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?

 

[kukgle]

Asian.tel was sold for 750. Not a good start for this generic DN.

 

[Steven]

Asian.tel was sold for 750. Not a good start for this generic DN.

It had 1 bid.
Unless it's been confirmed that the name has changed hands, we can't safely say that it has been sold.

 

[steveteva]

TRAFFIC will be the biggest test to watch and see what dot tel market predicts for futur.

This is a great oportunity for dot tel domainers to know if dot tel will be great or flop in the domain market (not user market)

I believe that some big and famous dot com domainers will bid on some dot tel, they are savvy investors and think of long term.

I agree that some domains listed with $100 000 reserve price is a bit high but who never knows.

 

[cyberonyx]

resolved

telnic support very fast. fixed.

 

[hasseily]

Yes. Henri, is it possible to select a prior version (56) of telhosting until these issues are resolved? the map function is critical to our websites deployment.

No we can't have multiple versions live at the same time. However, we can fix the problem as soon as we've identified it. So step one is reproducing the problem(s), and then things will go very quickly.

The first thing that's weird is that the text you see under the map in the telhosting is NOT what you should see in the new version of the Telhosting panel. There's a cache at work here somewhere.
In version 57, the latitude and longitude are one above the other, and the precision is at 6 digits after the dot.

Second, there's definitely something iffy in the search box when entering coordinates. We'll investigate asap and hotfix it.

Edit: Regarding the second issue, we're asking Google for a reverse geocode of the info you enter in the search field. We then take the first placemark that's returned. What this means is that essentially you can't enter exact loc coordinates in the search. I'll see to changing this so we let google decide what's best, just like on its own site.

 

[steveteva]

Henri, is there a way to add the graphical menu rather than plain text? I look at developper forum on telnic but did not found any infos.

 

[hasseily]

Henri, is there a way to add the graphical menu rather than plain text? I look at developper forum on telnic but did not found any infos.

What graphical or text? Where?
(please keep the tech discussions on the dev.telnic.org site)

 

[cyberonyx]

The first thing that's weird is that the text you see under the map in the telhosting is NOT what you should see in the new version of the Telhosting panel. There's a cache at work here somewhere.
In version 57, the latitude and longitude are one above the other, and the precision is at 6 digits after the dot.

point 1 seems fixed. telnic support very fast.


I also want to mention again, that the my.tel iphone app is doing mapping EXACTLY on entry, and then, google is displaying back near enough exactly the same recorded data.

unfortunately, i cannot easily use the iphone app always. cut and copy is needed on that device badly in such instances.

What graphical or text? Where?
(please keep the tech discussions on the dev.telnic.org site)

this point he raises is huge for displaying a .tel website. todays mobile devices are capable of displaying so much more than text. speed is important, but so is the user experience.

 

[FreakySteve]

To stay on topic and avoid getting deleted, banned, suspended, etc...

Dot-tels are definitely a controversial and yet-to-be proven TLD. But there are a lot of great initiatives out there and I am sure some enterprising individuals and organizations will show this TLD to be a winner.

With a noteworthy auction coming up that has reserve bids in the 6 figure range for a short geo, it would seem that geos are very deirable for this TLD.

I would also agree that short names, proper names, generics and any names that could be applicable to a directory would also be great to have, so *pages.tel, *list.tel, etc.

Also, if people are planning on using this as the new phone number, then I would say readability is an important test for the usefulness of a dot-tel. I don't think numbers in a dot-tel name are valuable, but like anything else, I am sure there are a few that are worthwhile.

 

[hasseily]

Okay regarding SEO...
I thought someone mentioned 5 or 10 pages back if anyone could point at .tel domains being ranked at all in big searches.

Well I know a search for "henri" is stupid, but it's pretty big (67 million hits on google.com, 45 million on google UK). My personal henri.tel is now #23 on google.com and #9 on Google UK.

Now I do have an advantage over you guys in that henri.tel has been out there longer, which shows how much value Google puts in the age of a domain/page and the domain name itself.

But it's still fun to see henri.tel in there, along with Matisse, Becquerel and Cartier Bresson.

 

[mis_chiff]

FreakySteve,
Please don't ask people to post their "Domains with Numbers"
or any other domains in this thread.

This is for the discussion of development for .Tel
Not a showcase thread or Self Promotion thread.

Let's keep it on track for those that are here for development advances
and issues.
Thanks,
Wendy

 

[buyauthority]

Thank you Wendy. I was wondering where we were going with this one.

 

[dottelads.com]

3 letter .tels

been doing a little research on other tlds and would appear for most all 3 letter (ok excluding the obviously useless combos) are already registered.

theres still plenty of 3 letter .tels available, any views on whether its only a matter of time before these are gone and worthwhile stocking up on a few more?

 

[buyauthority]

theres still plenty of 3 letter .tels available, any views on whether its only a matter of time before these are gone and worthwhile stocking up on a few more?

Stocking up for the winter. :santa:

Actually the best 3letters are gone and whats left are letters that needs a home and if you can make sense of them its a sure bet. I'd give it until next pay day for it all to be gone. They're just waiting on the next check.

 

[MattheP]

Henri, is there a way to add the graphical menu rather than plain text? I look at developper forum on telnic but did not found any infos.

I didnt know you can store graphics into dns records

 

[dottelads.com]

no graphics... only links out to a graphic hosted on another tld.

are you refering to the proxy page you see?

 

[FreakySteve]

FreakySteve,
Please don't ask people to post their "Domains with Numbers"
or any other domains in this thread.

This is for the discussion of development for .Tel
Not a showcase thread or Self Promotion thread.

Let's keep it on track for those that are here for development advances
and issues.
Thanks,
Wendy

I do prefer development convos anyway
:kickass:

I thought the showcase thread got merged into this one. I have also seen other dot-tel threads get merged into this one.
Is "The Official .tel Discussion Thread" now the "Development for .Tel" thread?

I would like to stay on topic :gl:

 

[saucey]

FreakySteve,
Please don't ask people to post their "Domains with Numbers"
or any other domains in this thread.

This is for the discussion of development for .Tel
Not a showcase thread or Self Promotion thread.

Let's keep it on track for those that are here for development advances
and issues.
Thanks,
Wendy

I thought this WAS the showcase thread.... Originally there were 2 threads... The .Tel Showcase thread and The .Tel Discussion thread. One of the Mod's felt that similar info was being posted in BOTH threads so he/she merged the 2 threads together....

 

[GF]

How about instead of just showing off registrations of .TEL's, you all DISCUSS... Or, have you all run out of things to talk about regarding .TEL :red: ?

 

[mis_chiff]

When the showcase thread was merged it did
create confusion - I agree.

The topic is for the Discussion of .tel - now gearing towards
the development. The issues with getting them up and running
have been more than covered in the beginning of the thread

When you asked for people to post their short and numbered
.tel - the first response wasn't either - so rather than pages
of domains making it difficult to navigate, we'll keep it focused
moving forward.

saucey, the showcase thread turned into a discussion as well
but not for the regged domains being showcased, I got caught up
in it as well and posted where I shouldn't have. It was hard to
tell what thread we were in.