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Re: Jonathan Jensen on Thursday – .tel, the first live global directory service

.tel Domains — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 06:45:36 -0000

i have read somewhere that .tel Domain Aims to be 'Phonebook for the Net & that The owners of .tel domains will not be able to upload and maintain web pages, as they can for other top-level domains. they will only be able to store contact details like names, telephone numbers, web and email addresses is that true?

Re: Jonathan Jensen on Thursday – .tel, the first live global directory service

rickyc — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 13:20:25 -0000

I signed up to their trial and have to say I am impressed http://rickychotai.vip.tel/ is my page

Re: Jonathan Jensen on Thursday – .tel, the first live global directory service

TerenceEden — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 12:39:38 -0000

I'm obviously missing something.

It's all hosted at telnic. So if they get hit by a DDoS or hacked - everyone's contact details are vulnerable. If they go out of business - the same.

I could write a scrap of PHP or ASP which anyone could host on their website - where does their business model go? A _facebook_ app could provide the same functionality.

Don't get me wrong - that it updates via DNS is a nice idea. But given the time it takes for DNS updates to propagate around the world, what's the advantage compared to just sticking the details up on your site?

Ultimately - what, in a dozen words, makes this better than me sticking a VCARD or hCard on my website?

T
(Not having a go - just genuinely confuzzeled)

Re: Jonathan Jensen on Thursday – .tel, the first live global directory service

sevendotzero — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 12:05:55 -0000

Just come across this video of a presentation about .tel

http://rikkles.blogspot.com/2008/09/demo-confer...

Re: Jonathan Jensen on Thursday – .tel, the first live global directory service

sevendotzero — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 10:05:52 -0000

The point here is that .tel is independent of any other service or hosting arrangement. Have a look at http://www.telnic.org/ as there's a lot more detail than I could cover. And yes, if you're technically proficient, there's lots of clever stuff you could do but .tel creates a consistent, simple standard.

Re: Jonathan Jensen on Thursday – .tel, the first live global directory service

TerenceEden — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 09:45:54 -0000

I still don't get it.

I can set up a page like that - see http://shkspr.mobi/about.php - which has a secret URL / password to show different contact information to each person. Or, even better, you can connect to me at http://zyb.com/terenceeden and instantly know when I change my details.

Why should I pay .tel for yet another domain when I could make tel.example.com or example.com/tel ?

And what happens when my neighbour - who is also called Jonathan Jensen - wants a .tel? He either needs a hotmail-esque jon-jensen-1944.tel or chain multiple subdomains - j.onanthan.jen.sen.tel.

I think the basic idea of a unified contact manager - like zyb.com* - is a good idea. I just don't see why it needs to be attached to a (paid-for) domain.

T
*Owned by my corporate overlord, Vodafone.