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?

 

[Ader]

Google is page ranking TELs , promoting dot tel =2, kprobe dot tel =3, henri dot tel =5 justin dot tel =5 tans dot tel =2

Thanks for pointing this out. I have checked Google Rank for my sites. Most have no rank, which is hardly surprising at this early stage. However a couple have rankings of 1 and 2, although I don't know how, with so little development (if I'm allowed use that word)
Best result is a ranking of 4 for a phone numbers related site. This is not a boast, but hopefully encouragement for supporters of dot tel.

 

[gkjunior]

The only difference is username.tel vs socialsite.com/username. As I have said before, this isn't enough to make the masses fork over money. There has to be something great about the .tel service itslef, but as of right now it's lackluster.


We've gone over this too. In 2003 the issue of mobile compatibility was problematic and nobody knew how to handle it aside from creating an entirely separate site that worked on PDA's (that is how .mobi was born in fact). Nowadays mobile compatibility is a non-issue using alternative style sheets.


Never happen. Anyone looking at this from a developer's perspective can list many reasons why. The primary one being that the webmaster doesn't even have control over their own user's ability to login.


matt.net $2,400 2008-12-06
john.com $21,500 2007-02-23
andrew.de $415 2009-01-01
pete.com $18,000 2008-12-24
peter.cz $395 2008-03-18

There is no way .tel is going into .com or .net territory.

I think making statements like "never happen" or " no way " could appear to be short sighted or coming from someone who is either relatively young or inexperienced and has very little respect for what histories lessons have been so far.

In the future it’s quite possible you will have to register at name pros under another alias. But.... maybe not.

 

[plaggypig]

The only difference is username.tel vs socialsite.com/username.

.tel isn't competing with social networking sites.

We've gone over this too. In 2003 the issue of mobile compatibility was problematic and nobody knew how to handle it aside from creating an entirely separate site that worked on PDA's (that is how .mobi was born in fact). Nowadays mobile compatibility is a non-issue using alternative style sheets.

Haven't followed the thread close enough to understand why you would mention this, but user-agent sniffing was possible at least a decade prior to 2003, since some early implementations of http 0.9 I believe. But in the case of .tel you should really try and avoid the web completely (from mobile devices especially) and use applications that fetch data directly from DNS.

Never happen. Anyone looking at this from a developer's perspective can list many reasons why. The primary one being that the webmaster doesn't even have control over their own user's ability to login.

Such conviction! I am a developer, and it is possible to add OpenID delegation to the .tel web proxy. This has been suggested by myself and others, and Telnic are keeping it under consideration.

What exactly makes you think .tel can match the .com in revenue?

If it achieves its stated ambition of becoming widely accepted then why shouldn't commercial directory models be viable? And in that case, what magical law of the universe would prevent foo.tel from being as competitive or profitable as foo.com?

 

[dottelads.com]

believe .tel will come into its own when we start seeing phones ship with the apps preinstalled and when features like dialing or sms'ing a .tel go live (yes they are apparently coming soon!)

 

[RicoShay]

Strange... but true, out of all the domains/extensions I hold, I've sold more .tel's than anything else (in the last month). Ok, not a big deal, but sold an LLL for $450 (after fees) a few days ago (awaiting payment to clear), got a bid on another LLL for $100 and just got one more into auction at sedo for about $490 after some negotiating.

Doesn't prove or disprove anyones theories, but it sure makes me happy. If all these sales go through then that's 30% of my .tel portfolio sold (3 out of 10 lol)... and not a bad ROI either.

 

[rupert]

Very good!

How are your buyers contacting you?
Are they just making offers through Sedo?

 

[steveteva]

Strange... but true, out of all the domains/extensions I hold, I've sold more .tel's than anything else (in the last month). Ok, not a big deal, but sold an LLL for $450 (after fees) a few days ago (awaiting payment to clear), got a bid on another LLL for $100 and just got one more into auction at sedo for about $490 after some negotiating.

Doesn't prove or disprove anyones theories, but it sure makes me happy. If all these sales go through then that's 30% of my .tel portfolio sold (3 out of 10 lol)... and not a bad ROI either.

