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?

 

[steveteva]

If that doctor really spent $70 000 in dot tel if it's all GEO and Generic than it could be a great investment but he might be one of the early buyer when was landrush because if he bought recently, I'm skeptical about quality of his domain name. Also I've learn in the past: never put all your eggs in the same basket. Maybe he will end like a domain investor company in germany that buy all .de they can at SEDO... spending million dollar so nobody in germany will have .de : you want one? then you have to buy from me

 

[ginggang]

I'm going to put my hands up here and say I am wrong. I think this is legit posting and the names have been regged.

I've found the OP's via the internet and what they have regged. All dictonary keywords, 3 so far I've found which convince me its the OP

I hope the OP will come back and tell us more

 

[aliencafe]

Interesting post by the Doctor. I would be interested to know where he first found out about .Tel and what .Tel names he owns.

I have a good collection of Premiums and Geos, but he Doctors 200 is pretty extensive. To verify the post he could easily tell us a few that he owns and then load up "namepros" or something easy in the DNS to verify that this was not a bogus post.

So Doc, please provide a few .tel names in a post and load them with a keyword to show validity...

As you all know I own www.pills.tel and the rankings keep getting higher in google !

On another note: I'm noticing that this Official .TEL thread is not very old and it is going to quickly surpass .PRO and .ME threads in page views. Does this trend show that there is much more interest in .TEL ? Just an observation.


Thanks, happy Friday!

 

[ginggang]

Interesting post by the Doctor. I would be interested to know where he first found out about .Tel and what .Tel names he owns.

I have a good collection of Premiums and Geos, but he Doctors 200 is pretty extensive. To verify the post he could easily tell us a few that he owns and then load up "namepros" or something easy in the DNS to verify that this was not a bogus post.

So Doc, please provide a few .tel names in a post and load them with a keyword to show validity...

As you all know I own www.pills.tel and the rankings keep getting higher in google !

On another note: I'm noticing that this Official .TEL thread is not very old and it is going to quickly surpass .PRO and .ME threads in page views. Does this trend show that there is much more interest in .TEL ? Just an observation.


Thanks, happy Friday!

I'm not going to post personal information but I am totaly correct in saying that the OP has registered some .tel domains....or some one masquerading as the registrant has posted here :lol:

 

[MicroGuy]

Does this trend show that there is much more interest in .TEL ?

Yes. Everybody loves watching a train wreck. :talk:

 

[kukgle]

After TEL is Live, I think the system should have the statistic for all pages. This such report is mandatory for tracking our dot tel site.

 

[Ms Domainer]

Another last positive observation that I will make about .tel is that the market for traditional websites (.com, etc) with longer names 2 or 3 words is likely to significantly expand if the owners purchased shorter .tel domains that are used in conjunction with this longer domain names- when I bought the shorter .tel and linked it to longer .com sites, I almost felt that the longer .com (or .net) name was not anymore a disadvantage (because you don't have to type the whole name anymore), but can actually contribute additional clarifying information, descriptive detail or a message
If I type jeans.tel and link it to buypremiumjeans.com and click on it, it is probably still quicker than typing in lets say buyjeans.com- and people will quickly realize this advantage- it might seem minor but multiply that with astronomical numbers and you will realize the advantage of a faster technology like .tel...

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This is part of my thinking as well; one is not buying just a contact page but also some great keywords, packed into a GLOBAL TLD. Linking to websites that don't have such great keywords will be a snap.

However, $70,000 is a breathtaking amount of money, about what my husband and I paid for our house 20 years ago; I sincerely hope the investment pays off for OP.

Given that OP is not a domainer, he does not seem to harbor entrenched attitudes/prejudices toward new TLDs that domainers have--he just sees a product that has valid applications for professionals who are weary of paying huge monthly listing fees.

Telnic needs to run with this and actually do some polling of Yellow Pages customers and young people. Getting the information out there is crucial: TV ads (next year's Super Bowl? American Idol? British Idol?), mainstream magazines (Newsweek, People, Reader's Digest, The New Yorker), and professional journals would be good places to start.

If this post is valid, then his viewpoint is important because it demonstrates that someone who has not engaged in domaining before sees the value in this TLD and its very practical (and money-saving) applications.

Still, I would suggest to OP (if he has more discretionary income) to buy some good .coms in the aftermarket. It's a good time to buy high-end .coms that would round out his domain portfolio a bit.




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[ginggang]

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Given that OP is not a domainer, he does not seem to harbor entrenched attitudes/prejudices toward new TLDs that domainers have--he just sees a product that has valid applications for professionals who are weary of paying huge monthly listing fees.

If this post is valid, then his viewpoint is important because it demonstrates that someone who has not engaged in domaining before sees the value in this TLD and its very practical (and money-saving) applications.

Still, I would suggest to OP (if he has more discretionary income) to buy some good .coms in the aftermarket. It's a good time to buy high-end .coms that would round out his domain portfolio a bit.




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Knowing some of the domains probably regged then they are extremly poor choices and it actualy validates the fact that he is niave about domains and has wasted possibly a lot of money. I don't see it as saving money if you will get even less visibility.

Granted there might be a gem or two in the portfolio but its a gamble on several fronts then.

I've shared some details with some other telsters who might want to chip in with their thoughts without revealing personal details of the registrant and the domains.

 

[aliencafe]

Im interested in what generics the OP has?

