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January 29, 2005

Bellster: One Week Later

It has been a week since the launch of Bellster and after a week:

Number of Threatened Lawsuits: 1
Number of Registered Bellster Nodes: 683
Number of Nodes Online right now: 92
Number of Routes available right now: 823
Countries with routes available right now: 23
(Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Egypt, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Philippines, Poland, Russia, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, UK, USA )

According to Google, there are now: 9290 hits on the term "Bellster."

History of Google Hits on "Bellster":
Jan-29: 9290
Jan-28: 5290
Jan:27: 5390
Jan:26: 4510
Jan-25: 1450
Jan-24: 1270
Jan-23: 970 (launch date)

Within days of the launch, Bellster was Slashdotted, written up in the Wall Street Journal and on CNET and there is a Business Week story in the works. It turns out we also got the attention of BellSouth who told us yesterday that they would like to see the use of the name Bellster...stop.

To date, the launch of Bellster has been covered by quite a number of people/blogs in the blogsphere including:

- werblog: Pulver launches Bellster
- Boing Boing Boing: happiness is a warm dialtone
- one.point.zero: The bellster network phone sharing service
- thevoipblog: Bellster P2P VoIP Creates Free Calling to Regular Phones
- IP Inferno: Bellster, Slashdot, Hotfoon
- FlaminTiki: P2P for phones
- Tim Janen's Blog (deutsch): Bellster Net: 'Phone Sharing'
- LordRich.com: Bellster
- Technology Futurist: Bellster: Calls for Nothing and the Chicks for Free?
- Techdirt: P2P PSTN?
- Geekin': 01 22 2005
- Broadband Reports: Pulver's dream
- Alec Saunders.LOG: Bellster
- VoIPWatch: What Bellster is all about
- Slashdot: P2P Meets PSTN, With Bellster
- Converge Network Digest: Pulver's Bellster Builds P2P Voice Gateway Community
- eurovoip: pulver launched Bellster

Going into this, I didn't know what to expect. The number of nodes and PSTN routes supporting Bellster have already greatly exceeded my goals for this phase of the beta test. Special thanks to everyone who has decided to give Bellster a chance and together we will be able to offer the world access to a P2P Communications Network.

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Posted by jeff on January 29, 2005 05:24 PM | Permalink

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