Can .TEL be monetized?

[phase111]

Domainers go on about not being able to monetize a .tel, but if you had a great domain and plenty of rich kewords leading to traffic, then wouldn't you be able to direct .tel traffic to a monetized website, wouldn't this work well? It's not monetizing .tel itself as a website, just one that it points too. :santa:

 

[Kate]

I wouldn't expect a lot of type-in traffic in that extension, not more than .aero or .museum...

 

[-REECE-]

The secret to greatness with .tel:

1) tell every domainer how highly brandable it is and how it's going to revolutionize contact management
2) tell every domainer about how other successful buyouts of the past turned out and suggest to them that they don't want to miss the boat this time.
3) Enthusiastically Promote any and every piece of news related to .tel
4) Turn news unrelated to .tel into news about how great .tel is (see #3)
5) Overly exaggerate any use by F500 corporations. They're not using it to protect their brand, they're backers of .tel!
6) Report every sale of .tel and convince domainers who haven't yet bought in (see #2) that they should.
7) Convince others that naysayers are just angry they missed out.
8) Sell whatever you do buy before everyone figure out how worthless the extension is
9) Find a new landrush to invest in
10) Repeat.

Domainers go on about not being able to monetize a .tel, but if you had a great domain and plenty of rich kewords leading to traffic, then wouldn't you be able to direct .tel traffic to a monetized website, wouldn't this work well? It's not monetizing .tel itself as a website, just one that it points too. :santa:

 

[firefly]

The secret to greatness with .tel:

1) tell every domainer how highly brandable it is and how it's going to revolutionize contact management
2) tell every domainer about how other successful buyouts of the past turned out and suggest to them that they don't want to miss the boat this time.
3) Enthusiastically Promote any and every piece of news related to .tel
4) Turn news unrelated to .tel into news about how great .tel is (see #3)
5) Overly exaggerate any use by F500 corporations. They're not using it to protect their brand, they're backers of .tel!
6) Report every sale of .tel and convince domainers who haven't yet bought in (see #2) that they should.
7) Convince yourself that naysayers are just angry they missed out.
8) Sell whatever you do buy before everyone figure out how worthless the extension is
9) Find a new landrush to invest in

Post of the month, regarding the most redundant extension to ever be concieved.
:imho:

+rep

 

[phase111]

The secret to greatness with .tel:

1) tell every domainer how highly brandable it is and how it's going to revolutionize contact management
2) tell every domainer about how other successful buyouts of the past turned out and suggest to them that they don't want to miss the boat this time.
3) Enthusiastically Promote any and every piece of news related to .tel
4) Turn news unrelated to .tel into news about how great .tel is (see #3)
5) Overly exaggerate any use by F500 corporations. They're not using it to protect their brand, they're backers of .tel!
6) Report every sale of .tel and convince domainers who haven't yet bought in (see #2) that they should.
7) Convince yourself that naysayers are just angry they missed out.
8) Sell whatever you do buy before everyone figure out how worthless the extension is
9) Find a new landrush to invest in
10) Repeat.

Haha, awesome post mate.

 

[dag]

The secret to greatness with .tel:

1) tell every domainer how highly brandable it is and how it's going to revolutionize contact management
2) tell every domainer about how other successful buyouts of the past turned out and suggest to them that they don't want to miss the boat this time.
3) Enthusiastically Promote any and every piece of news related to .tel
4) Turn news unrelated to .tel into news about how great .tel is (see #3)
5) Overly exaggerate any use by F500 corporations. They're not using it to protect their brand, they're backers of .tel!
6) Report every sale of .tel and convince domainers who haven't yet bought in (see #2) that they should.
7) Convince others that naysayers are just angry they missed out.
8) Sell whatever you do buy before everyone figure out how worthless the extension is
9) Find a new landrush to invest in
10) Repeat.

Hard to believe you're the .mobi forum moderator, Reece. That could just as easily be referring to LLLL.coms, by the way...

The straight answer is that no, .TEL probably can't be monetized on its own, other than offering a link to the organization's Web site, where they can then make the $.

 

[-REECE-]

The post was about .tel, not .mobi.

Off-topic, however I have nothing against .mobi -- nice extension for development with current prices the way they are.

Hard to believe you're the .mobi forum moderator, Reece. That could just as easily be referring to LLLL.coms, by the way...

The straight answer is that no, .TEL probably can't be monetized on its own, other than offering a link to the organization's Web site, where they can then make the $.

 

[phase111]

The straight answer is that no, .TEL probably can't be monetized on its own, other than offering a link to the organization's Web site, where they can then make the $.[/QUOTE]

Yes, this was my original point though.

It's a bit unfair to dump it in the .aero and .museum category because it's not a traditional website, it's something very different and it's not confined to set industries either. It has across the board use.

 

[Jeff]

Great thread ... of course, regarding the highly brandable .TEL, IMHO. :blink: :music:

See you soon.
-Jeff

 

[labrocca]

I hope it's not monetizable. It will keep domainers away from it. The cycle that Reece has pointed out isn't hypothetical. It's what's going on landrush after landrush.

The tide is changing. The days of registered a name in landrush to flip for 100x profit are done. Register what you can develop into a site that makes sense and can make money then be happy. We have enough examples of registrar, registries, and domainers greed to know their intentions. I can't speak on what .tel people want but apparently it's not websites. Instead it's much more inventive but quite possible much more difficult to monetize. Sure someone will find a way eventually but domainers will be wise imho to pass on the extension for resale. I will get labrocca.tel and that's about all I need.

 

[cobainer]

The straight answer is that no, .TEL probably can't be monetized on its own, other than offering a link to the organization's Web site, where they can then make the $.

agree with dag completely...I don't think its going to be monetizable...

 

[VURG]

I don't think it will be monetizable in the near future.

