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?

 

[DanB]

Hi, not sure if it has been addressed, but I'd like to know how easy is to flip a .tel, I mean, technicly. What I'd like to know is: if I reg a .tel today at Dynadot or Moniker, can I transfer it to someone else (a buyer) in the next few days just like a .com? Is there any restrictions?
Thanks in advance -

 

[chader144]

Justin Hayward discussing .Tel marketing plan would be greatly appreciated by all of us in this forum.

Justin I'm sure you are busy but could you drop us a note on a marketing plan by Telnic.

Thanks in advance, by the way I do own quite a few .Tel domains...

@AlienCafe
Last I heard on twitter he was on his way to Mexico...

I believe you should be able to sell them the same as .com's ...
check on TelNic.org Community that should answer some of the questions people are asking here.

 

[MicroGuy]

@AlienCafe
Last I heard on twitter he was on his way to Mexico...

Fleeing to Mexico? Hopefully it wasn't this thread that pushed him over the edge.

 

[plaggypig]

Fleeing to Mexico? Hopefully it wasn't this thread that pushed him over the edge.

:lol: Comeback of the month!

 

[TechZone]

Anyone have an idea when we will be able to 1) access relevant WhoIs info on the .Tel domains and 2) Be able to start administering each of the .Tel domains (set them up with the desired info).

 

[plaggypig]

Anyone have an idea when we will be able to 1) access relevant WhoIs info on the .Tel domains and 2) Be able to start administering each of the .Tel domains (set them up with the desired info).

See here

 

[Domainate.com]

Hi, not sure if it has been addressed, but I'd like to know how easy is to flip a .tel, I mean, technicly. What I'd like to know is: if I reg a .tel today at Dynadot or Moniker, can I transfer it to someone else (a buyer) in the next few days just like a .com? Is there any restrictions?
Thanks in advance -

I'm pretty sure any registrar like Moniker where you can do an account push, you would be able to do that for a .tel domain. Even obscure ccTLD domains that can't be transferred can be pushed to another account at the same registrar if it's at a registrar that does account pushes (Moniker, GoDaddy, iDotz, etc.).

Transfer is a whole 'nother story though - I'm sure they'd have that information around somewhere.

 

[Ms Domainer]

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Here is something that would really launch .tel into the stratoshpere:

If .tel became the "default" TLD for mobile phones.

For example, type in "vip," hit "send" (or the purple .tel button that could start appearing on mobile phones), and automatically be directed to vip.tel.

Could it happen?

:? :? :?

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[Steven]

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Here is something that would really launch .tel into the stratoshpere:

If .tel became the "default" TLD for mobile phones.

For example, type in "vip," hit "send" (or the purple .tel button that could start appearing on mobile phones), and automatically be directed to vip.tel.

Could it happen?

:? :? :?

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No

Sorry

Some people were also expecting that to happen with .mobi

 

[kukgle]

Mobi has not provided API toolkit as TelNic do. TelNic focus on their strengths and push it harder.

For me, if it failed with .MOBI, I would love to see if it can done withh .TEL.

 

[Ms Domainer]

No

Sorry

Some people were also expecting that to happen with .mobi

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It could have happened with .mobi.

But, then, the dot-mobi people got greedy and a bad rep. These people thought short term (make as much money as possible and forget about the future. IMHO.)

If I were the mobile companies, I wouldn't give mobi the time of day, either.

I don't know if it will happen with .tel; but if Telnic plays its cards right and thinks about future infrastructive, it could be something that benefits everyone.

I haven't based my plans on such a thing, however. I was simply daydreaming about possibilties.



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[Steven]

.mobi has been provided with a lot of the dev tools.

Think about it...
It just wouldn't make any sense to do so for any cell phone providers

So I type in "flower" and gets redirected to flower.tel
It'll give me some flower shop contact and number that is irrelevant to me.

First of all, .tel is not owned by a power directory provider like superpages.com or yellowpages.com where the directory information provided is reliable and relevant.

Each .tel domain is registered by an individual person and its contents are up to that individual to put in and modify.

 

[phase111]

.mobi has been provided with a lot of the dev tools.

Think about it...
It just wouldn't make any sense to do so for any cell phone providers

So I type in "flower" and gets redirected to flower.tel
It'll give me some flower shop contact and number that is irrelevant to me.

First of all, .tel is not owned by a power directory provider like superpages.com or yellowpages.com where the directory information provided is reliable and relevant.

