The .TEL Discussion Thread

[brendan52190]

Hi

For this, let's assume that .tel will not be a total flop.

What type of keywords will be most valuable for this extension? Will it be geographical keywords, like newyork.tel, losangeles.tel, etc, or what else?

 

[Traveler]

What you are describing needs to go on it's own page with a design optimized for voting, on it's own host on it's own .com, .net or .whatever. This goes too far beyond what .tel is meant for.

You say that images, banners and videos shouldn't be on voting pages, but the laws of marketing say otherwise. You just do a redirect for mobile users so that they aren't hit with as much.

It sounds to me like you are concerned about having a template that is easy to update on your end. You should't have any problem pulling this off on an actual website. Any designer can do this for you along with the same "click to dial" links and admin page. Very easy stuff. Trust me.

Good point, please post it in the .tel discussion thread (this is the "Showcase" thread)

http://www.namepros.com/561820-the-official-tel-discussion-thread-107.html#post3378551

 

[DomainTalker]

I agree with Ms Domainer - Not controlling the quality & clarity of the TelHosting access process - uniform at every registrar - is a marketing disaster for Telnic...


The whole point about .tel is to reach the mass market....ie Everyone should have one.....No website to develop, no coding or programming skills required......My grandma can even have one, and use it!....Therefore, its special point is ease of use in every way, from beginning to end. Nice idea.


Then, the strategy is completely undermined right out of the gate by NOT having an idiot-proof, super-simple, TelHosting access & setup process at the Registrar level front gate!!....All too complicated for newbies to understand how to get access to TelHosting (with special access codes etc), right at the start!!


Telnic should have mandated (and supplied) to EVERY registrar a uniform step-by-step guide - from the moment of initial reg, to TelHosting access steps, to how long to expect it to resolve from 'Activation' - that every registrar HAD to display, email to registrants, & use for .tel every reg....Standard instructions.


Its nuts to allow every individual registrar to just do their own thing....Registrars can screw up .tel's reputation because they (the registrars) don't bother to make the process easy for non-techs...


If I were Telnic - even now - I'd correct this with every registrar...fast.....Ease of access & use is key to .tel marketing differentiation....Don't let the registrars mess it up.

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[WordWalker]

Two more...

Spy.tel

Report.tel

 

[Traveler]

Spy.tel

Report.tel

Nice names, looks like you got them for $300 a pop according to the whois data (pre GA).

Time will tell, but that might just be money well spent.

 

[nrmillions]

I agree with the concerns above. I am one of the people who thinks .tel will fail but I registered 12 .tel domains on Moniker "just incase", just like I do when most new things come out for such a tiny investment. If I lose my $200 I could care less. I seriously have no clue how to access them or do anything with them. Do I need to do something when I am logged into Moniker or is there a seperate website I have to go to or what? Moniker never emailed me any info for any of the 12 domains. If I cant get it all working i'm sure your average person would get frustrated and give up too. .tel is complex compared to how simple it is to get a .tv site up and running when you register through me.tv. You would have to be an idiot not to be able to get your .tv site up and running and .tv never took off. Its amazing how poorly thought out .tel has been considering how many years its been in development. IMO it seems like the whole .tel thing was built just to squeeze money out of domainers rather than becoming a virtual yellow pages, especially charging people $300 per domain at first. If telnic doesnt do something soon to fix all of these issues there is no way in hell .tel will ever go mainstream. I'm being 100% serious about not knowing how to get these running so if someone could PM me some instructions that would be great, lol.

 

[lexisdomains]

Tax Portal

eFile.tel​

I have eFile.tel which offers several relevant services for consumers & tax professionals.

http://eFile.tel

 

[Traveler]

eFile.tel​

I have eFile.tel which offers several relevant services for consumers & tax professionals.

http://eFile.tel

How long did that take you to set up? I like what you have done with it and I have a few names that I want to do something similar with. Since this is the "Showcase" thread you can PM me. Or better yet, show off your dev work in the discussion thread.

http://www.namepros.com/561820-the-official-tel-discussion-thread-107.html#post3378551

 

[zuve]

My new regs..

Cone.tel
Devi.tel

 

[footodors]

login here:
http://telhosting.moniker.com/g2/login.action

 

[nrmillions]

login here:
http://telhosting.moniker.com/g2/login.action

ok i just tried that but its not working with my moniker login info.

 

[nrmillions]

My new regs..

Cone.tel
Devi.tel

would people look those up in a yellow pages? what do you plan to do with them?

 

[CDM]

just noticed susan.tel is for lease at $29. per month

profit the minute its leased (assuming no premium pick up)

not a bad idea at all. 12 of those and you pocket an extra $4k per year with basically no work involved

 

[lexisdomains]

More than testing.

"hotel suites" is one thing.. but why would anybody search for the phrase "hotelsuites.tel" when looking for a hotel?

