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    How the future of .tel could look like!

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    How the future of .tel could look like! Empty How the future of .tel could look like!

    Post by Telnic 2015-01-02, 4:43 am

    Jens08-03-2011 12:58 AM



    How the future of .tel could look like!
     
    Obsolescent

    dob08-03-2011 01:54 PM



    Variant: redirect only www

    telrific08-03-2011 02:01 PM



    Quote:


    Originally Posted by Jens (Post 16597)
    The big advantages would be:
    1.) The functionality of .tel domains would continue to work like today.
    2.) The .tel owner is not restricted to any web appearance limitations.
    3.) The redirect is only optional.
    4.) Telnic doesn't need to spend a lot of development in the web appearance of .tel domains anymore, because the .tel owner can make it look like he wants anyway.
    5.) The web appearance under the .com webpage will be displayed under the address of the .tel domain in the address bar of the web browser. Everybody will be amazed you can build impressive content with a .tel without realizing in the first step the content comes from a .com.

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    Great ideas, in fact, there have been several initiatives over the past 2 years to do this, in pieces, by others.

    - .tel forwarding was produced by someone for .tel domains.

    - using the data in an html "skin" was also done by several.

    - Telnic encourages the data used by webmasters >>> link

    It seems that Telnic is happy to allow "variations" by the market, but is not willing
    to implement permanent changes that alter the "core" decisions unless critical.

    This of course is the question, what is "critical" ?

    :)[/size]

    Mark Kolb (Kprobe)08-03-2011 02:41 PM



    IMO, the only value of a .tel redirect would be to target a sepcific geographic subdomain. So if you are in Rockville and need a plumber you'd end up at rockville.md.plumbers.tel or rockville.ontario.plumbers.tel. That would be a geo-aware, smart use of redirect, otherwise, don't see the value of confusing visitors.

    Mark

    Mark Kolb (Kprobe)08-03-2011 03:15 PM



    Quote:


    Originally Posted by Jens (Post 16624)
    Don't be offended, but what looks more professional: a highly designed .com or a .tel built with its control panel? What most domain owners would prefer to show to their visitors?

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    Then why get a .tel in the first place? Just get a .com etc.

    Mark[/size]

    dob08-03-2011 03:15 PM



    Quote:


    Originally Posted by Jens (Post 16618)
    Sorry, I don't know what you mean.

    Perhaps this:

    1.) If you type myname.tel into the browser, you go to myname.tel.
    2.) If you type www.myname.tel into the browser, you go to myname.com (as defined in the control panel).

    If this is the case, I guess people will become confused what will be the result and start wondering why the web appearance is different every time they change the input.

    Btw in a few years from now, nobody will type www.myname.com or www.myname.tel anymore, because www. will become obsolete.
    Everybody will use myname.com or myname.tel without www.!

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    Yes, but this is my problem.[/size]

    dottel.net08-03-2011 03:34 PM



    Quote:


    Originally Posted by Jens (Post 16627)
    Because .tel has several advantages, beside others especially these:

    • Name dialing (instead of numbers)
    • Social networking on domain base
    • Replacing your personal address book with your contacts from Telfriends



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    biggest advantage i've found is seo... tels are ranking fairly well and bringing in steady traffic.[/size]

    mikeseaton08-03-2011 04:22 PM



    Hi Jens,

    For your idea to work you would need to ensure that when redirected to a standard web page, with all the design niceties that could offer, there was a mechanism to check whether the browser was operating on a smartphone or a computer (laptop, desktop, tablet).

    Having established this (the process itself is not a simple check of a setting but involves checking the page's server variables for certain key words associated with a smartphone) you would then need to route the visitor to one of two web pages, one written for smartphones and the other written for computers.

    If you didn't do this, you would end up attempting to display a full web page on a smartphone, which is a totally unfriendly user experience.

    This of course assumes that two versions of the web page has been writtten by the .tel owner in the first place!

    Far better to let them go to the Telnic .tel page as at the moment, with Telnic having taken care of the smartphone detection logic and the subsequent display of either the smartphone proxy page or the computer proxy page.

    IMO the best bet if you are unhappy with the current Telnic proxy page is to wait and assess the new templates which Telnic are committed to release following the design competition.

    Mike Seaton

    telrific08-03-2011 05:10 PM



    Quote:


    Originally Posted by Jens (Post 16629)
    Yes, .tel has its right to exist. What is missing is its power of persuasion for common people! As soon they see a .tel webpage on a computer or a dummy phone, they run away!

    In comparison: a .tel domain looks very nice on an iPhone! The question is how it is possible to make a .tel look good on a computer, too!
    Does anybody have ideas for that?

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    This was of course the idea behind the big "design for a new decade" contest that produced the 3 winners that Telnic is supposedly working on implementing.

    Patience or a "skin" of your own I guess ???

    :o[/size]
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