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New
Site Devoted Entirely to .Tel Domain Owners Goes Live
Fans
of the .tel extensionthat
was introduced in March 2009 got a new
resource to draw on today when the TelMasters.com
website went live. The site was founded by Mark
Kolb and Scott Smith, two early
adopter .tel evangelists who saw a need for an exclusive .tel "domain
boutique" to
address the unique requirements of the .tel community. As most of you know, .tel
domains have different characteristics than
other domains, one of the most notable being
that all .tel pages have to be hosted on the
registry's servers and there are restrictions on
the kinds of content they can contain.
Smith
said, "Our
goal is simple - to help expand brand notoriety
and to enable greater use and more creative
ways to exploit .tel worldwide. Since March
24, 2009, over 275,000 .tel domains have
been registered by individuals and businesses
looking to create new channels of
of
communications and/or to enhance and broaden the
distribution of their respective brands. During
that same time there has been an explosion of trial
and error activity by .tel owners attempting
to find better and faster ways to add content
to their domain properties and to monetize
those assets.”
The
founders said TelMasters is offering new .tel
registration services, aftermarket .tel sales and
leasing, news, updates and is especially pleased
to introduce “Mark’s
Tools” - tools designed exclusively to
help manage and maintain .tel domains. Traffic
counters, bulk up loaders, guest books, color and
logo managers and quick updates are just a few of
the current offerings that are free for
TelMasters members.
Kolb
said, “We’ve been .tel ambassadors since
before the Sunrise period in late 2008. We
maintain and manage a portfolio of over 800
.tel domains and have extensive experience in
building tools and .tel sites for our own account
and for our growing list of satisfied clients.
We’ve established strong relationships with many
international .tel domain owners with portfolios
ranging from a few domains to those with several
thousand domains. Those associations will continue
to help guide us in the types of new tools we
build and the features we incorporate into
TelMasters.”
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