Company profile Telnic

Telnic is a registry operator for the communications-focused .tel top level domain (TLD). Launched to the general public on March 24th 2009, it has since registered over 275,000 .tel names. It was subsequently nominated for both a World Technology Network Award and won an InfoCommerce Group Model of Excellence 2009 Award as well as Best Small IT Supplier of the Year from the inaugural UK IT Industry Award.

Telnic is pioneering the creation of a new publishing and discovery platform, by combining an innovative use of existing internet infrastructure with a new purpose for the domain name system. As a result, .tel delivers a global, live contacts directory for individuals and businesses, accessible from any device, bypassing the need for websites. .tel owners can take control of how people interact with them, under a domain that they own, and .tel users can discover contact information quickly, easily and cheaply.

Milestones

Telnic added Ian Bowen-Morris as CMO. (7/6/10)
Posted 7/6/10 at 10:08am

Telnic added Justin Hayward as Communications & Business Development Director.
Posted 7/30/08 at 7:59am

Telnic added Henri Asseily as Chief Strategist.
Posted 7/30/08 at 7:59am

Telnic added Khashayar Mahdavi as CEO.
Posted 7/30/08 at 7:59am

Telnic received $35M in Venture Round funding. (7/23/08)
Posted 12/3/08 at 4:18pm via namebay.com

Telnic — Telnic wins Best SME IT Supplier of the Year from UK IT Industry Awards 2009 (11/12/09) 2
Posted 1/6/10 at 4:04am via co.uk

Telnic — TelAds advertising platform launched by Telnic Limited to store and display sponsored weblinks, sponsored telephone numbers and related content on their .tel domains to both monetize and enhance the discovery of them through search engines (9/22/09) 3
Posted 11/6/09 at 6:14am via telnic.org

Telnic — Telnic announces backup and restore for .tel domains using new functionality built in to the web control panel. This additional functionality is again in direct response to feedback from the .tel community. (10/28/09) 4
Posted 11/6/09 at 6:08am via telnic.org

Telnic — Telnic wins InfoCommerce Group Models of Excellence 2009 Award (10/29/09) 5
Posted 11/6/09 at 6:00am via telnic.org

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The sad thing being and I even told them this, the awarding body that thought .tel was 'cool' didn't even buy their .tel brand name, if they don't buy I don't consider it an award for telnic, it's like saying steven spielbergs films are awesome and worthy of an award and putting his/their name in the voting pot but not actually having your own (on DVD/.tel) or actually using one to really understand the benefits in the future.

In context? if you award some one of something an award because you think they're a 'cool vendor' yet don't see the need to invest in your own brand name, then I consider it a failure not of telnics but of the awarding body, which brings the awarding body into disrepute for incompetence and makes all their awards invalid as a guide for the reputation of any product and or the health of the .tel domain.