Each .tel domain is registered by an individual person and its contents are up to that individual to put in and modify.

This is a valid point...I think .tel will need to have some way around this if it wants people to use its telpages to find relevant info. Im guessing it would come down to the way it organises the directory so that you could find a domain within a category that is geo related to where you live for example and it would exclude all others. Something Im sure will be resolved but would be interesting to here from telnic on this aspect.

 

[hullswingerscom]

So I type in "flower" and gets redirected to flower.tel


this would be great for selling chickens as well maybe, a big chicken button on your mobile....that makes a chicken sound when you press

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OTFopY-o7g

has anyone got there name or town/city

 

[gilescoley]

some good info you may or may not have seen


http://www.aboutdottel.com/tag/tel-domain/

 

[plaggypig]

There is already client software for the iPhone and Blackberry (available on the Telnic website). There are also other libraries and applications being developed now by other people. As .tel permeates the public consciousness then users will start finding these applications, and they'll become must-haves, IMO.

I don't think it's likely that mobile devices will ship with .tel functionality, because Telnic (or somebody else) would have to pay a fortune to the mobile device manufacturers - just as certificate authorities/search engines have to pay browser vendors for inclusion. I could be wrong though, because if carriers start getting heavily interested in .tel then they'd have leverage over the manufacturers.

The best we could hope for in 2009 would be to see one of those Apple commercials showcasing the My .tel app.. how cool would that be?

This is all just wild speculation though.

I don't want to deviate from topic, but I have to say that it makes me cringe to see people blaming the failure of .mobi on the registry and still fail to appreciate that the TLD itself was utterly pointless, even dangerous, as it undermines some of the core principles of the web. It worries me that the domaining community (from top to bottom) just doesn't seem to get this, and that there seems to be some belief that it is somehow comparable with .tel - apples and oranges! [/rant]

 

[tech4]

If people start using the internet with their cell phone. Maybe dot tel will take off.
Otherwise I see people using the internet with their computers and probably could get the same information on the www.

If you type in dsl on search engine a lot of links with product descriptions, offers, phone numbers, side by side for comparison. With dot tel. I doubt you can have quality and quantity with dot tel.

 

[plaggypig]

If people start using the internet with their cell phone. Maybe dot tel will take off.
Otherwise I see people using the internet with their computers and probably could get the same information on the www.

Japan is ahead of the game - there more people access the Internet through their mobiles than from desktops, but the rest of the world is definitely on a similar trajectory.

If you type in dsl on search engine a lot of links with product descriptions, offers, phone numbers, side by side for comparison. With dot tel. I doubt you can have quality and quantity with dot tel.

If you're saying that .tel doesn't cover the same breadth of information as a contemporary web page, then you'd be right, but that is of course the whole point - .tel is a semantic and distributed platform for contact information.

Having said that, you could of course include some brief product descriptions, pricing, promotional offers, etc. in free text form, if it's suitable for your particular service.

One of my predictions is that other services (including search engines) might pull down .tel records to make their own representations richer.

 

[tech4]

You must mean that japan has more cell phone subscription than anywhere in the world. But that does not mean people prefer to use their cell phone for the internet or the actual usage on cell is more frequent than that on a computer.

Internet from the cell phone is dialup speed, and the keypads or touchscreen is not suitable for surfing. For example if you go on a cellphone to namepros it would take take you 10-20 seconds to connect to web, another 10-20 seconds to type in namepros.m, and you have to scroll down which is another so 10-20 seconds. Loading time is also very slow.

It would be interesting to find out what people actually use cell phones to go on internet for. But I would guess at best emails for those traveling. Otherwise, they do not need to go on cell phone for internet if they are at home.

If you logically think about it, dsl is a great example, or movies. With dot tel available how many clicks would it take to get all the information you want? And would you have the information you want from dot tel?

I doubt it.

 

[plaggypig]

You must mean that japan has more cell phone subscription than anywhere in the world. But that does not mean people prefer to use their cell phone for the internet or the actual usage on cell is more frequent than that on a computer.

No, I'm talking about actual usage. Of course, Japan is culturally very unique and there is a debate as to whether it would serve as a blueprint for the rest of the world.

Internet from the cell phone is dialup speed

I agree that GPRS is more or less useless, but 3G isn't (though latency is still an issue.. and as I've said previously, .tel's distribution through DNS will be a killer feature exactly because of this).

and the keypads or touchscreen is not suitable for surfing.

True to an extent, but I think significant progress is being made in this area.