(But I don't think that is a bad thing.)

 

[Jeff]

I don't think it will be monetizable in the near future.

(But I don't think that is a bad thing.)

:hi:

If folks can easily find your key CONTACT INFORMATION on your highly brandable .TEL while about and about and "on the go" ... and then proceed to purchase your product(s) or pay to utilize your service(s), would this not be effectively monetizing your easily memorable and highly brandable .TEL IYHO's? :gl: :talk:

And, particularly ... when compared with a longer, far less memorable (and very VERY difficult to brand!), and awkward CLUNKY, two-syllabled extension?

Just my two sense.
-Jeff

 

[saucey]

Example of how you could make money.... I.M.O.

Hotel.tel

First, provide..

-choice of continent, then...
-choice of country, then..
-choice of city

Now the fun part...

-choice of Hotel..
-by name, or...
-by price, or..
-by location

I think you could have Hotels pay you to list their business on YOUR .tel site, just like paying to be listed in the Yellow Pages... Only this would be much more accessible to people via cell phones, blackberry's, cpu's , ps3, etc...

Sounds like some serious monthly revenue to me! :blink:

 

[phase111]

Example of how you could make money.... I.M.O.

Hotel.tel

First, provide..

-choice of continent, then...
-choice of country, then..
-choice of city

Now the fun part...

-choice of Hotel..
-by name, or...
-by price, or..
-by location

I think you could have Hotels pay you to list their business on YOUR .tel site, just like paying to be listed in the Yellow Pages... Only this would be much more accessible to people via cell phones, blackberry's, cpu's , ps3, etc...

Sounds like some serious monthly revenue to me! :blink:

For sure!
The fact is that with some careful keyword loading, it should be possible to rank well with search engines...from what I can .tel, keywords listed on the dns directly do very well. Optimization with a good domain = profit even in the .tel format. You can not only get all your targeted traffic to click through to your website, thus ensuring relevant companies, or dear I say it, domainer's, would want to potentially pay big bucks for your domain.
Also, there's no reason why you cannot sub let your domain to companies so thy can list their company on your .tel, so you would be acting as a mini directory with your domain..as already suggested.

:imho: :hearts:

 

[Stargazer]

How much information can be stored in the .Tel contact record?
Is there any limit on the amount of characters allowed?

If i own Hotel.Tel can i insert the contact information for several hotels or only the name, address, phone and email info for my own company / hotel?

From what i have read about .Tel i don’t see any reason for regging any...

I mean... What tactic works best? Regging only one word generics, LLL.Tel??? All the good generics will be taken during sunrise as they always are, and you don’t wanna reg any trademarked names. So that leaves only regging my own name and / or my company name.

.Tel may be "Highly Brandable" But what’s the point if i can’t use it for websites? .Travel is also highly brandable, at least on paper but this TLD is far from taking off if ever!

Not to mention .Asia that is very brandable and represents a region where half of humanity lives! Furthermore you are allowed to build websites on .Asia I have invested in several landrush .Asia and have high hopes for this TLD. If you dont agree thats ok. We are all in this to make money and not everyone can afford premium generic .coms.

Just my $0.02 of ramblings... If you want to invest in .Tel i wish you luck and hope that your investment becomes successful. But just because a TLD is considered brandable does not guarantee that it will be a success!

 

[saucey]

Here is an actual .tel page.

It is an example using the same name we discussed. It will show you that the possibilities for a good name are endless, and that real money making potential does exist.

http://hotels.tel

 

[Kate]

Here is an actual .tel page.

It is an example using the same name we discussed. It will show you that the possibilities for a good name are endless, and that real money making potential does exist.

http://hotels.tel

Since there is no content at all it's nothing more than a directory service. It's only useful if you already know exactly what you're looking for.

Anyway, there is nothing here that can't be done using current technology...
personally it reminds me of gopher. It's so 1993 :p

 

[Jeff]

Good point!

But just because a TLD is considered brandable does not guarantee that it will be a success!

^ I agree ... and for clarification on an earlier point ... a short, memorable, and highly brandable (.TEL) extension stands a far better chance of weathering the significant obstacles that accompany the launch of a new / newer extension(s) than an long, two syllabled, made-up, unprofessional, and CLUNKY extension (in the case of the failed "dot Mobey", for instance) - particulary for short, ease-of-use by those that are out and about and "on the go"! :talk: :imho:

Just my merry two sense. :santa:
-Jeff

 

[saucey]

Since there is no content at all it's nothing more than a directory service. It's only useful if you already know exactly what you're looking for.

That's sorta how I see it. But I don't think it's a bad thing.
Using the Hotels.tel example, you can see how money can be made. You could have hundereds of hotels, from all over the world linked to your site.

Now imagine you are in some city in Cambodia (stick with me here :p ) on some crazy trip. You decide you want to go explore some other areas of the country, but can't get a straight answer from the locals on which cities have proper accomodations and you don't know how to read the phonebook(foreign language)...You are sick of dirty bathrooms and lumpy mattresses, so you want to go somewhere that has decent accomodation..The internet is hard to find, and the connections are spotty at best..
NO PROBLEM just type in hotels.tel into your cell phone, and discover which cities have hotels in your style and price range...

Same could be done for Cambodia.tel... You could set up a site with all the links for essential services, tour companies, bars, clubs, travel agents.. etc.. No more googling for bars in Cambodia and having to sift through 840 000 entries ranging from drunken photos to music notes(bars)! Cambodia.tel would have it all instantly, and with links to the websites and street maps for directions!

These are the uses I see for this extension! I think with the right name, you could do quite well. A name like cardboard.tel may not do as well as hotels.tel..

Read this for latest news on .TEL sunrise...

http://www.telnic.org/downloads/Successful_Sunrise.pdf