Re: TelFriends though – don’t you have to have a .tel domain in order to become a tel friend – and so get at the private contact information? This isn’t much use to me as a big chunk of people I want to be able to keep in contact with me have never bought a domain. So I’d effectively be asking them to spend 20 dollars just to have my contact details at some point in the future – they’ll never do it.

It would be good if I could authorise people from my .tel domain using people’s email addresses.

Kieren

Glad you like your .tel. In terms of securely sharing information, there are a couple of options:

1) Make your personal contact information private by encrypting it and sharing it using http://telfriends.tel – a free username and password that your contacts can use to log-in to see private information you want to share with individuals and groups – friend me at justin.tel to see.
2) Using concierge services like WikiWorldBook.com or Google Profiles where they will screen and divert email to you after checking it’s not spam. Or Google Voice (and things like YAC.com in the UK, which has been going for a decade) for telephone numbers

From a price perspective, Name.com are selling .tel domains for $8.95 and you of course point out that you don’t need to pay for ongoing hosting costs. We’re seeing more price competition in the market and we have thousands of resellers of the registrars out there all competing.

Please let us know if you have any further experiences or suggestions at community@telnic.org

Thanks!

Justin Hayward
Telnic Limited
justin.tel