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?

 

[mis_chiff]

Quality keywords etc. get sales over reg. fee everyday, from Backorder pricing being paid at $50+ to portfolio winners at $100-500+

Lots of buying and selling going on with the recent wave of 3-year drops, portfolio grabs, and rearrangements.
[spam link removed]

:sold:

ahaha Sorry, can you please provide some stats about these daily sales
and post them here, cause wouldn't it help tokeep pumping it where the action is - oh yeah, there isin't any.

a list of sales would be nice instead of a link to your forum.

 

[Kate]

No recent sales have been recorded at Sedo or DNJ for a long time, which is hardly surprising. If sales are taking place, they must not be meeting the reporting threshold.

 

[mwzd]

I can't sell any of my .tel domains, maybe it's just the keywords I have, though these would have been an easy sell in most other gtlds.

There have been a few reported sales for .tel, here they are:

Domain TLD SalePrice SaleDate SaleThru Source
MNet tel $1,000 Jun 11 Sedo Sedo
Visit tel $1,000 Jan 11 Sedo Sedo
Brokers tel $600 Dec 10 Sedo Sedo
TelChina tel $4,992 Sep 10 Sedo DNJournal
Marketing tel $1,259 Oct 09 Sedo Auction Sedo
ExpertsComptables tel $298 Oct 09 Sedo Auction Sedo
Erie tel $100 Oct 09 Sedo Auction Sedo
Mall tel $220 Oct 09 Sedo Auction Sedo
Spanien tel $116 Oct 09 Sedo Auction Sedo
SexToys tel $300 Sep 09 Sedo Auction Sedo
BountyHunter tel $150 Aug 09 Sedo Auction Sedo
Pickups tel $1,415 Aug 09 Sedo Auction Sedo
Alaska tel $1,050 Aug 09 Sedo Auction Sedo
Fishing tel $410 Aug 09 Sedo Auction Sedo
Gigolo tel $210 Aug 09 Sedo Auction Sedo
SeitenSprung tel $2,135 Jul 09 Sedo Auction Sedo
Maxi tel $139 Jul 09 Sedo Auction Sedo
Storage tel $3,950 Jul 09 Sedo Auction Sedo
Detective tel $113 Jul 09 Sedo Auction Sedo
Edelstein tel $558 Jun 09 Sedo Auction Sedo
Wiseman tel $200 Jun 09 Sedo Auction Sedo
Cop tel $244 Jun 09 Sedo Auction Sedo
RentABike tel $418 Jun 09 Sedo Auction Sedo
Vladislav tel $700 Jun 09 Sedo Sedo
Exit tel $250 Jun 09 Sedo Auction Sedo
Sabine tel $105 Jun 09 Sedo Auction Sedo
Reichelt tel $279 Jun 09 Sedo Auction Sedo
BFC tel $498 Jun 09 Sedo Auction Sedo
Ewert tel $418 May 09 Sedo Auction Sedo
SXX tel $98 May 09 Sedo Auction Sedo
Visit tel $1,000 May 09 Sedo DNJournal
GolfHotels tel $250 May 09 Sedo Auction Sedo
RSC tel $68 May 09 Sedo Auction Sedo
WebDesigner tel $500 May 09 Sedo Auction Sedo
RENZ tel $466 May 09 Sedo Auction Sedo
Asian tel $750 Apr 09 Sedo Auction Sedo
Maderas tel $132 Apr 09 Sedo Auction Sedo
Ohio tel $1,000 Apr 09 Sedo Auction Sedo
SabaDell tel $259 Apr 09 Sedo Auction Sedo
KARI tel $388 Apr 09 Sedo Auction Sedo
Tarragona tel $1,161 Apr 09 Sedo DNJournal
EscortDirectory tel $314 Apr 09 Sedo Auction Sedo
Lesbian tel $1,000 Apr 09 Sedo Auction Sedo
Leverkusen tel $132 Apr 09 Sedo Auction Sedo
CarShop tel $93 Apr 09 Sedo Auction Sedo
Impresoras tel $81 Apr 09 Sedo Auction Sedo
Pornos tel $320 Apr 09 Sedo Auction Sedo
Hire tel $3,000 Apr 09 Sedo Auction Sedo
PhoneShop tel $146 Apr 09 Sedo Auction Sedo

 

[mis_chiff]

Thanks mwzd for posting those,
sucks they are all old though - June /11 last reported.

I'm sure there are sales happening somewhere... [cough]

 

[Kate]

I'm sure there are sales happening somewhere... [cough]

As you can see, the average prices are quite low. High risk low reward.

 

[tel-buy.com]

ahaha Sorry, can you please provide some stats about these daily sales
and post them here, cause wouldn't it help tokeep pumping it where the action is - oh yeah, there isin't any.

a list of sales would be nice instead of a link to your forum.