 

[onlinelife]

shame the tel link has gone.

this would have help spread the word.

Depends, if .Tel is really good at appealing masses then it don’t need footer link to spread to the world. I am quite happy with Telnic and the way they are considering our suggestion here.
One more feature request to add custom logo on .tel domains will be much appreciated.

 

[aliencafe]

I did some investigating of my own on the net and found that the Post is real from StefanB.

It is a credible legitimate posting, as far as what domains i checked and the owners etc..

Regards,

 

[hullswingerscom]

my sony laptop has gone faulty..still under warranty i called sony..

they ask for my email address and home phone number..i just gave them my dot tel.

this has all my details work,home...and were i am now......

i think dot tel will work well with my dot tv sites.

 

[Jawed]

On another note: I'm noticing that this Official .TEL thread is not very old and it is going to quickly surpass .PRO and .ME threads in page views. Does this trend show that there is much more interest in .TEL ? Just an observation.
Thanks, happy Friday!

I think this 'unprecedented' excitement is coming from newer generations, who are not familiar with Gopher or Telnet.

 

[kukgle]

I just put a lot more information in Keyword area (6 times inserted).

It is now lively like normal website --> http://newyork.american.tel/

 

[Ms Domainer]

I just put a lot more information in Keyword area (6 times inserted).

It is now lively like normal website --> http://newyork.american.tel/

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Aha!

So you were able to add significant text, pretty much the minimum for what search engines like for indexing.

From what I hear, search engines don't care one way or another about images; content is king.

You could actually do a short write up for each folder (subdomain).

Interesting!


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[aliencafe]

newyork.american.tel looks nice!

 

[AnthonyH]

That's excellent Kukgle. Some good ideas. I think we're only at the start of something really big here that will evolve in time into something as commonplace as dot com. It offers businesses enormous possibilites as a single point of contact for potential customers.

Western.tel  Courts.tel  SatelliteTV.tel GAA.tel

 

[Work In Progress]

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Aha!

So you were able to add significant text, pretty much the minimum for what search engines like for indexing.

From what I hear, search engines don't care one way or another about images; content is king.

You could actually do a short write up for each folder (subdomain).

Interesting!


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The statement above is true....content is king....not keywords

I'm certainly not trying to burst any bubbles. I am also fairly highly invested in a speculative, newer domain with restrictions (mobi).

I also have experience with developed sites in said restricted domain. That's what makes me $$$. I can divulge what most suspect...the more content, the higher the indexing. My bare bones "micro sites" index....terribly low. My deeper sites, loaded with actual content, fair much better. Google doesn't like them as well as Yahoo (I have many first page results in Yahoo). I have achieved first page # 1 on occasion, but it doesn't stay there.

Knowing the higher restrictions associated with .tel (as far as lack of true content / templated sites) points me to believe that .tel sites will not be able to climb the indexing ladder very high. I hope I'm wrong. I always like to see the underdog win. I do wish you all well. I'm sitting this one out though...

 

[onlinelife]

I just put a lot more information in Keyword area (6 times inserted).

It is now lively like normal website --> http://newyork.american.tel/

Congrats on your live American .tel

 

[stefanb]

I am not familiar with the domain culture and I have yet to figure out how many domains i have- I can give you precise numbers and names- I also don't have that much money and I don't regret if I lose some of it
- at least I tried to do something that I foundsomewhat meaningful.It
seemed like a good idea at the time and I still think that it is a good idea.
I don't know what this means but I would like to remain a private person, meaning that I have no interest to be included in stories and make too much of a circus around this- I make an honest living and probably it was a bad idea to discuss on a forum these matters that should probably be private- there is a fine line between a visionary and a less inspired person in this story (notice that I am being very kind to myself)- so I will try to keep it mostly private for now.
There are a few domain names that I can recall: mds.tel, docs.tel, orchids.tel, jeans.tel, denim.tel, vaccines.tel, billing.tel, testing.tel, teas.tel, beverages.tel, interpret.tel, learnenglish.tel, americas.tel, the top 7 cities in a European country, etc and for those who doubt my identity Dermatology.tel, etc probably if you guys are so great at dealing with computers there should be a way to know how to figure all 200 names out, since I registered only about a third of them privately, and even those had my name on them in the WhoIs on telnic site until 2 days ago- probably telhosting messed up. I am also not even mentioning the domains in my own field that I actually plan to develop, but what I am hoping to do is to add some value and some substance to these directories in my field whenever I find the time, and maybe that wil be of some value to everybody.
Note that I have a fairly basic .com website and that I don't even have the time to fix mds.tel- I was just playing with a few .tel sites and they appear very easy to use- idiot proof. I am also planning to sell some of my generic domains maybe to get additional funds to develop the ones that I am interested in. I bought most of them between Feb 4th and yesterday- I think I found out on Feb 4 about .tel from my telhosting co (I won't mention it so that you don't think that I am somehow promoting that company too)
Now if you can have an alliance of top generics and geo that have some substance added to them I don't think that any directory, mobile or internet company can compete with it.
The fact that I am a real person doesn't mean that it is a good idea to invest in .tel Many of the people I know lost significantly more money in stocks, a more traditional and wiser approach I guess.... Send e-mails on [email protected] if you want, but don't call my office because you will drive the people in my office crazy....
Good luck to everybody,
Stefan