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By: James Koole on November 26th, 2008
Posted in: Reseller Resources
Tags: .TEL
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Telnic, the Registry for the new .TEL extension is providing marketing materials that you may wish to use in your efforts to sell .TEL domains to your customers. In addition, they’ve also created a short video presentation about .TEL that you may choose to embed or use on your websites.

The marketing materials are available for download as PDF files in a bunch of different languages. They’ve also provided the source files for all languages (QuarkExpress format for those with the capability to edit Quark files). Here’s the links:

• Multilingual PDF files
• Video (login with the username: Marketing.tel / password: SunriseDec3

As a reminder, our .TEL webinar takes place at 1:00 P.M. ET today (Wednesday). Those unable to attend the live presentation will be able to view an archived version and download the presentations as PDF files. We’ll post that information to the blog later today.

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By: James Koole on November 20th, 2008
Posted in: Events
Tags: .TEL, Webinar
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.TEL Sunrise is just around the corner. We’re now taking Sunrise pre-orders via the RWI as mentioned last week. Also as promised, we have details for you about the exclusive webinar for OpenSRS Resellers that we’ve arranged with Lars Jensen, Global Sales Director, Telnic Limited.

Joining Lars will be Adam Eisner, Product Manager, Domains, OpenSRS. Together they will get you up to speed on .TEL and make sure that you have all the information you need if you are planning to participate in Sunrise and Landrush. At the end of the webinar presentation, there will be a question and answer session for you to ask any questions you might have, and get answers straight from the source.

Prepare and Profit from .TEL

Join us online on Wednesday, November 26th, 2008 at 1:00 P.M. EST (Convert to my time zone).

We’re using GoToWebinar for this online webinar. GoToWebinar is easy to use and will allow you to participate in the webinar in any modern web browser on either Microsoft Windows or Apple OS X.

We hope you will find this webinar valuable.

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By: James Koole on November 14th, 2008
Posted in: OpenSRS Services
Tags: .TEL
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For Resellers with customers looking to secure their .TEL domains during the Sunrise period for registered trademark holders, we are now taking pre-orders via the Reseller Web Interface (RWI).

You’ll see the “.tel Sunrise Early Domain Registration for Registered Trademark Holders” in the Domain Registration Administration section of the RWI as soon as you log in. Submitting a sunrise pre-order is easy, but you will require supporting documentation to prove that the Registrant is a registered trademark holder for the domain being applied for.

Also of note is that we’re working with Telnic to offer an exclusive webinar for OpenSRS Resellers with Lars Jensen, Global Sales Director, Telnic Ltd. to help you better understand .TEL and the opportunity it presents. We’ll have more details about that webinar in the coming days.

In an email we sent to all Resellers on Friday, we provided information on how you can get your own .TEL domain to try out during the Sunrise period free of charge. That includes access to the management interface that gives you the ability to add and change contact information for your .TEL domain and provides you with a way to better understand the product and how to market it to you customers.

Lots more information on .TEL is available from Telnic.org.

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By: James Koole on November 10th, 2008
Posted in: OpenSRS Services
Tags: .TEL
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There’s a very innovative new generic Top-Level Domain (gTLD) on the way called .TEL. OpenSRS will be participating fully in the launch of .TEL beginning with sunrise pre-orders (more on that in the next few days) and culminating with the official start of general availability on March 24th, 2009.

.TEL is quite different from any other domain extension. All the information for a .TEL domain is stored directly within the Domain Name System (DNS). When a user enters a .TEL domain into their browser, mobile phone or any other Internet device, DNS is queried and rather than returning an IP address that maps a website to the domain name, the DNS entry provides the stored data directly, formatted for whatever device is being used.

In many cases, users can then click on a contact method and immediately initiate a connection (including voice calls, SMS, Skype, email…) to the .TEL domain holder.

I could try to explain the concept and how the back-end data management control panel works, but this video of Justin Hayward, Communications Director, and Henri Asseily, CSO/CTO, both of Telnic Ltd. from the 2008 Demo Conference does a far better job:

A list of 10 reasons companies should get their .TEL domain is available as a PDF download. Also included in this document are the requirements for the various stages of the .TEL launch, from Sunrise to landrush and general availability.

As mentioned above, we’ll have more on the .TEL launch and how it will work for OpenSRS Resellers in the next few days.