Been 36 hours now, and still my registered .tels are not active in my .tel account...
C'mon .tel....can you move this along, please?
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Just thinking about how to use .tels...
I have a (small) handful of .tels....What I'm thinking about is how exactly to use them - and, how a business/revenue model may look.
For me, .tel needs to be more than just a link farm, or a basic personal contact diary.
If you create a Directory, for example (either Geo, or Business), then, two things:
(i) By definition, a visitor to your .tel would click through, and then be taken away from your .tel site to the site they ultimately are interested in. So, you are basically an intro agent for someone else's business.....And, you lose the visitor from your .tel site without making money.
(ii) The only way to make money would be if your Directory .tel was marketed so brilliantly that you had great traffic, and could prove to businesses listed in your .tel Directory that you could deliver a lot of traffic to their particular business. Then they may pay you to be listed...But, that's tough.
Or, maybe, you could get intro deals, business by listed business....That's going to be hard to build up.
On the social networking app....
.tel would work wonderfully for this IF visitors could create personal sub-sectors within YOUR .tel domain, with their own username & password access etc (without access to your domain control account)...It would open .tel up to potentially be a Twitter, or such like.
So, with iMeet.tel (which I have), I could build/promote a .tel, as a genuine community, where people can access each other's details/interests, and expect to meet/find lots of other people with like-minded interests etc (be even better with some upload pic features etc) - ie a real social networking community (and the mobile element would be a real plus here).
But, for this to work someone needs to be able to come to iMeet.tel, create a sub-sector within iMeet.tel, themselves, called, say, Susie.iMeet.tel, with her own password/username access, and, then publish her profile of interests/contact details etc.....And, Susie's access would have to be separate, within my .tel account, from my control of the main domain account.
As membership grows, iMeet.tel could be monetised.
But, I can't see how to do this as it is currently set up. Independent visitor access to create a sub-category within the main domain (without access to the main domain account, which includes my other registered .tels) seems to be the problem.
Any thoughts?
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