Hey Telnic!
An old post worth repeating:
For what it's worth, dotTEL needs to be reinvented. Here's one possible concept for a dotTEL makeover:
With hub based, centralized social network giants absorbing our data, images and user generated content, it's time for someone to come up with a Peer To Peer Social Network platform. Think of it as Napster style social networking.
Put a few brilliant coders and social network savants in a room and let them brainstorm how to reinvent dotTEL by incorporating the best of all social network hubs into a P2P compliant, portable, modular social network.
This would take the form of a decentralized, dotTEL template based network in which end users would maintain complete ownership and control of all user generated content. Portability would allow end users to "plug-in" or "unplug" from any compliant P2P social network on a modular basis. When all is said and done, what would emerge would be a social network structure in which end users have all the power and control.
In addition, as an improvement over "800/877/866" toll free numbers, dotTEL could be programmed so that dotTEL domain owners could choose to render the underlying phone number completely transparent - just like ip numbers are to dotCOM domain names. Then, a dotTEL domain name will actually become the phone number - not just a link to a phone number.
The psychological impact of this, alone, would totally change the public perception of what dotTEL represents!
Of course, if dialing a specific dotTEL domain name would result in charges of any kind (i.e., "976" numbers), a dialog box would appear with a warning. One final thought, how about incorporating voice recognition technology into a toll free "800" number or VOIP hub that would allow dotTEL domain names to be voice dialed from landlines and pay phones?
Put these concepts together, join forces with a major mobile provider and you've got a viable dotTEL for the 21st century!
Another old
POST with more ideas yet to be implemented.
Hey NamePros Members!
In the meantime, I'll be renewing the following dotTEL domain names consisting of these keywords:
4ATTORNEY
4CAB
4CABS
4DELIVERY
4DENTIST
4DENTISTS
4DOCTOR
4DOCTORS
4FRANCHISE
4GOLD
4LAWYER
4LOANS
4PIZZA
4PLUMBER
4SILVER
4TAXI
4TICKETS
4TOWING
CANDY
CASHADVANCE
CHECKCASHING
ELECTRICAL
FLOWERDELIVERY
GIFTBASKET
GREETINGS
HEATING
HOMEWORK
HOTLINE
HOTLINES
LMAO
MONEYORDER
MONEYORDERS
OVERNIGHT
PAYDAYLOAN
PAYDAYLOANS
PLUMBING
ROMANCE
ROOFING
STANDUP
TALKRADIO
TATTOO
TOW
TOWING
UFO
WEBMASTER
WORKATHOME
No amount of debate can determine whether this is a good move or not. I don't know, and here's a news flash:
Neither do any of you! Only time (and ROI) will tell. I've made far worse financial decisions in my life. Sure, I could have bought a huge flat screen and killer sound system with the money I've invested in dotTEL (yeah, yeah, yeah, I know... not "invested"... "thrown away"), but last I heard, the value of home theater systems ain't been appreciating particularly well, either.