scandiman said:
Took the words out of my mouth, I'm very curious how people hope to earn $$ from these domains aside from speculative resale. I have two .tel's, one for personal use and one for a business I have, both are going to be used as intended, providing contact info. Best wishes to everyone with your .tel registrations.
Personally the few I registered, I don't plan on selling... unless someone makes me an offer I can't refuse of course. I think some of the geo names should do pretty well (I hope). Some of the other generic names that could be used for listings in whatever keyword (like hotels) they have could do real well too if .tel gains some popularity. There are a lot of good ideas floating around for what to do with the .tel domains.
Of course, whether they do well or not is highly dependent on a lot of factors...a few being .tel domains being convenient for people to use on their phones and blackberries, .tel being marketed well by both the domain owners and by the registrars & telnic (They do have a good commercial!), having additional features added when needed or when it could make .tel more useful, and having some .tel developed by an already recognized company take off and gain popularity. The last one doesn't necessarily have to happen, but it could definitely help!
If it flops horribly like like some of the other extensions have, then yeah, some money was probably wasted. I only registered one during the insane price period...since I thought it'd probably flop :p I went back and forth on whether to register it for hours before deciding to take the risk. After reading some of the ideas here though, I now think that there's some hope that it'll catch on and be worth the investment.