The broad type-in traffic for this term is over 1,000,000 & growing according to Google Insight.

However, the foward-looking goal of .Tel is to create better brand visibility for both online & mobile markets, namely through offering relevant & concise business contact information which is sort of a shortcut to marketplace, except without all the ads.

Typing in HotelSuites.tel would be better than sifting through 17,100,000 search results [actual No. of competing sites on Google] on the web for the keyword phrase 'hotel suites'.

Maybe I am misunderstanding your claim, and excitement. Perhaps you are just happy to see the .tel extension get indexed (at all)? You are testing the waters? Trying to see how to approach SEO in the future, etc.

Well, I'm not testing my SEO methodology as it is already proven. Rather, I'm measuring how the search engine algorithms will react to .TEL records & non-terminal NAPTRS.


If you remember, Google 'Host crowding algorithm change' limited search results to only to URL resources per domain, including subdomains.

Thus far, It appears that Google is treating each NAPTR record & non-terminal NAPTRS as individual & unique.

Why is this significant?

This is significant because it will now be possible to have more than two URLs representing one brand name on a given page result. (as in the case of HotelSuites.tel)

To test this SEO theory, try searching Namepros.com. How many page results are returned for this specific URL? only two excluding .Mobi. Right?......

But when you reference HotelSuites.tel, Google is returning 7 page results for the primary NAPTR record. Bear in mind, each of these sub-domains can be optimized out.

I suspect that Google will probably address this soon, but I hope not!

Thanks db-.

Your thoughts,

 

[Ms Domainer]

ok i just tried that but its not working with my moniker login info.

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It's a separate log-in; registrars were supposed to email you log-in credentials, but most of them did not.



I don't have any domains with Moniker, but they may have a FAQ page for .tel.

If not, get in touch with tech support.

If domainers are having such difficulty, I can only imagine my non-tech uncle or aunt trying to navigate this mire.

This is serious, Telnic. Please address this issue ASAP!


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[zuve]

would people look those up in a yellow pages? what do you plan to do with them?

No plans right now. I just reged them for their short and pronounceable words. Maybe there are companies or persons having relationship with that names. Not sure with "cone", but I believe "devi" is one of popular female names on earth.

Any comments?

 

[hasseily]

I thought you guys had all gone on to discussing trading, and here you come with the most interesting question of all: What the hell is Telnic doing, not getting the registrars to fix their processes for .tel?

Let me tell you story.

A long time ago in a galaxy far away, there lived the greatest hunters to ever walk the planet Lygaphon XIV, always unerringly, day after day, returning to their wives and children with the succulent carcasses of spotted white hexapumas.

One day this weird scrawny kid came to the leader and said to him:
"hey boss, why are we wasting time running after the food? let's make it come to us and grow it"

The fearless leader took one good look at him, laughed heartily, and answered:
"oh yeah? Good luck, boy. Come back when you've got something to show me, otherwise stop dreaming"

The kid was proud, and decided he'd still go ahead, so he went to some of the strongest hunters and asked them if they could give him an hour of their time every day, since they were so good that by middle afternoon they were twiddling their thumbs and getting drunk on Long Lygaphon Iced Mint. Well the kid was persuasive, and the hunters were a nice bunch, and shrugged and said why not, a bit of work on the side can't be bad.

So for an hour a day, they plowed fields and built fences and started setting up the basic building blocks of what would later be called in their language Akhri-Kultur. And one day the seeds were put in the tilled earth, and some time later the roots were finally Released from their shells and the plants were Launched through the earth and into the bright green sky.

And the hunters raised an interested eyebrow, but the wives and children couldn't contain their excitement. And so did the old people who couldn't hunt any more.

But the next morning the hunters took their blackwood bark spears and sharpened their shellknives and set out again, with the women looking at them and scratching their heads.

That went on for a few days until one evening while at the dinner table, a woman asked her man:
"Why are you still hunting when you could be tilling the soil?"
And his response:
"But that's what I do!"

And she smiled, and thought "let's wait for the harvest."

And when harvest day came, and the hunters saw the golden mana from the soil around the village, some of them put down their spears and picked up a plow, joining the young ones who'd already been digging for months.

And the rest of the great hunters kept doing what they were great at, and the tribe flourished with meat, cereals and vegetables on the tables daily.

 

[Ms Domainer]

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Check your .tels on DomainTools Whois.

My Poets [.] tel has a ranking on Alexa, about 2,700,000.

Not too shabby for a non-website, less than a week old.


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[DnEbook]

i.m bored , when is the next extension coming out ?

 

[Ms Domainer]

i.m bored , when is the next extension coming out ?

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I'm betting it will be .nyc.

Maybe you could start "The Official Next TLD Thread: What Shall It Be?"


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[DnEbook]

i'm hungry