Please put down the .tel crack pipe.
Investment as what, a depository of text links?
Alive and well with the Acro-bat and bashing as always, eh ? :bah:
Already making money with .tel is proving all we need to know :sold:
At least he can afford the .tel crack ! :hehe:
.tel'n it like it is ! :talk:
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It is only good if your site gets enough traffic to convert some of that to $....
Traffic is CRITICAL is absolutely true, but remember that every .tel domain is a SUB-directory.
Like your name "spot" in the White Pages, or your Business "spot" in the Yellow Pages.
If the "xPages" people sold listings to individuals or businesses, that too would be and interesting development, but certainly it would not be the success as we know it today.
The success we know today is attributable to the fact that people know what PRIMARY directory (YellowPages, WhitePages) to go to for a particular SUB-directory.
Once the Official Telpages Directory is launched, and promoted, the SUB-directories will see traffic. The question is then,
"Do SUB-directories warrant REPEAT traffic?"
Left as an effort where the people decide the CONTENT of the BOOK in their SUB-directories, it will be interesting to see how all the various domains are populated and received.
This is of course no different than the "Internet" as it started.
Search Engines caused a BOOM of Domain Name Purchases and Websites. Most were "crappy" to say the least in the beginning, but over time, the BOOK known as "Google or Yahoo!" was a major hit.
Telpages will have to go through the "crappy" phase as well I'm sure, but, that is certainly no reason to suggest that the first GLOBAL BOOK for CONTACT INFORMATION will not be a MAJOR success.
Many SUB-directories (carts) are there, just waiting on the PRIMARY directory (horse) !
WhitePages and YellowPages consistently ranks around 600-700th most visited websites in the World, and that is with the United States being 93.6% of its traffic.
Being that the United States is only 4% of the World population, nobody can say contact information directories are not popular and worth investing in .... duh. :hearts: