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]

You dont want the general public to get confused... get them into it bit by bit nice and slowly

Good point, except 'Ben' wrote ben.tel in the window without the www, then she enters www into her phone.

 

[siga]

Probally because ben.tel is shorter,quicker to write with a capacino... whereas she recognises it as a web address and puts in "www"

imho its good marketing it shows this as being short to write down and memorable (ben.tel) but shows it as an actual web address (www.) by her typing it in.

To conclude its short easy to remember and is not to new a tech for the General Public to start getting fuzzy headed with. While we are informed enough to understand that it is ment to be used with out the prefix.

I look at it in a similar way to people writing www.hotmail.com rather than http://www.hotmail.com where as both can be used.

 

[thetruman]

writing without www will work fine , what is the issue?

 

[FreakySteve]

I wonder if it is pure marketing behind the use of the www. prefix ie is to let people know it is another domainname. You dont want the general public to get confused... get them into it bit by bit nice and slowly

Definitely. People still double-click links in their browser. The more handholding, the better.

Good point, except 'Ben' wrote ben.tel in the window without the www, then she enters www into her phone.

I think this would help show people that you can do either and you're good to go. It could add to confusion, but overall the message seems clear.

It certainly tells a great story :sold:

 

[GeoOwners]

here's what google has indexed so far:
http://google.com/search?q=site:tel[/QUOTE

great link... Thanks

Forsale.tel my favorite... That one could be the next craigslist


I see eurodns.tel in there too

 

[MicroGuy]

Probally because ben.tel is shorter,quicker to write with a capacino... whereas she recognises it as a web address and puts in "www"

Not sure. Is it a web address when using cell phone applications?

 

[Soofi]

is this guy serious?
http://www.godaddy.tel/ :hehe:
wow he paid 300 for that one

He could be, it takes about few hundred thousand to file a UDRP wit WIPO, so he can anyways offer to sell the domain within or under that price range to godaddy for his profit

you know what I mean :sold:

 

[MicroGuy]

Trying to figure out a way to start a blog on my .TEL page. Update to follow.

 

[Pred]

He could be, it takes about few hundred thousand to file a UDRP wit WIPO, so he can anyways offer to sell the domain within or under that price range to godaddy for his profit

you know what I mean :sold:

more like about 3k + their lawyers fees

the tm lawyers are gonna get rich again


sedo i noticed was took along with loads of tms :wave:

namepros & r-j are still free to reg :yell:

 

[chandan]

more like about 3k + their lawyers fees

the tm lawyers are gonna get rich again


sedo i noticed was took along with loads of tms :wave:

namepros & r-j are still free to reg :yell:

r-j is tm ?

 

[Pred]

r-j is tm ?

nope
but rj runs this forum and just saying he hasn't regged them
prob worth taking namepros to stop someone else

 

[stefanb]

Justin, I am wondering if .tel and its privacy feature doesn't make it ideal in using it to facilitate the process of completing all kinds of applications with personal info. For example, all health care facilities will be forced in the US to convert to electronic medical records in the next few years (in 2 years we'll start to be penalized if we don't do it), and patients or medical offices have to enter again and again the same contact info and the same medical info (and their changes) over and over again for each medical office... I am sure that the same applies to applications in all the other fields where privacy is important (banking, legal, jobs, etc). Again, .tel might save people a lot of time in this way too.... Maybe people should already start including even on their paper applications a .tel box......

 

[Tribulatio]

Trying to figure out a way to start a blog on my .TEL page. Update to follow.

I had thought about something Twitter-like, but not about a blog. Very curious to hear more about your attempt! Keep us informed!

 

[ZandyMan]

Anyone care to put a ballpark estimate on what a nice geo.tel would sell for now if you were trying to sell it? For example, "somebigcity".tel

 

[nrmillions]

trouble is, not every one will use their .tel right.
I went to lowell.tel and expected to find info on lowell, ma. there, instead it's some guy's name.
What a waste!

If I was on my mobile looking up lowell.tel to find the number for city hall, I would've been disappointed in finding it's actually about "Lowell the horse trainer".

look at houston.tel.
It's parked.
Too much of that will hurt the extension bad.

this is exactly why .tel will be a failure IMO and never be like the yellow pages like everyone is thinking. If I am traveling in a city or at home i just open up the yellowpages app on my iphone and it instantly knows my location and I can find anything or I can go to google maps and type in a word such as Pizza and it will show me every pizza place near me with click to dial. If I go to a city.tel domain it might just be loaded with porn links or if i go to pizza.tel how do i know for sure that it will be reliable info? Would you trust a plumber from a link on a plumber.tel domain or from yellowpages.com more? Paper phonebooks are dead but dead because of the internet, mobile web, and iphone apps, not dead because of the .tel domain names. Of course I bought a few .tel domains just incase because you never know but I still think it will never be what people think it will be. Its easy for people to have a site when they dont know how to make one but so is me.tv for the .tv domains and .tv hasnt taken off either. Do people actually think people are going to pay them big money to put a link on a .tel domain that has no traffic and is something they never heard of before?

 

[Traveler]

Anyone care to put a ballpark estimate on what a nice geo.tel would sell for now if you were trying to sell it? For example, "somebigcity".tel

One million dollars.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKKHSAE1gIs

 

[nrmillions]

I grabbed illinois (.) tel during the second phase. It was the highest populated state that was unreg'd when I finally convinced myself to take a chance and register one for the $300 fee (ouch). One was enough for me in that phase though.

Last night I grabbed these:

Thinking a yellowpages type phonebook for these first 4. I kind of like the ePages and iPages best out of them.

ePages (.) tel
iPages (.) tel
ePhonebook (.) tel
iPhonebook (.) tel

MyPersonal (.) tel - Who knows..maybe .tel will catch on with the whole social networking thing, and people who don't have their own .tel domain will want TheirName.MyPersonal.tel I need to do more reading on their API and available tools to see what I can do with this one..

jgm (.) tel - My initials :D Since my first name .tel and last name .tel were both taken, this was the next best thing.

Grabbed this one today:

Bozeman (.) tel - Only "big" Montana city left unreg'd.

I really wish I had remembered when the .tel's were opening up for the cheaper price. I would've grabbed some better ones for the place I work and for myself. Instead I forgot (woops) and was a day late...

Illinois.tel is a nice one but do you really think people will pay you for a subdomain on MyPersonal.tel? They might as well just get their own .tel domain. I would rather own the entire Neil2.tel or Neil7.tel than to lease a subdomain from someone else at Neil.MyPersonal.tel. It seems like everyone with .tel domains thinks people will automatically want to pay them for subdomains and a link.

 

[Tribulatio]

Anyone care to put a ballpark estimate on what a nice geo.tel would sell for now if you were trying to sell it? For example, "somebigcity".tel

Too early to make such estimates - and anyway, I wouldn't hurry to sell such a name, if you own it,

 

[chader144]

I had thought about something Twitter-like, but not about a blog. Very curious to hear more about your attempt! Keep us informed!

Just a thought:
You could use the Ajax api and connect it to your free text area and update those.

this is exactly why .tel will be a failure IMO and never be like the yellow pages like everyone is thinking. If I am traveling in a city or at home i just open up the yellowpages app on my iphone and it instantly knows my location and I can find anything or I can go to google maps and type in a word such as Pizza and it will show me every pizza place near me with click to dial. If I go to a city.tel domain it might just be loaded with porn links or if i go to pizza.tel how do i know for sure that it will be reliable info? Would you trust a plumber from a link on a plumber.tel domain or from yellowpages.com more? Paper phonebooks are dead but dead because of the internet, mobile web, and iphone apps, not dead because of the .tel domain names. Of course I bought a few .tel domains just incase because you never know but I still think it will never be what people think it will be. Its easy for people to have a site when they dont know how to make one but so is me.tv for the .tv domains and .tv hasnt taken off either. Do people actually think people are going to pay them big money to put a link on a .tel domain that has no traffic and is something they never heard of before?

If you started interfacing in different dot tels to a main one you could start having the ability for a yellowpage like experience. There would definitely need to be some standards to join the directory / group. But the benefit is that each individual has the ability to instantly update their information. I think the teledex could be a start.

 

[plaggypig]

this is exactly why .tel will be a failure IMO and never be like the yellow pages like everyone is thinking. If I am traveling in a city or at home i just open up the yellowpages app on my iphone and it instantly knows my location and I can find anything or I can go to google maps and type in a word such as Pizza and it will show me every pizza place near me with click to dial.

Location based services are one thing, directory services another, and .tel suits both (amongst others). We're still in the early days, so you'll just have to imagine how these things will look and develop - in my mind they will be very disruptive.

If I go to a city.tel domain it might just be loaded with porn links or if i go to pizza.tel how do i know for sure that it will be reliable info? Would you trust a plumber from a link on a plumber.tel domain or from yellowpages.com more?

How do you know city.com or pizza.com isn't loaded up with actual porn? The point is that you use search to find new things. Perhaps general purpose search engines will develop specialised features for .tel records? Other specialist directory search engines are being developed.. other things will emerge that haven't even been discussed yet. Think big!