05-13-2010, 12:44 PM
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Yes, but:
"help spread the word and increase the value and popularity of .tel domains" will make more sense, if there is a decent telproxy to show ("off" with).
At this stage, and mainly because telproxy is not very appealing to look at, many potential companies are not very interested, or not (yet) interested in .Tel.
So, this promo effort, comes too early, wheras the efforts to make .Tel look nicer, are very late.
It is not so smart to try to promote a ugly duckling, when it would be easyer to promote a white swan.
Put your efforts and energy into bringing out the .Tel template selection. "Treasure hunt" is another thing, done at the wrong time. Same as the new telproxy came out too late, just before renewal time, putting loads of people off, if only left "gray in gray", and not used to add a nice logo, and a tasteful colour scheme. The new .Tel look was quasi a anti-promotion, as the look needs a lot more refinement options.
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Saturday, 8 May 2010
Why .tel?
Domainvestors.tv - Why .tel? from Domainvestor on Vimeo.
In this video I discuss the reasons why I think .tel domains could be a good investment. While .tel may never be successful in the Domaining world, I have reason to believe this will be a success in the business world.
.tel is the first time I have seen Domainers close their mind to a new idea so quickly. I think the reason for this is simple – .tel is not a TLD for Domainers. We are oftentimes afraid of what we do not know, or what we do not understand. Look at Alexander Graham Bell – when he first invented the telephone many people were terrified of the new device. It is easy to be afraid of what we do not understand, but closing your mind might only cause you miss-out on an incredible opportunity.
I share some great quotes from a recent post by Kevin Jackson of ebusinessdomains.com.
Along with my own thoughts on .tel I have included an on-screen demo of how to configure your .tel domain as well as an example of a strong application for .tel – cancel.tel.
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