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?

 

[spline]

Macau Yellow Pages First in Asia to Roll out .tel to all Customers

http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/December2010/02/c9835.html

 

[Toni]

Macau Yellow Pages First in Asia to Roll out .tel to all Customers

http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/a.../02/c9835.html

I get a 404.

Link broken..

 

[spline]

Now it should work.

 

[spline]

First Macau Yellow Pages and now this.

WebVisible's small business customers will now also be provided with a .tel domain! Looks like .tel might really take off.

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-rele...timization-and-discoverability-111616024.html

 

[dotker]

is it just me or bing hates tel?

 

[spline]

Must be just you, I have had several first page .tels on Bing.
Not sure if this is for my country.

I also found that they get quite good exposure on google when it comes to the long tail.

And in most cases its the long tail that drives most visitors.

Try search for "itkonsult" on Bing.

My domain itkonsult.tel currently ends up on BOTH first and Second page viewed from Sweden.

 

[SEOjmci]

my first name .tel domain was in the first page, 5th position on google.

 

[cyberonyx]

my first name .tel domain was in the first page, 5th position on google.

whats the firstname?

i see "henri" .tel is 2nd page or 3rd page
for 84million results on the word "henri"

thats the best search result i think so far for a .tel firstname

 

[steveteva]

I reg my geo .tel at sunrise so paid $$ then "invest" on 500+ .tel domains.
After a year I didn't really believe on .tel so I sold all my .tel to a domainer. These .tel were premium or great. I just kept the Geo as it's a pure Geo.
Then couple of years have past, this morning I was still not intersted on .tel but suddently I heard a advertising on my local radio about our national yellow page that was launching a iphone app that enable businesses to be visible on a iphone. These phones comes from their website database. So I download iphone app and make a try. Oh My God:
IT SUCKS. All you get from search results is: name of company nad phone number that can be dialled. That's all!
So compare to .tel I have (not yet launch) I can be a serious competitor It's David against Goliah (I'm david LOL)
All features included (website, facebook, fax, email, map...) will blow away my prospect minds.

Also I only need .tel and no need a website directory with database driven.

So thank you dot tel.

As you see, you must wait for long time and when luck comes you must grab it!

 

[Tia Wood]

So far all I hear is a lot of theories. I still would like to see at least 1 company/individual who has a successful project surrounding the .tel beside Telnic.

 

[steveteva]

So far all I hear is a lot of theories. I still would like to see at least 1 company/individual who has a successful project surrounding the .tel beside Telnic.

Tia, I agree with you. I also have another directory website using database driven and I'm a member of directory sites. Same as .tel hardly members have been sucessful meaning they quit their job for it and make full time living.

But I can confirm that some do have success and make money with it, we usually don't heard them on forums because they don't have time for talking about it as they focus on business first.

It's like telling top fortunes to go on forums or post articles... I only know one who do article, it's virgin galactic founder on entrepreneur.com

To compete with your local yellow page directory either with .tel or website, it's impossible for the United state of America because they are so powerful that even if it's bad looking site, their phone book and brand gives all trust to businesses.

Now in my case it's different I target a GEO not in U.S.A and where the yellow page for mobile devices is crap!

I don't say that I will make money or be successfull but it's a oportunity to do something with my .tel

There is hard hard work to come and money to spend, there are no easy money here.

I must hire someone for prospects, put ads....

 

[Tia Wood]

I don't say that I will make money or be successfull but it's a oportunity to do something with my .tel

There is hard hard work to come and money to spend, there are no easy money here. I must hire someone for prospects, put ads....

Why would you even begin to spend money on something you are only viewing as an 'opportunity'? Potential means nothing. I am not saying you will fail but it almost seems as though you expect yourself to fail with that statement.

If that is the case, why not take your business plan to another extension where you have more development control?

An iphone app is totally different from a .tel and if they do something that expands on their idea (or even yours) then you are severely limited by .tel and won't be able to compete.

Think long term. Don't think in the terms of 'I need something to do with my .tel". If you want something to do with your .tel, watch them drop like flies and invest in an extension that can at least expand and scale in a competitive way later down the road.

 

[Acroplex]

For Christmas and the Holidays, I once again offer a free hug to all .tel investors. Come March & renewal time, they will need it.

 

[fatter]

Should I let dottell.com expire with all those developers out there

 

[Kate]

Should I let dottell.com expire with all those developers out there

dottell != dottel
Don't ask, don't .tel.

 

[hakita]

So far all I hear is a lot of theories. I still would like to see at least 1 company/individual who has a successful project surrounding the .tel beside Telnic.

Hi Tiawood,

As individual, i am happy with my .tel
As a contact entrypoint, .tel perfectly fit my need. it is aloso first in google


AS a professional, i am waiting for a geolocalisation targeting feature that will allow to adapt result to requester location. AS far as i know, this feature rfc is still ongoing....

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A quick site:.tel search seems to show that a huge part of .tel are not english content. This part seems to me more important in .tel that other tld

 

[spline]

I have done some test development on three of my .tels.

Since three months I earn around $10 a month on one of them. Nothing to live from but considering I spent 1 day sparetime on "development" and there are no hosting costs its ok.

It also means I will be able to sell it and get customer to pay for advertisement on it.

 

[Acroplex]

Even the About.me service (just acquired by AOL) is the type of live, editable profile that .tel will never manage to become.

 

[siga]

Acro, with regards to

Even the About.me service (just acquired by AOL) is the type of live, editable profile that .tel will never manage to become.

I disagree with this. Would you mind providing reasons to back up this statement.

With about.me only being 5 days since launch and .tel under 2 years old I can imagine it is hard to compare now or what they will be in the future.
However would you not prefer to own the url for there profile? rather than be using space on anothers url.




With .tel you own your own profile.

 

[Acroplex]

Siga, it's your right to disagree. However, it's been discussed over and over again what real innovation .tel brings to the table.

But here are some crucial points to help you understand my statement: About.me serves the same purpose as .tel - that's because the .tel squad castrated the DNS so that a .tel domain can't be parked or developed.

Therefore, investment in .tel domains is out of the window; the content is mainly personal info, just like the About.me profiles (see the infamous Ben.tel commercial). From the get-go the .tel TLD was promoted as a quick virtual contact card to be viewed on web enabled phones.

Investors (or rather, lemmings) that poured money getting every keyword under the sun soon realized it (year one) and will repeat the feat come March, when thousands of domains will be abandonded.

Meanwhile, About.me is free and can be better customized. But in fact, even BoboTheClownWithRedNose.com would be better than a .tel for that same purpose, on any given day. I brought About.me into the argument because it's a commercial product.