Did you featured on Sedo? because you're a lucky guy, many here have LLL.tel but didn't sell yet.

 

[RicoShay]

Strange... but true, out of all the domains/extensions I hold, I've sold more .tel's than anything else (in the last month). Ok, not a big deal, but sold an LLL for $450 (after fees) a few days ago (awaiting payment to clear), got a bid on another LLL for $100 and just got one more into auction at sedo for about $490 after some negotiating.

Doesn't prove or disprove anyones theories, but it sure makes me happy. If all these sales go through then that's 30% of my .tel portfolio sold (3 out of 10 lol)... and not a bad ROI either.

Did you featured on Sedo? because you're a lucky guy, many here have LLL.tel but didn't sell yet.

No I didn't feature anything, just got really lucky I suppose.

I was thinking about featuring the actual auction for the one in my sig - but I can't even figure out how to do that (any pointers would be much appreciated). I'm not too fussed though, I'll be happy with whatever the outcome - I took the negotiations up to more than what I wanted anyway.

 

[steveteva]

No I didn't feature anything, just got really lucky I suppose.

I was thinking about featuring the actual auction for the one in my sig - but I can't even figure out how to do that (any pointers would be much appreciated). I'm not too fussed though, I'll be happy with whatever the outcome - I took the negotiations up to more than what I wanted anyway.

I can understand why you've got a bid as B F C is famous too :

http://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/BFC

 

[kprobe]

Bulk Import Tool

A beta version of the TEL Bulk Import tool is now available at www. populate.tel for anyone to use while it is free! There is also a quick TEL update application there as well.

Hope to get some feedback from you.

Mark

 

[onlinelife]

shedding some light here:
Sold Visit(dot)tel on Sedo last month. Got some offers on other tel names. :cy:

 

[saucey]

shedding some light here:
Sold Visit(dot)tel on Sedo last month. Got some offers on other tel names. :cy:

Good for you!

Are you getting offers from Sedo, or Namepros, or private.. or ???

Cheers!

 

[onlinelife]

Good for you!

Are you getting offers from Sedo, or Namepros, or private.. or ???

Cheers!

Thanks, Yup, from offers coming from sedo!

(saucey, your avatar is alienlized lol)

 

[plaggypig]

Latest update of .tel control panel supports MX record management in "Settings", allowing you to setup email, i.e. [email protected]. There's also a short tutorial to guide you through setting up a Gmail account using Google Apps.

 

[dobidder]

LLL.tel

Does anyone know how many LLL.tel still available? Can someone run a quick list? Thanks.

 

[gou]

Does anyone know how many LLL.tel still available? Can someone run a quick list? Thanks.

Still over 7,000 left. There's not going to be a buyout any time soon.

 

[WordWalker]

A Little Help From My (Tel) Friends...

I need some suggestions for my TOP 100 LIST from members of the .tel community.

There may even be a Lovely Parting Gift for one especially clever contributor.

Thank you!

 

[steveteva]

Here is one mid-big sale of a german dot tel on SEDO: REICHELT.TEL
Don't know what that means but already have a bid of 200euro

 

[spline]

Here is one mid-big sale of a german dot tel on SEDO: REICHELT.TEL
Don't know what that means but already have a bid of 200euro

I don't think its a word. Its a name used by a store...reichelt elektronik - OnlineShop für PC-Komponenten, Elektronik - Festplatten, Mainboards, Motherboards, Karten, Kabel
:o

 

[Undermoose]

So .Tel - 2 to 3 years before true value is realized, that's what I'm thinking.

I see lots of hype about every new domain, and real estate being what it is, a good piece of the internet is worth something...

So what's it worth?

When .Tel came out I saw how unique it is and dove right in, but I never thought any of them except the really obvious names would be worth much for years. Except the really hard to get very obvious (like winning lotto being able to register them names).

So I see people getting frustrated weeks after acquiring names with lack of resale. Everyone wants a fast buck.

PATIENCE.

Telnic do your job right, get .Tel ingrained in every cell phone rom (you've reserved pure numbers so this is an obvious strategy), and your domainers will be very pleased.