Recently Telnic released a whitepaper on Advertisements within .tel, at first sight a feature for domainers, but there is more.
Very recently I added a sub-folder called links to my .tel domain and moved all the links to other websites etc to this sub-folder, the listing on the front page just got to long. With Ads I can have some of the links back on the front page and still have a short listing of personal contact details.
The only issues with Ads within .tel are:
- the TelProxy doesn’t support them yet
- you have to add them manually to your domain, the TelHosting Platform doesn’t have any support for Ads (yet?)
This is how my Ad for voipGATE looks in the DNS:
_ad.mcs.tel. 86400 IN TXT “.tad” “1” “2” “100” “voipGATE” “www.voipGATE.com” “uri” “http://www.voipgate.com” “desc” “Voice over IP operator”
The format looks complex, but at the end it’s really easy to understand, everything is explained in the whitepaper.
2009/09/22 at 15:25
Hello Marc, where do I insert?:
_ad.mcs.tel. 86400 IN TXT “.tad” “1″ “2″ “100″ “voipGATE” “www.voipGATE.com” “uri” “http://www.voipgate.com” “desc” “Voice over IP operator”
Did you have to create a _ad folder? Where? How?
Or how do you proceed with your .tel adverts, today?
Kind regards,
Alexander
2009/09/22 at 15:38
I added the advertisement via the Client SOAP API (see http://dev.telnic.org/api/client-soap/index.html), the Whitepaper (http://dev.telnic.org/docs/advertisements.pdf) gives you more details about the formatting. So far there seems to be no support on the TelHosting Web Interface to manage advertisements.
BTW, the TelProxy now displays the advertisements.