Comments on: Dot Tel Buzz (i.e. what is .tel anyway?)

By: SunstarTerri

SunstarTerri — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 17:58:12 +0000

Henri & Jens – I have posted my phone number on .tel as you have dispelled my concerns. :0)

Thanks for your comments everyone.

By: Henri Asseily

Henri Asseily — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 09:18:51 +0000

Terri, if you thought there was humour in the slides, you should see my delivery. :p

There is absolutely no problem with data mining because:
1- phone solicitations are very much frowned upon, especially mobile phones. There are laws against that.

2- email harvesting is a non-issue: either you have a good spam filter or you don’t. If you do, then nothing changes. If you don’t, you’d better fix it.

FYI I’ve experienced no data mining issues and everything I’ve put up on henri.tel is public. You can of course make the stuff private using the TelFriends system, but I haven’t seen the need.

(and before anyone harps on wanting to “obscure” an email address via JavaScript or pictures, that doesn’t work with .tel because the data is in the DNS)

By: Jens

Jens — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 07:45:45 +0000

Terri, That is a good point. I doubt it will be confusing, since you will be able to search any name via http://www.telpages.com and other search engines. So it would not be necessary you carry your name inside of the domain name. (Not everyone will have this luxury.) It will be enough to mention the name in the header.

Data protection is a very important issue. Luckily you can protect your personal phone number and hide it from the public, so only confirmed friends (with http://www.telfriends.tel) will be able to see it.

Of course the benefit of it all will be only visible as soon many people start using TEL domains. But be patient; the distribution as well as the technical development just started and we will see a lot of new features in the future.

By: SunstarTerri

SunstarTerri — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:24:17 +0000

Jens – I agree that when/if .Tel becomes mainstream it could be very useful for the reasons of convenience and ease, but it might also be very confusing since there are multiple people in the world with my name – how will people know it’s me from the limited info on my TEL page?

Another question I have – has there been any problems with data mining of .tel pages for phone number info? I want to put my number up, but don’t want solicitation calls…

By: SunstarTerri

SunstarTerri — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:19:40 +0000

Henri – your Slideshare presentation was excellent. I really appreciate your humour throughout it. I’ve changed a couple things on my dot tel page as a result of it, so thank you!

Edwin – you are right that with the right strategy it seems dot tel pages can rank quite well. I’ll take a look at your videos. Cheers!

By: Jens

Jens — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 17:07:04 +0000

Don’t have doubts about the benefit of TEL’s.

They are out in the market only for a couple of month.

The real success will start when they become mainstream. Because then it will make the communication between people much easier.

And yes, TEL’s look kind of boring. But think about the upcoming features! Wouldn’t it be great to type terridavies.tel into your phone instead of +12505882877?
What is easier to remember?

Best,
Jens

By: Edwin van Rooyen

Edwin van Rooyen — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 10:58:10 +0000

Hi Terry,
Like your post! The .tel extension has several great aspects. Of course you can suggest people to visit your website for your personal details, but by saying ‘just go to terridavies.tel’ you make it extremely easy to them to contact you (if that’s what you want, of course: you can choose to make information accessible for friends only). Your contact information will always be up-to-date i.e. your contacts don’t need to adapt the information they have to your new phone number, new social network, etc. You can find both instructive and pleasant videos via http://about-tel.edje.tel.
You certainly can promote your seo via your domain name, folders and keywords. See for instance Henri Asseily’s recent presentation at http://ow.ly/G9n4. Several .tel domains have a page 1 score on Google.
Kind regards,
Edwin

By: Henri Asseily

Henri Asseily — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 09:20:54 +0000

Hi Terri,
you may want to read my presentation on how to do effective SEO and take control of your brand with your .tel. It’s available as a link on http://henri.tel.