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TelFeeder.com  Populates .Tel Domain Names
System makes it easier to populate multiple .tel domain names. A new service called TelFeeder.com has launched, helping owners of multiple .tel domain names quickly upload data. .Tel domain name owners download a simple XML file and open it in Microsoft Excel. Fill in the details you want to populate your Tel domain with, save the file. Then upload to the site.

SEO for your TEL domain:

tweet2.tel is providing a service which helps you to improve your .tel domain names SEO.

Tel domain content refreshing service for rapid search engine indexing. Additional SEO for your TEL domain.
Use the power of Twitter to climb your domain up the search rankings. Improve your search engine rankings by adding fresh daily content to your TEL domain.

This Tweet to TEL ™ service is currently operating for free through the end of July and is limited to 1,000 TEL domains. The service automatically refreshes specific keyword content related to your domain. Once per day, fresh tweets of up to 255 characters will appear automatically in your folder.

Dot-Tel Road MapTelnic published a road map for .tel domains, Many enhancements and applications for .tel will be released soon, these applications will encouraging  more and more  people to join the dot-tel world. This is really big step for dottel domain names future great success .

1. Multi-lingual control panel :

.tel can be Edit and manage in many languages, tel is a top level domain, this will let the .tel users all over the world to manage their dottel domains in their own languages and increase the worldwide presence of .tels.

2. Folder management :

Rename folders and edit the link text in any language, make the link private or published in a specific profile, or delete the link altogether. Sub-domains of .tel are folders. Currently, after a folder is created, it is can not be renamed, If you want to change the folder’s name, you have to recreated a new one with new name and delete the old one, This is inconvenient when you want change the name, especially, you already add many contacts info and created subfolders under this subfolder. Nice thing is that you will be able to make the link private or public at your will.

3. .tel email :
you can set up email for your .tels, like info@thehotel.tel , this is an essential feature.
What is Dot-tel about, about communication &contact, email is one of the most important and mostly used contact tool in now days, now we will have it in near future.

4. Bulk updates :

Update multiple contacts at once, move all your .tel contents into another domain or sub-domain.

5. Custom .tel heading :

Customize the text that displays as the heading of your .tel web page instead of your domain name. You can enter text in any language and use special characters. At present, the heading is fixed which is your dottel domain name, you can not change it. for example, the heading for thehotel.tel is fixed to thehotel, this is also very important in terms of SEO (Search Engine Optimization)

6. Click-to-communicate :

Click a click-to-call weblink to your VoIP/Internet telephone number, VoIP is fast moving technology and widely used now, like Skype, thousands people are using Skype, and other web VoIP phone etc, This makes it very easy to communicate with VoIP.

7. Dynamic data:

Create a status message or set your time zone to show when and how you are  accessible.

8. New contact types :

Post usernames and gaming handles in your .tel domain.

9. Extended keywords :

Add longer keywords, up to 2000 characters long. Now you can only put very limited keywords, this is another good thing for SEO and form .tel to compete with thousands of websites with other extensions.

10. Traffic statistics :

See how many visits your .tel has via the web.  This is an essential help for moneytizing doe-tel site. Because there is no something like Google Adsense yet for .tel, it is little  difficult to moneytize dot-tels. But you can provide some kind services with .tel, like directory for companies to list their sites with a fee charge. But first thing they will ask how many visitors/hits to your .tel site? With this statistics, you have a base to negotiate the list fees and convince the companies to list on your .Tel site.  I have many .COM/Net websites on which I am using a web traffic counter (ewebcounter.com : which is very good one and you can use it free within certain ltraffic volume), from which I can see hoe many unique visitor/returned visitor, how many hits, what are the key words in search engine let these visitors to the sites, what is referrals, from which IP countries visitor are coming, etc. This is also very important for your SEO, you keep optimizing your site and you can check what is the SEO results from these statistics.

11. TelPages search :

Telpages :Browse .tel results using the official search engine, optimized for indexing .tel domains.

Because Dot-tel is very special comparing with other extensions, like it is not a “Web site”, It stores data in DNS etc, Dot-tel needs a special search engine, Telpages will provide a this search engine service for .tel. There are already several .tel only search engine live, like jepaa.com which is independently developed by a Switzerland company (Movetec GmbH), Jepaa has many nice features , besides you can search .tel domains, you can also search locations/MAPS in one place, but its search and rank algorithm still need to be improved. There are also some dot-tel search engines using Google Custom Search Engine (CSE), like Telsaurus.com , Telref.com , Telopedia.com , Telrific.com , dottelfinder.com , one special feature of dottelfinder.com is that you can search dot-tel sites and dot-tel  related web sites of other extensions in one place. (search for .tel-related info into hand-picked Web sites), Let’s see how good the official .tel search engine telpages will be. I wish Telpages will come out something like Google Adwords and Adsense for .Tel to moneytize .tel sites.

