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Managing your dot tel friends and privacy

You manage both your privacy and friends via your control panel at https://telhosting.ascio.com

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Step One - Register with TelFriends

Before you can use this facility you need to register a TelFriends account.

Go to https://telfriends.tel

Enter Your Name, Email (be very careful to get this right) and choose yourself a username you will remember

Then click the Signup button

Now check your email - You will then receive an email with a link in it to confirm your registration.

Click on this link (which should take you to the website) - leave the text in the boxes and click the confirm button

You will then be able to choose your password and an answer to your own secret question.

Once you have completed this login to the telfriends site add one or more of your dot tel domains.

Step Two - Activate Your TelFriends account

After adding your domain(s) to your TelFriends account you need to go back to the control panel to manage your dot tel - https://telhosting.ascio.com

Look for the Messages window on the right.

Click the link Activate TelFriends

A window will pop up with your .tel already filled in - enter the coloured letters and numbers you can see then click the Send Invitation button

You should then receive another automated email to with a link to click on

This should fill in the Activation Name and Activation PIN for you - All you need to do is click the Submit button

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Step Three- Save your Your TelFriends login in your Control Panel

After activating your TelFriends account you need to go back to the control panel to manage your dot tel - https://telhosting.ascio.com

Look for the Messages window on the right.

Complete the form i.e. Your TelFriends username, password and answer to the security question your chose.

Then click to save this.

Finally logout of your control panel

Step Four - Start Managing your Friends

The next time your login to https://telhosting.ascio.com

You should see a new Friends tab (along the top)

This is where you can accept or reject your friends' requests to see your private contact details

See the full guide here

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