.tel Stories

Chagford.tel – My name is Roy Gavin, and I have nineteen geographic .tel sites under development in Devon and Cornwall (UK). I think that chagford.tel is a good example of how a .tel site can be constructed. When developing it, I wanted to prove to myself that it is possible to build a meaningful site, capable of generating a modest income, that can be maintained manually. Most importantly, my site tells people it is optimised for mobile communication.
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Nickolay.tel – My name is Nikolay, I'm from Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, and have a workshop for industrial pipes. I keep the title of my .tel page as "nickolay.tel" as this is my official brand. I promote it every possible way because advertising nickolay.tel helps promote my business. I use my .tel page in all advertising materials, as the company name on official papers, on business cards and stationery, as well as on product stickers, transport and employees' uniforms. Nickolay.tel makes it simpler to stay in touch with existing clients and find new ones.
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Vanderhorst.tel – I'm Christopher R.Vanderhorst and my career has seen and continues to see many facets of technology. I now have over 400 .tel domains registered, all during the Landrush and General Availability periods. I intend to renew, develop, and maintain them all as useful support for individuals and businesses everywhere. TelPages and .tel being the future of all starting points virtually guarantees that .tel has the ability to far surpass all other TLDs in value.
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ProjectFortyTwo.tel – We’re Chris and Martine Middleton, based in Nottingham. Being discoverable on the internet and contactable is absolutely vital for us. We’re self-employed moving between contract and consultancy roles, and can be anywhere at any time. projectfortytwo.tel and projectfortytwo.com are the shop windows for what we do – they let people know what we offer and provide a choice of ways to contact us wherever we are.
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VermetteLaw.tel –  My name is Nathaly Vermette, I’m from Montreal in Canada, and I’m an attorney practicing in intellectual property law. Being discoverable on the internet, or contactable by my clients, is excessively important. Doing intellectual property technology-based work, clients usually prefer to use the web, to contact each other, and their help. Therefore for me it is essential that I be contactable.

CakeInABox.tel –  My name is Steven Riley and I'm the owner of a company called Cake in a Box. We're based in Glasgow in Scotland and we specialize in wedding cakes, birthday cakes and all types of celebration cakes. Our company has been running since February 2009. We moved here from a previous, smaller bakery. This is a family business and we have four professional staff consisting of myself, my sister and my mother and father.

CheapFlights.tel – I'm Jemima Garthwaite, part of search marketing team at Cheapflights.co.uk, and I also look after social media activity in the UK. It involves quite a mixture of creative and technical skills and keeps me very busy! I recently set up Cheapflights' .tel page, but also have a personal page too. Cheapflights is a flights comparison website founded in the UK over 14 years ago, now with eight active websites across Europe, North America and Oceania.

Mazs.tel – My name is Mario Gregoriou, proprietor of Mazs food bar which operates from Fitness First Gymnasium in Manchester England.

My clientele ranges from the serious bodybuilders to the general public. I provide my customers with a healthy and tasty alternative to the countless fast-food and sandwich shops in the area.

2andFro.tel –  Steve Collins, the owner of 2andFro Taxis

We've been established since 2005. We're a small company with only six drivers. We're in the heart of the Cotswolds, we've got great pubs with great food, we've got the lakes and some really beautiful gardens to come and see. We cover the local area and long-distance - Heathrow, any airport, train station or sea port.

GeorgeMoen.tel – George Moen: My Success is all because of the network I built. So what do I do about it? Or, Dot Tel (.tel): Why I bought www.georgemoen.tel and why you will get yours!

Just when you think nothing new could come along to grab your interest, .tel comes along. I have to admit I did not quite get it at first, but within a few days of my first introduction, I had one of the rare A-Hah moments.

FoundItAtLast.tel – We run the "Found it At Last" bookshop, in the middle of nowhere near Kelso. Kelso is situated on the river Tweed which is in the Scottish Borders – it's used very much for fishing. And we are situated near Forth Castle, which is The Duke of Roxborough's home. We have lots of different people coming in to the shop, especially those from organized book clubs. They come in for certain books and also tell their members about the shop and how good it is. Word of mouth is how advertising is working for us for the moment.

