How to push name dialing into the global market?

mikeseaton wrote:Henri's (Chief Strategist & CTO of Telnic) post from Telnic's forum made on 28 March 2011 explains it all:

There is no need whatsoever to remember phone numbers or email addresses or skype ids, or MSN usernames. They're all a single DNS query away, just like IP addresses are a single DNS query away from web server names.

However, for this long term goal to be achieved, mobile phone companies and email client developers and Skype (and all the rest) will have to integrate this .tel lookup in their apps (just like Netscape integrated the A record lookup). For them to feel the value of doing this, first there needs to be a certain critical mass of .tel domains being used in the wild. Therefore there needs to be another orthogonal value proposition that is appealing to a large enough population that the critical mass will be reached.

And that other value proposition is what you see today as being generally how .tel is thought about: a simple, powerful way to publish your own contact information online, under your complete control.

So yeah, we know about the killer app. Trust me. We know. And we're glad you know too. It'll happen. But it's phase 2. Right now we're working on the success of phase 1, and considering the significant interest we see out there, it's going in the right direction pretty quickly.

And there's really no need for us to build dialer applications because:
1- they'll never be integrated by phone manufacturers.
2- for manufacturers to support .tel in their own dialers is trivial, a simple matter of parsing the .tel and doing a DNS lookup. And sample code to do that is already available to them.

Hope this is clear.
H.

mikeseaton wrote:Justin Hayward

Getting a phone manufacturer to embed a domain dialler in their handset is a huge challenge. Have we been talking to companies about it? Sure. Do you know how many layers of people you have to go through, how quickly people join and leave these organisations and how many priorities they have?

Justin Hayward wrote:Getting a phone manufacturer to embed a domain dialler in their handset is a huge challenge. Have we been talking to companies about it? Sure. Do you know how many layers of people you have to go through, how quickly people join and leave these organisations and how many priorities they have?

Telomat wrote:I haven’t seen much marketing in the past about the replacement of phone numbers by domain names. But every business, every phone company, every telephone user and even every child should understand the benefits of dialing a name which is easy to remember instead of a 12-digit phone number randomly composed. It’s hard to believe nobody else is thinking about this.

mikeseaton wrote:It doesn't necessarily have to be a technically pure solution like "Data in the DNS" - it just has to work, be reasonably priced, and actively marketed worldwide to "Joe Public".

There is a real danger this delay in commencing the worldwide marketing necessary to create .tel critical mass could hand "First Mover Advantage" to another organisation !

Tel wrote:

mikeseaton wrote:It doesn't necessarily have to be a technically pure solution like "Data in the DNS" - it just has to work, be reasonably priced, and actively marketed worldwide to "Joe Public".

There is a real danger this delay in commencing the worldwide marketing necessary to create .tel critical mass could hand "First Mover Advantage" to another organisation !

Yes, the danger exists! But honestly would a solution without using the DNS make sense?