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Here is a list of useful dot tel tools and resources :

1) .tel Search Engines

(A) Jepaa.com
Jeppa.com is the first search engine which only shows dottel websites. Using keywords and location, you can find TEL-specific Web pages in a radius search. It is mobile device freindly with many great features.

(B) Dottelfinder.com

Dottel Fineder is a Google Custom Search Engine (Google CSE), you can search  Dot tel websites and also dottel realated websites with non-dottel extensions, it also has a .tel directory, dottel news and dottel “Tweets”.

(C) telopedia and TelRef
These two are .tel only Google Custom Search Engines.

2) useful dottel services and tools

(A) telfeeder
With this service, your .tel domain name contact can be uploaded using Excel files,Manage all your Tel domains using just Excel!

(B) glittel
With it you can customize skins for .tels,The default .tel proxy page is terribly unattractive and doesn’t match the vast majority of web page designs out there. We have created Glittel.com to offer you the option of making your .tel contact cards look good for use in your web pages and other places where the regular .tel proxy page is just not suitable.

(C) tweet2
adding fresh daily content to improve search engine rankings of your dot tel domain names.

(D) telsap
the First Stats Log Analyzer Made Specifically For .tel Domains, A FREE .tel stats analyzer tool to analyze your .tel stats data…Analyze visitors, domains and referrers! (Web co)

(E) widgets.tel
large number of collections of tools and services

(F) fromtel
.Tel URL Shortening and URL Redirecting for .Tel Domains

(G) nametag
business cards for .tel owners,Create, print or display a .TEL business card

(H)TEL-MACHINE
* .tel Domain Visitor statistics analysis public example
* automatic Twitter posts on .tel pages
* copying and migration of content between .tel pages
* backup and restore for .tel pages
* managing several domains under one account
* direct login to telHosting

(I)  populate.tel
bulk upload using a simple text file which can be reused for updates,and another for quick updates of header and keywords, including custom fields.

3) Dot tel Directory and List

dotteldirectory.net :   A good .tel directory , with rating, search etc. you can list your .tel domain names for free .
promoting.tel : dottel resource directory.

4) Dot-tel Blogs

Dottel.org
Dottelforum.net
tel-blog.de (German)
Henri Asseily official blog

With the new design, you will be able to customize your .tel by choosing a colour scheme from a selection of templates and adding a link to your photo or logo. You can have a different graphic in every folder. For large .tel resources, the search function will also be useful, and you’ll be able to hide the “All .tels” search mode so that visitors won’t be allowed to go to other .tel resources from your page. Finally, the custom icons for popular online services will be added automatically when your .tel page is loaded. With these features and easy advertising via Google Ads, you will create a truly personalized online presence on your .tel!

Telnic will introduce Google AdSense for .tel pages to enable .tel owners to easily generate additional revenue from their domains. The ability to store AdSense publisher credentials via the control panel is to be introduced before the end of March, 2010.

Telnic has provided to the .tel community a Beta version of TelPages, a global .tel search directory. When released, this search will have a new design and more exciting features

In its current version, TelPages searches through all active .tel domains, can sort them into individuals and businesses, and perform advanced searches for Who, What and Where.

Building a .tel directory

You can do so much with a .tel name, including a new directory of anything from local hotels to eco-friendly energy producers. We hope that these examples will inspire you, and the questions help to form your strategy when building your own directory-style .tel project.
With near-instant updates, a simple control panel and powerful system interfaces, it’s easy to create useful content that will be mobile-friendly, indexed and ranked by search engines, and available from any device. And whatever you do, remember that quality content matters.

1.Bigcity.tel
Real Time whether updates for major cities in the world. Automatic updates from Yahoo Weather feeds.

2. yelo.tel

Directory of public transport, mobile addition to main site

3. Europeferries.tel
Combo with European ferries, user-oriented destination directories, link to alphabetic ferry companies directory

4. dialaroom.tel
UK hotel directory : Web based listings with simple online form basic paid listing

5.murman.tel

City directory for 300,000, 200 paid listing, active promotion on TV and local media

Best Dottel Directories

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Best Directory: Maville.tel

Best Directory: Maville.telRichard Desjardins aims to replace the paperback directories for Montreal suburbs with a collection of 31 online .tel-based directories under one roof: MaVille.tel.

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Best Personal .tel: Pavlenko.tel

Gennadiy Pavlenko, specialist in psychology from Russia, provides podcasts and online training courses on a variety of subjects. Having a developed online presence is essential for him, and a .tel is an important business card that works well on mobiles and computers wherever you are.

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Best Independent Project: Vandenborre.tel

hristophe Keppens, web designer and IT professional from Belgium, has come up with an innovative use of .tel-to build his house!

Yellowtel : A Directory Building Service that
Works with Many Domain-types

Each yellowtel directory is populated with a niche-oriented list of businesses and is monetized through pay-per-action (PPA) advertising, which we provide. Yellowtel directories are similar to internet Yellow Pages, except they are built on the platform of the .tel domain.

The Kelsey Group forecasts U.S. mobile search advertising revenues to grow from $39 million in 2008 to $2.3 billion by 2013, a compound annual growth rate of 125.6 percent. Since yellowtel directories are built on the mobile-friendly .tel platform, they are well positioned to take advantage of this growing sector.

Ad Conversion Technology Enables 3rd party click ads

The dot tel does not support anchor text or URL masking and thus it is impossible to build custom text links directly to advertiser sites. Our simple, yet unique Ad Conversion technology allows you to build or take advantage of prewritten text ads, converting them into hyperlinks and then forwarding the user on to the actual website URL. This Ad Conversion Technology enables you to host third-party click advertising in a .tel domain.

Click ads may be placed within the listing as a ‘website’ record. This allows you to build custom hyperlinks directly to the advertiser. The URL field allows for 255 characters, which offers plenty of opportunity to ‘tell the story’ and to attract responses.

Upon clicking the link, the user is then forwarded onto the actual URL provided by the advertiser.

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Dottel needs more features :

There is an article is suggesting more features like Customized Logo,Custom or Multiple layouts.
Also some guesstion on dottel’s “Section Heading”. I think these are good ideas  that dottel should adopt.

Justin Hayward from Telnic also answered to thoses suggections.

Manage .tel in 11 Languages

Telnic Limited ,the registry operator for the new communications-focused .tel top level domain (TLD), today announced that, as well as being able to view .tel domains in 11
languages on the web, customers can now also manage their .tel domains in those languages from today.
.tel control panel is now available in 11 languages :
* English
* Arabic
* German
* Spanish
* French
* Italian
* Japanese
* Korean
* Simplified Chinese
* Portuguese
* Russian

Bigcity.tel provides realtime information of weather and upcoming events in Worldwide big Cities.
This .tel site get feed from yahoo, I check weather informatiom from my BlackBerry daily from this Dottel site, It is really a good servcie and I bilive more and nore people will use this site for local wether information and upcoming enets

Hornet is a free .TEL address book application available for Blackberry® Smartphones. .TEL names are unique ID’s like smith.tel to which all of the owners contact information can be attached. With Hornet, you just enter the .tel name and all of the contact information is immediately downloaded. If the owner ever changes or adds new contact information, the new information is updated in Hornet the next time the contact is refreshed.