Scott Smith is president of TelCartel, a .tel reseller, and established domain investor. Based in Canada, Scott has recently helped organize the first TelCamp to be held in Toronto and, along with Mark Kolb and Freaky Steve, created the concept and realization of telcamp.tel, the management tool for TelCamp organization, registration and feedback.

PropertiesByAlexis.tel My name is Alexis Palkowski, and I sell real estate with style within the Lower Mainland, specifically on the north shore and Shaughnessy/Point Grey area. [...] I heard about .tel at a networking function a few weeks ago. A lady had forgotten her business card, but told me she had a .tel address. She thought it was very beneficial for her business, and I thought, why not, I definitely want one.

My name is Steve and I am based in Toronto, Canada. In a past life I was the creator of a streaming media authoring tool that made its debut at MacWorld, San Francisco in 2000. [...] I have been a classroom training instructor for Internet based courses and have taught at the university level for interactive television. From there I have developed many web and desktop software technologies. My perspective on .tel appears to be unique and I am now combining my skills to claim a major stake in the world of .tel.

BernardGiraudeau.tel –  Bernard Giraudeau, actor, writer and director has recently got his .tel. He speaks about it with François Amigorena from ToutPointTel, the French-speaking .tel website. Interview in French plus English translation available.

watershed.tel Oliver Humpage, Watershed's ICT Co-ordinator explains how Watershed.tel works. This .tel is a strong example of how a .tel domain can be used for near real-time communication in a simple-to- access format. Bristol-based Watershed Media Centre has 3 cinema screens, several events spaces and a Café/Bar, and has lots of events both film and not film.

bigcity.tel Oleg Baskakov is a Java Developer living in Moscow, Russia. He has rich experience in a wide range of software development projects, and is currently working for premier Russian digital agency Actis Wunderman. However, Oleg is also the person behind bigcity.tel, an innovative .tel domain that automatically updates weather and activity information about big cities around the world.

cancel.tel Samuël Voet, internet entrepreneur from Belgium is the creator and owner of cancel.tel, a free but invaluable service for people who have to cancel their credit cards. Extremely accessible from a simple word over mobile devices, cancel.tel enables people to quickly navigate to the right credit card company and click to communicate with them - a fantastically simple solution to an emotionally-charged action no one likes to perform.

overvoice.tel Anthony Richardson is one of the UK's leading commercial voiceover artists. After leaving school at 17, he trained as a sound technician at The Royal National Theatre in London, and on a few occasions was asked to do small vocal parts for sound effects in the various shows that were "in rep" at the time. Having always been interested in acting and recording so it seemed like a logical step, to combine the two, and become a voiceover. He is the proud (and profitable) owner of overvoice.tel as well as a Qualified Google Advertising Professional.

amandabeard.tel Model and Olympic Gold medal winning swimmer Amanda Beard is also a photographer, sports presenter and spokeswoman for several animal rights groups. Beard made her first Olympic appearance at the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games at the age of 14 and since then has captured a total of seven medals at four Olympic Games. Amanda says: "I always like to stay in touch and be accessible to my family and friends. Being on the road and splitting time between two homes, I need to be able to easily change my contact info and .tel makes it easy for me to point people in the right direction."

isdecisions.tel IT veteran François Amigorena is no stranger to technology, having worked in the business for twenty-six years. With experience in companies such as IBM, Société Générale and now as CEO of IS Decisions, a software company specializing in security and change management solutions, he has a renewed excitement for technology and new sense of adventure with the innovative and simple .tel. He is the founder of TourPointTel, the French-speaking .tel community website.

lynnefranks.tel Lynne Franks, Businesswoman, Author and Founder of the SEED Network is no stranger to understanding what it takes to be discovered. Starting her own PR agency at her kitchen table at the age of 21, she then went on to found London Fashion Week, created the London event 'What Women Want' in 1995, and subsequently travelled the world working with multinational corporations, civil servants, bureaucrats and grassroots organizations to draw attention to the changing position of women in society.