{"id":7367,"date":"2008-10-27T10:35:07","date_gmt":"2008-10-27T10:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/tel_gaining_momentum.html"},"modified":"2008-10-27T10:35:07","modified_gmt":"2008-10-27T10:35:07","slug":"tel-gaining-momentum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/tel-gaining-momentum.html","title":{"rendered":".tel Gaining Momentum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over 100 registrars will <a href=\"http:\/\/internetcommunications.tmcnet.com\/topics\/broadband-mobile\/articles\/43920-tel-doma-booked-100-registrars.htm\">sell<\/a> the .tel domain name according to Telnic Limited. While it is too soon to know how successful .tel will be as a top level domain name, I am optimistic that it will make communicating easier.<\/p>\n<p>Telnic unveiled the technology that powers .tel service at DEMOfall in San Diego in September. Since then, the domain name has been dubbed as &#8220;game-changing&#8221;, &#8220;the white pages killer&#8221; and &#8220;the <!--ZZZLinkBegZZZ-->Google<!--ZZZLinkEndZZZ--> of online address books&#8221;. A number of brand owners have already started the documentation process to apply for their trademarks with the registrars. The applications for trademarks will be accepted starting December 3rd 2008.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2008\/09\/08\/demofall-08-telnic-figures-shows-how-tel-domains-can-communicate-without-web-sites\/\"><br \/>According to VentureBeat<\/a>, the service offers a secure way to allow you to navigate the conact information of people you want to track. In addition, the service should allow a simple way to for you to display contacts who are located near you.<\/p>\n<p>I am looking forward to seeing what sort of traction the new domain gets and I also wonder if service providers will need to push us to get us to adopt our own .tel names. Whenever you have a change in technology as grand as this, we always have a lag in uptake as it takes time for people to geet comfortable with doing something new.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over 100 registrars will sell the .tel domain name according to Telnic Limited. While it is too soon to know how successful .tel will be as a top level domain name, I am optimistic that it will make communicating easier. Telnic unveiled the technology that powers .tel service at DEMOfall in San Diego in September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[158,168,178,170,171,180,172,1,160,163,199,186,1676,118,174,190,204,191,175],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7367"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}