12. Multi-lingual TelFriends :

Manage your friend list in your own language.

Telnic is planning to realease some software for dot-tel: (.tel Software)

(a) Windows Mobile® application :
Save .tel data into your contacts, and manage your .tel using a PocketPC® or Smartphone.

(b) Symbian® application :

   Get the power of .tel on your S60/9.x mobile.

(c)Android application :

   Add .tel functionality to your Google® phone.

(d)Contact Us tool  :

   Easily embed live .tel contact data into a .com website.

Conclusion :

Above feature enhancement/applications/software for dot-tel by Telnic will give big boost for current .tel users and will also attract more and more people join the dot-tel world. In the mean time, many thisrd partis are also developing new applications/software for .tels. Personally, I strongly believe  .tel will have a bright future and great success. So this is Road To Success

Some US Presidents have their .tel domain names registered.
It is interesting Bush, Barack and Clinton's dottel are listed on Dottel Directory for sale……

Bush.tel

clinton.tel

Dotttel keywords domain name : singular or plural ?

There are still many keywords .tel domain names available , some time we are not sure to choose singular or plural word.

Singular keyword should refer a specific object, plural should refer to broad objects.

I set up a site : thehotel.tel, one .tel lover give the opinion as” I think it is a very poor choice .
The hotel refers to one specific hotel only”

I have both thehotel.tel and thehotels.tel,the reason why I choose thehotel.tel over thehotels.tel is below:

(1.)when people search a term in search engine (like google), singular word should refer to a specific thing, not broad, for example, if search “the car”, it doesn’t necessarily mean to search a specific car, if they search specific car, they may search as “Car Toyota Camry”

(2)Important thing is that how many people search the keywords/term, when people search hotel, they should just search keywords “hotel” or “hotels”, but there are many people search “the hotel”, I do not why, but they do: Google search in March statistics for “the hotel” and “the hotels”as below:

“The Hotels ” broad search 1,830,000 times, “The Hotel” broad search 3350000 times
“The Hotels ” exact search 320 times, “The Hotel” exact search 9900 times

This means from March googol search statistics , more people search “the hotel” than “the hotels” in both broad and exact search.

In addition, in Google , if you do exact search “the hotel” and “the hotels” (put keywords “ ” will give you exact search results) :
“The Hotels” got 5,020,000 results , but “the hotel” got 73,600,000 results.

I am not sure if I am right in this case to choose “thehotel.tel” over “thehotels.tel”

Make money by providing services :
Like other domain extensions, you can use .tel in many possible ways:

Please check this site :http://cancel.tel , this site provides information for canceling your credit card if you lost it or got it stolen.
It is very convenient, you do not need to remember those phone numbers of the bank or credit card companies (at least I can not remember those numbers, but I can easily remember cancel.tel). You can get the information you need immediately from anywhere in the world even from a mobile phone.

So there are many potential way to make money with your .tels

“Web Counter” for .Tel domains

My Suggestion to Telnic.

People buy .Tel to store their contacts info online in a easy way, but some people buy .Tel to drive some traffic to their other websites (especially with those generic name key words .tel domains). The problem is : there is now way at this time to check how many people visited my dot tel domains. Is there any way, your .TEL hosting can provide some kind .tel domain “web counter”, so people can at least know how many visitors visited their .tel sites? even very simple “web counter” is OK , but if you can do statistics of “Visitors”,” from which search engine this visitor came from” ,”"from which keywords” etc. even better.

A single point of contact for all your communications. .tel provides a digital ID that is a brand. .tel makes my company brand and contact directly accessible. .tel complements my existing website …

Let’s Tel…

Some say that it is the biggest innovation in the domain name segment since the initial dot com release, since the new DOT Tel is available for public to register, thousands of people and companies are rushing to register their .TEL for individual and business , even big giant like Google, Cisco also register their TELs.

It seems there is a potential opportunity of great success for .TEL. In terms of a easy way of communication, Dot-tel is innovative and simple, you do not need to get a web host , you do not need to build and maintain a website, because .TEL is using DSN to store all data which is simple and fast, even though almost all web hosts providing various ways which let people to build a site much easier and faster than before, but it is still need lots of efforts and knowledge  to build a website, but with Dot-tel, It is so simple, I think there should be no problem even for my grandma to set her .TEL site.

For a businessman, it is always a problem to maintain all those contact info of all customers. Same as for individuals to maintain the contacts of family, friends: home phone, work phone, cell phone, FAX, email etc, and those info are keep changing, now with DOT TEL, just need to maintain a simple domain name, You just need to give yourname.tel, all info are there, and you can update it in minutes on the fly.., I think maybe in the very near future, no one will ask what is your phone number, what is your email, just ask what is your TEL. So let’s tel now.