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]

Unexpected! Difficult to see any commercial use, but a nice name: I will call you in time of EXTREME emergency!

If you do call, you'll soon discover that there's nobody home. The domain is still available for registration.

 

[Tribulatio]

If you do call, you'll soon discover that there's nobody home. The domain is still available for registration.

Thank you for the info - otherwise I might believe the Rapture has already happened!

 

[Sconzo]

I'm a newbie enjoying your posts enormously. I've bought two .tel's and hope to nail several more, related ones, at GA.

Here's my concern: It's up to us early adopters to get this whole .tel thing jump-started. Yes, Telnic has to market it as a concept, and I can only hope that they will do so aggressively. (Someone recently thanked Justin for his marketing plan, but I never saw it... IS there one?)

But most importantly, we've got to take very seriously indeed the reaction of the early users of our commerical uses of the domain. If John Doe goes to pizza.tel and finds 6 dumps in Peoria, he won't try any of our other sites in a hurry. We've all got to take responsibility to deliver what people want to find; otherwise we for-profit "yellow-pagers" won't get anywhere with our paid-for listings and this thing will revert to the sweet but innocuous (and NOT monetized) personal "me finder" that is the core of Telnic's pitch. Yes?

I wonder if the apparently ill-fated .mobi users (I know nothing, I just see you're all disillusioned with that) ever banded together to create voluntary standards for the good of the TLD? Should WE??!?

 

[plaggypig]

Here's an interview with Justin Hayward at ICANN (34) Mexico.

 

[chader144]

@Sconzo I think http://www.telsters.com/ is a group trying do just that. Make a community and form organization around .tel

 

[Sconzo]

Here's an interview with Justin Hayward at ICANN (34) Mexico.

@Sconzo I think http://www.telsters.com/ is a group trying do just that. Make a community and form organization around .tel

Fantastic! Thanks to you both!

 

[Jeff]

I wonder if the apparently ill-fated .mobi users (I know nothing, I just see you're all disillusioned with that) ever banded together to create voluntary standards for the good of the TLD? Should WE??!?

Interesting post for a newbie, IMHO ... I think so many were seeing GREEN (including mTLD!) that they dropped the ball on actually ensuring the development of stand-alone .MOBI websites - at the expense and to the fatal detriment of the once critical developed .MOBI "ecosystem"! :o "imho:

Hopefully, a valuable lesson learned for Telnic, its investors, and the highly brandable .TEL, IMHO. :gl:

Just my two sense.
-Jeff

 

[saucey]

When will the Whois show the registrations??? Aaaargh!!!

 

[morganga]

I wonder if we'll have a problem with users navigating to
www.pizza.tel instead of pizza.tel

If the www folder doesn't exist they'll get a page not found.
I'm not sure if it's legal to create a non terminal NAPTR record to point www to @.
Otherwise we'll all have to put in a manual redirect link in the www folder.

If telnic relax the limitaions imposed on the domain, this may be the ideal place to allow an A record in the DNS.

Thoughts?

 

[virtualhunter]

I wanted to have your thoughts on a: "Dot TEL" specific Aftermarket.
Like: who can control it, or what are premium dot TEL gonna sell for?
Etc.
Thanks.

 

[Ms Domainer]

I wanted to have your thoughts on a: "Dot TEL" specific Aftermarket.
Like: who can control it, or what are premium dot TEL gonna sell for?
Etc.
Thanks.

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At this point, I would say that worth of premium .tels are unknown.

Perhaps the pemium price of $350-375?

Those of us who have .tels will be able to sell them like other TLDs.

Will they sell on Sedo and Afternic?

Maybe.

I doubt if any one company will control the aftermarket.

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[plaggypig]

When will the Whois show the registrations??? Aaaargh!!!

Patience saucey.. nearly there

 

[kukgle]

Patience saucey.. nearly there

As premised, we would see it within next 24 hours

 

[NathanJacob]

Yup!!! Within the next 24 hours... Here is some info on the same....

http://telnic.org/community-landing.html :blink: :blink:

Cheers

 

[plaggypig]

As premised, we would see it within next 24 hours

That's their goal, but I don't believe it's set in stone - technically the cut-off date is GA (March 24th). I'm as anxious as anyone, but I just want to make sure that our expectations are set

 

[Billy2009]

I wonder if we'll have a problem with users navigating to
www.pizza.tel instead of pizza.tel

If the www folder doesn't exist they'll get a page not found.
I'm not sure if it's legal to create a non terminal NAPTR record to point www to @.
Otherwise we'll all have to put in a manual redirect link in the www folder.

If telnic relax the limitaions imposed on the domain, this may be the ideal place to allow an A record in the DNS.

Thoughts?

Hi, I raised this very issue a few days ago on dottel.blogspot.com and in Telsters and a Telnic staffer explained they are working on this issue by using some kind of redirect. I regard this as absolutely critical to .tel's success because people will just give up trying to find the .tel if they can't get to it with www. Cheers.

 

[phase111]

*

At this point, I would say that worth of premium .tels are unknown.

Perhaps the pemium price of $350-375?

Those of us who have .tels will be able to sell them like other TLDs.

Will they sell on Sedo and Afternic?

Maybe.

I doubt if any one company will control the aftermarket.

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Always a difficult call for a new tld, especially such a revolutionary one... super premium domains I think will be worth thousands though rather than hundreds. It's abit of a wait and see deal at the mo though of course.

 

[steveteva]

Always a difficult call for a new tld, especially such a revolutionary one... super premium domains I think will be worth thousands though rather than hundreds. It's abit of a wait and see deal at the mo though of course.

Geo ones will worth $10 000 and over...

It's easy to know what it worth, it worth what people are ready to pay.

Sell me newyork.tel or hotel.tel or california.tel ... I take $10 000 for each?

YES :talk:

 

[phase111]

Geo ones will worth $10 000 and over...

It's easy to know what it worth, it worth what people are ready to pay.

Sell me newyork.tel or hotel.tel or california.tel ... I take $10 000 for each?

YES :talk:

I'd happily back you up on that thought (especially seeing as I have two geos- though not quite the ones you mention unfortunately lol).

 

[hasseily]

people will just give up trying to find the .tel if they can't get to it with www. Cheers.

They can.

"A" records for domain.tel and www.domain.tel are autoprovisioned.
Check it out with henri.tel, justin.tel, etc...