Not Spam, an answer to a member question.
Not My forum, I have no idea whose it is.
FACTS are stated above, Sorry To Burst your bubble.
The only problem is you, or there isin't any, or isn't any.

:p

 

[mwzd]

Is there a way to add custom code to the .tel page?

I think a click to call addition would leapfrog the usage quite a bit.

Or maybe not, but worth a try in any case.

 

[mis_chiff]

Not Spam, an answer to a member question.
Not My forum, I have no idea whose it is.
FACTS are stated above, Sorry To Burst your bubble.
The only problem is you, or there isin't any, or isn't any.

:p

no problem here bud, and no bubble bursting either...sorry

Couldn't see any question ...

 

[wot]

Telnic have locked up their forum.

Instead (self promotion removed) has opened.

No association to you?

Great though is it not. A .tel forum on a .org! Says it all.

 

[tel-buy.com]

This isn't a forum.

forum - an assembly, meeting place, etc., for the discussion of questions of public interest.

It is a Nazi board.

nazi - a person who is fanatically dedicated to or seeks to control a specified activity, practice, etc.


Good bye Nazi board, you have no value to the public interest.

:wave:

 

[Ms Domainer]

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Some people just can't see the truth for what it is.

.tel has had three years to promote and develop itself, and it has failed.

.tel's locked forum does not bode well for telnic. A thriving company does not need to censor its members...

As many of you know, I was a great proponent of .tel (just flip backwards in this thread, and you'll see rah, rah, rah), but there comes a time when one must face facts (and, in my case, eat crow--yum!).

An expensive, but well-learned lesson.

Sad, but true: .tel is simply a hint of what's to come in the great vanity gTLD onslaught to come.

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[Kate]

koolaid.tel is available

By the way, great marketing from the cult followers
http://web.archive.org/web/20100426...rs.com/2009/03/rip-dot-com-we-barely-knew-ye/
The dotcom killer is hosted on a dotcom, go figure lol.

 

[chader144]

StarStar.co / StarStar.me
What Telnic should have been... sigh

* Ring your phone
* Automatically send message to callers when you're
busy (e.g. "I'm in a meeting", "I'm driving")
* Send callers your contact info

 

[Steven]

koolaid.tel is available

By the way, great marketing from the cult followers
http://web.archive.org/web/20100426...rs.com/2009/03/rip-dot-com-we-barely-knew-ye/
The dotcom killer is hosted on a dotcom, go figure lol.

lol

 

[-EM-]

Just pure curiosity, any one got his name .tel, or his name first letters .tel?
I was interested in getting my name first letters (a LL.tel), but it was taken from someone who has the same first letters as my name :lol:

 

[HappyDay]

I got my last name in 2009 and dropped it after a year because nobody from my family was really interested in it.

Btw: uhren.tel (watches) sold for 800 EUR not long ago as far as I know

 

[tkstark]

Just pure curiosity, any one got his name .tel, or his name first letters .tel?
I was interested in getting my name first letters (a LL.tel), but it was taken from someone who has the same first letters as my name :lol:

I got my name (first and last names) and my initials (three letters) back when they first came out. Let the initials drop. I use the name.tel for my email address. I was taken aback earlier this year, however, when I bought a laptop at BestBuy. The guy tried to enter my email address into their computer system, and the system didn't recognize the TLD and wouldn't accept it. First time I ever had that happen.

 

[Domain Tiger]

It looks like that new initiatives like TELNAMES and TELTALK attract new customers for .TEL

 

[Domain Tiger]

With the offer from Telnames .tel is becoming the first domain extension for end users, but without value for domain investors.

Hence you will find only small businesses on .tel, but no parking pages.

Telnames is starting its worldwide marketing next months.

 

[mis_chiff]

So they soak a bunch of unsuspecting buyers with the hype of a GREAT platform
and flop

now almost 4 years later they send you to try to hype it up again LOL

and small business on .tel LOL that's even funnier than the sad attempt at a comeback

and it's not interactive with users so it's pretty much an unlooked at Billboard

 

[Steven]

Must... refrain... from... replying... this... time...

 

[Domain Tiger]

and it's not interactive with users

Starting a phone call on mobiles is not interactive?

Don't you know the main purpose of cell phones?

 

[-Adam-]

Hence you will find only small businesses on .tel, but no parking pages.

Small businesses make mistakes too.

 

[mis_chiff]

Starting a phone call on mobiles is not interactive?

Don't you know the main purpose of cell phones?

Starting a phone call on my mobile is interactive by ME
not my users.


and of course I know the purpose of a cell phone...

but I don't need a .tel to dial my number, oh right - they don't

do you know what an "interactive" site is?

PS: What is your interactive .tel? feel free to PM it to me

 

[Ms Domainer]

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Cannot comment due to crow feathers stuck in my throat.

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