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?

 

[MicroGuy]

Where would it go?

That's a loaded question. Lol.

 

[mactel]

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Hi Stefan,
I understand, but Google will have to be able to read:

malibu.losangeles.ca.plumbers.tel

as:

plumberjoe.plumbers.tel

Google will have to read the name of the .tel subdomain, according to whatever label you choose for malibu.losangeles.ca.plumbers.tel :

And that is:

anyname.plumbers.tel

Thank you.
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Edit:

Because "anyname.plumbers.tel" is stored directly in the DNS:

The sub-information of of "anyname.plumbers.tel", can be sub-stored as:

malibu.losangeles.ca.plumbers.tel

That is why Google gets fed with "anyname.plumbers.tel", but then fetches:
"malibu.losangeles.ca.plumbers.tel"
and delivers you the output according to that name with all its strings.

And that should be able to be achieved, in my opinion.

So you won't have to feed google manually with the whole long subdomin name: Google will get it for you, and deliver the biggest output, according to all of those keywords.
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Yes Mactel, to keep it simple with your plumberjoe example: You are right that if you try to easily remember the contact page for plumberjoe, the main aim would be to have something like plumberjoe.plumbers.tel, or just plumberjoe.tel
but for a search by a potential client on Google it might be better to have it as
malibu.losangeles.ca.plumbers.tel
Regarding my domaining activities, my interest in .tel is mainly that I invested in a few hundered .tel domains and developed some of them for me and some of my friends. My overall impression on .tel is that there has been slow, steady and significant progress and that during the next few years people will slowly realize that .tel is a good idea.

 

[hasseily]

Why are you guys complicating things? You can have the best of both worlds regarding malibu.losangeles.ca.plumbers.tel and plumberjoe.plumbers.tel.

Let's say you've got Mr. Plumber Joe, who's a malibu plumber. You'd like him to be accessible through a search "malibu plumbers" or "los angeles plumbers", as well as through "joe plumber" or even "water heater repair".

First, you create the subdomain for Joe Plumber: joe-plumber.plumbers.tel (ideally, you'd sell him his own .tel domain).
Then, you create the directories such that you can have malibu.losangeles.ca.plumbers.tel as well as water-heater.repair.plumber.tel
Inside both of those directories you point to joe-plumber.plumbers.tel.

The Google algos will take care of linking "Joe Plumber" to water heater repair as well as malibu plumbers. Furthermore, Joe's information is centralized in his own subdomain, which you can then tell him to upgrade to his own domain (further improving his SEO).

 

[mactel]

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Thank you, for your comment, Henry.

Could Telnic provide the telsters who are experimenting with .tel directories, with a script to set up a commercial .tel directory on a website?
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[DubDubDubDot]

Where would it go?

Domain Newbies

I would say delete it, but my post count would be cut in half.

 

[stefanb]

Thanks for the guidance Henry. It makes sense and now things are very clear....

 

[TechZone]

A bit off subject, I own Cellular.tel and had populated it with some basic links a few months ago and have not touched it since. I was curious today and Googled: cellular tel, without quotes or "and" (tel would be a very relevant and related search term given the main word). I was pleasantly surprised to see that the result was that Cellular.tel has made it up to page one, position 6 for this extremely competitive name. For what it's worth.

 

[liming]

I don't think .tel will take off this year.
I think it will boom between 2011 - 2013.

 

[Kate]

I don't think .tel will take off this year.
I think it will boom between 2011 - 2013.

2012 will be the year of the landrush drops.
How many do you think will be dropped at the end of the 3-year term ?
Taking bets.

 

[MicroGuy]

I think it will boom between 2011 - 2013.

I think it will be more like 2060 - 2065. IMO.

 

[plaggypig]

Um, it's still 2009 people.

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Listening to Vancouver's News1130 radio - .tel commercials start running today.

 

[mactel]

As I concluded:
The mainstream won't have .tel domains, but they will try to take advantage of those .tel names, that are listed in directories.

A mainstream user will be able to keep one or two .tel names in his memory.
And the might have five other .tel names saved/stored on his mobile phone.

To find other .tel names, he will either have use a .tel search engine, or a .tel directory.

Telsters, investors in .tel, and .tel owners, etc., where hoping, that .tel would take off, as soon as possible.

Let us make a szenarion, and say: we expect .tel to take off in three months:
I just said, that the mainstream would use .tel, provided, that he can find "any.tel" that is available, within reasonable time.
So: according to the szenarion we would need all the following set up and working in two or theree months:

1.) telpages
2.) a few good .tel directories, that are easy to use, and give a nice experience

- Otherwhise: how should the dot tel domain be able to take off, if potential .tel users don't know where, and how to find .tel names?

It will be not enough, if the meanstream knows about the dot tel domain:
He will have to know, where all those registered .tel names are, and how he can find them, respectively, retrieve them and display them.

And then, after, it is simple: just "click2call".

But from just beeing aware, that .tel exists, till he can "click2call", there are a few steps inbetween... - and that has got be solved, so that .tel is able to "take off".

Telnic and the telstere have to make it happen, ore else, it won't happen.
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Ore else, only a bunch of telsters, and a few small businesses will be using .tel.
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But not the mainstream.
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[mis_chiff]

Here is a thought!

Telnic and the telstere have to make it happen, ore else, it won't happen.

Did you see this mactel?

*PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT*

Ladies and gents, please do *NOT* post questions to the Telnic team on this thread, it's become impossible for us to distinguish them from commentaries, opinions and other types of discussions.

You can use the Telnic forum on telnic.org for this, and if they're developer issues, the Telnic Dev forum on dev.telnic org. Thanks!

Henri
the other Telnic guy.

 

[DubDubDubDot]

I own Cellular.tel
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I was pleasantly surprised to see that the result was that Cellular.tel has made it up to page one, position 6 for this extremely competitive name.

There is nothing competitive about something that nobody is searching for.

cellular tel = "Not enough data"

"cellular" on the other hand gets searches, but you do not rank in the top 1,000 positions.

 

[semohi]

Here's my latest video for the myspace type crowd. Check it out.

How to be a player
YouTube - How to Be a Player - True Playa - with .Tel

 

[Steven]

Here's my latest video for the myspace type crowd. Check it out.

How to be a player
YouTube - How to Be a Player - True Playa - with .Tel

Nice video

 

[plaggypig]

Here's my latest video for the myspace type crowd. Check it out.

How to be a player
YouTube - How to Be a Player - True Playa - with .Tel

Nice work man

 

[brendan52190]

Here's my latest video for the myspace type crowd. Check it out.

How to be a player
YouTube - How to Be a Player - True Playa - with .Tel

LOL that's awesome. :kickass:

 

[Jawed]

Here's my latest video for the myspace type crowd. Check it out.

How to be a player
YouTube - How to Be a Player - True Playa - with .Tel

Excellent work!

 

[plaggypig]

Check out Webnames' "We're not the New Yorker" caption competition for their beautiful cartoon style .tel advert


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