Tag Archives: .tel

GOOG-411

May 7, 2009

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GOOG-411 (or Google Voice Local Search) is a telephone service from Google that allows users to search for a business in any U.S. or Canadian city by calling a toll-free telephone number. The  service uses speech recognition technology to connect users to their desired business. Users that call 1-800-466-4411 are told that the call is [...]

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Start your Engines!

March 24, 2009

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Well today was the day! .com, .net, .mobi, .org, .net, .info, .biz, .uk, .de, bz, pro… the list goes on and they all serve a purpose in the “right” environment, but… .tel (yes I like this concept) is different at its core and today became available to the general public at generally acceptable price levels. [...]

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Don’t wait too long to protect your .tel domain

March 19, 2009

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We’re well past the Sunrise period imposed by Telnic to allow Trademark owners exclusive rights to protect their .tel extensions and there are only  a few days left to the Landrush period. The premium fees associated with the registration of .tel domains during the Landrush period was set to discourage domain squatters from snapping up [...]

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If smartphones are the fastest growing devices on the planet, shouldn’t you consider it part of your marketing strategy?

March 16, 2009

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According to Gartner Research, cell phones utilizing the Mac OS had growth of over 245.7% in 2008.  The BlackBerry platform had the second best growth at 96.7%.  This is pretty powerful, as more and more efforts will go toward continuing the growth of these numbers and the greater their success, the greater the opportunity for [...]

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Is .tel the new seamless contact venue it appears to be?

February 17, 2009

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We may be in the middle of a recession (I refuse to use the “D” word), but we are also in the middle of an exciting  “land rush” for a new, and unique, domain extension. .tel provides a new internet standard for users  to control contact information “on-the-fly” directly at the DNS (Domain Name System) [...]

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