Disruptive Telephony

Dan York on how Voice over IP is rewriting (almost) everything you thought you understood about telephony…

Month: December 2008

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    Slight blog redesign underway…

    Longtime readers may notice that this DisruptiveTelephony.com site looks a bit different today. The navigation bar you can see on Disruptive Conversations is gone. Some of the sidebar boxes have been re-arranged. The phone image in the header is missing… and I’m sure some other issues…

    Here’s what is going on – When I posted my last piece about the .tel domain, it had the unfortunate side affect of destroying my layout because the DNS entries I include in a <pre> section were far longer than my layout allowed. As a result my two right sidebars were overwriting the text and the article was basically unreadable.

    So I had so spend a little bit undoing the kludgey way that I’ve done the 3-column layout on this blog. LONGtime readers will recall that I set up this 3-column layout long before TypePad offered it as a standard layout – and so I had to do some real TypePad-advanced-templates hackery to make it all work. Unfortunately it always had the fatal flaw that if my posts contained images or words that were too big, the sidebars would overwrite the text. Similarly, users forced to stick with Internet Explorer 6 complained that it…

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    Is the new “.tel” domain more than just a pretty face on top of DNS?

    Is the new “.tel” domain launching today more than just a pretty web interface to DNS? Is it something really unique? Is it a new service that couldn’t be easily replicated elsewhere?

    In case you haven’t been following the subject, a company called Telnic has launched a new top-level DNS domain “.tel” today. Today, December 3rd, is the launch of the “Sunrise” period where companies can (for a high price) obtain the “.tel” domain associated with their trademark.

    The point of “.tel”, though, is to not just be “yet-another-top-level-domain” but rather to be a global directory of information – with users/companies having control of their own information.

    With the first part of the launch happening today there has been predictably been a good bit of coverage in the blogosphere. Danielle Belopotosky had a great piece up on the NY Times Bits blog, Techmeme has a flow of links to stories and I am sure more will be appearing.

    I would, though, suggest people wanting to understand the goals of the service go back and listen to our Squawk Box conversation on September 9th with Telnic’s Justin Hayward (www.justin.tel). The part about .tel starts at about the 17:50 minute…

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