by TELwax 2014-01-07, 6:23 pm
Hoho,
I understand from @gotel efforts, there might have been some twix over the word "directory" and we are not so far finally.
Thanks to @gotel .
And Good news for 2014 !!!
I meant directory as directory feature INSIDE the .TEL , allowing access to subdirectories, is an original genuine feature as to initially pitched at ICANN .
The DIRECTORY you are talking about I guess, is the GLOBAL DIRECTORY, which is the "SHOULD BE" Searchable ,Organised , Easy to Access and to Retrieve Database of all .TEL , which results are rendered by priority ranking of "main page" of .TEL over "sub pages" of any given .TEL , with other nice parameters settings as geolocation, language, type of contact, topics, etc possibly in a multi row approach...
However this is not some internal feature of a TEL, it is (has to be) a
bundled backf office service rendered by TELnic and/or Telnames to enhance value of TELs.
Agreed that the fail of this external GLOBAL DIRECTORY from TELnic is an obvious fact so far.
However the legitimate ability of building subdirectories of contacts within a .TEL is a genuine initial feature and can never interfere within the results and capability of TELPages, therefore never can it be blamed for that.
To be honest, possibly the insane rendering of TELpages since early times has been possilby rolled along for years so far because of the too numerous .TEL that were empty since early years (still today, many of them ) .
Therefore again not any responsability beared from the few .TELs which were populated with multiple related subdirectories
(and subdirectories are still easy to discard when rendering search results, at least more easy than to reckon/justify that many .TEL are empty ).
The number of TLN should have then pushed things further for a more sophisticated telpages engine, rewarding content (single page or multiple page, without showing at same level subpages)
More surprising finally, and still very difficult to understand (at least for me) , is why TELnames do not offer a much better TELnamespages version for TELnames single page TELs to save existing TLN users , promote them, and urge them to stay aboard, instead of pushing them to third party, YP and Hibu likes , that do not care about them.