Atlanta Area Businesses Get First Crack at Phone Number-Based Web Addresses; Your Community PhoneBook(TM) Now Offering TelID's ''Find a Website with a Phone Number'' Feature to Local Businesses.ATLANTA -- To help local businesses attract visitors to their websites, DataNational, publisher of Your Community PhoneBook(TM), is now offering Atlanta area businesses TelID's "Find a Website with a Phone Number" feature. TelID provides businesses a simple web address based on the businesses' phone number listed in a phone directory. "Many local businesses have long web addresses that are hard to remember - sometimes they have more than 50 characters," said Mac McCausland, regional director of sales for Your Community PhoneBook. "With TelID, consumers can look up the business in the yellow pages to get the phone number and use it to get to the website. It is a simple idea, and it works." Advertisers in the 21 Atlanta area Your Community PhoneBooks will be the first businesses in the mainland United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. to utilize the TelID service. TelID was launched in Hawaii earlier this year and has been embraced by Oahu advertisers and consumers. How the Service Works Businesses that sign up for a TelID listing in Your Community PhoneBook get a specially highlighted number in the 2006 directory and a link established between their phone number and their actual website address in TelID's system. Using the highlighted phone number from Your Community PhoneBook, consumers will be able to go directly to a TelID website by entering www.telid.com/ into the browser's address box, followed by the 10-digit phone number. Alternatively, users will be able to enter the number at www.telid.com. No special plug-ins are required, and the service works with any browser browser Software that allows a computer user to find and view information on the Internet. The first text-based browser for the World Wide Web became available in 1991; Web use expanded rapidly after the release in 1993 of a browser called Mosaic, which used . "Small, local businesses have a difficult time getting attention online. Many memorable URLs are already taken and search engine keyword programs are expensive and ineffective," said Henry Whitfield, vice president of sales and marketing for TelID. "TelID is intuitive and direct and provides visibility on and offline." Currently, TelID is being offered to advertisers in the Buford-Suwanee, Dallas-Hiram, East Cobb East Cobb refers to the section of Cobb County, GA bounded by Cherokee County and the City of Mountain Park to the north, Fulton County and the Chattahoochee River to the East, Bell Ferry Road, Interstate 75, Interstate 575, and the Marietta city limits to the west, and Interstate 285 and , Henry County, Snellville and West Cobb directories. Advertising opportunities are available now. For more information about getting a TelID listing, call Your Community PhoneBook at 877-843-7331. The first directories will be distributed in late summer. About DataNational DataNational, Inc., a division of Volt Information Sciences Inc. and publisher of Your Community PhoneBook(TM), is one of the larger independent telephone directory publishers in the country. DataNational publishes telephone directories that cover over 140 markets in the mid-Atlantic and Southern United States The Southern United States—commonly referred to as the American South, Dixie, or simply the South—constitutes a large distinctive region in the southeastern and south-central United States. . This includes directories in Arkansas, the District of Columbia District of Columbia, federal district (2000 pop. 572,059, a 5.7% decrease in population since the 1990 census), 69 sq mi (179 sq km), on the east bank of the Potomac River, coextensive with the city of Washington, D.C. (the capital of the United States). , Florida, Georgia, Maryland, Missouri, North Carolina North Carolina, state in the SE United States. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean (E), South Carolina and Georgia (S), Tennessee (W), and Virginia (N). Facts and Figures Area, 52,586 sq mi (136,198 sq km). Pop. , Oklahoma, Pennsylvania Oklahoma is a borough in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 915 at the 2000 census. Geography Oklahoma is located at (40.581613, -79.574586)GR1. , South Carolina South Carolina, state of the SE United States. It is bordered by North Carolina (N), the Atlantic Ocean (SE), and Georgia (SW). Facts and Figures Area, 31,055 sq mi (80,432 sq km). Pop. (2000) 4,012,012, a 15. , Texas, Virginia and West Virginia West Virginia, E central state of the United States. It is bordered by Pennsylvania and Maryland (N), Virginia (E and S), and Kentucky and, across the Ohio R., Ohio (W). Facts and Figures Area, 24,181 sq mi (62,629 sq km). Pop. . About TelID TelID LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control licenses its innovative telephone number-to-URL mapping registry to directory publishers as an advertising listing feature. TelID's proprietary URL-forwarding registry routes phone number-based requests to the web page associated with the number. The service is especially valuable to local businesses, which often have sites that are hard to find. Formed in 2005 as a business unit within SnapNames.com Inc., a Portland, Oregon-based, leading infrastructure services provider to the international domain name industry, TelID became a separate company in November 2005. For more information, please visit www.TelID.com or contact info@TelID.com. |
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