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]

Maybe not, but Dynadot does! :sold:

Yep. I grace deleted UpTown.tel but it cost me $1.00. I believe ccTLDs are still free!

 

[vitorz]

Thanks for tips jag and plaggypig

 

[steveteva]

I've got mylastname.tel and can tell you that it's the best TLD I ever had in my life.
Today I had a meeting with the tourist board and at the end of the conference, everyone shares their contact informations (Business Card or writting down on a piece of paper), I forgot my BC at the office but it reminds me that I've got the .tel and was ready with all my infos (phone, email....) so when each member exchange their business card or write down... I say to each of them "sorry I don't have my business card, in 2009 it's obsolete (LOL), just write my lastname.tel or remember it, it's easy, log on the web and you'll get all my infos.
They were all like WOW, what's that .tel and most of them won't forget a BC in their pocket or leave on their desktop without been notice Mine will be unforgettable and they surely will take a look as soon as they get home or office.

 

[lexisdomains]

.Tel Monetization

1) Is there at present ANY way to prove to an advertiser that their website was visited by a click-through from my .tel? Or that his phone rang through from my .tel? I presume not. (Well, a proxy phone number for each listing....NOT!)

2) Is there even any way to prove to a potential advertiser how many visits my .tel gets?

Yes.

'Click-to-Call' marketing can be measured, even on .TELs.
It tracks the number of call from a specific campaign.

For example, you could track call routed from: (keywordsubdomain.keyword.tel) and the company would no where these calls originated from.

However, it involves integrating third party trackable telephone number.

This is the way that I will be structuring all of my .Tel directorys.
If any of you guys are interested in getting your .TEL setup in this manner, please PM me.

3) Is there any way to collect a micro-payment from the visitor to my .tel when he clicks a phone number or website? (One of my .tel's has adult aspects...)

No.
It is more advantageous to setup your advertising contract based on an 'allocated dollar amount'.

For example, company ABC could allocate a $1500 to receive 150 which works out to about $10 per call.

Best of all, you don't have to worry about closing the sale..... That's the company's job!! All you have to do is 'drive calls' to their phonelines and get paid.

Hey..... $1500 a month ain't bad for a startup directory.... Now imagine this concept exponentially:

$1500 X 10 really good clients = $15,000 a month!!!

 

[jagdotme]

Thanks for tips jag and plaggypig

No worries...just remember dont buy names like Nike,google,msn and godaddy etc

take it easy and good luck

 

[Ms Domainer]

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Think mobile.

.Tel is all about what people do and will do while on the go. Type in Pizza.tel and order a pizza via a .com mobile-compliant .com.

I have crosswords.tel (GA and not yet live), which could very easily connect to a mobile-compliant .com site with options for doing crossword puzzles directly on your phone. As mobiles become more sophisticated, you're going to see options for flashing virtual (and usuable) keyboards on flat surfaces and virtual screens on walls for playing games, etc., via your phone. We may not be there just yet, but it's coming, and .tel will be there as an adjunct to that mobile society.

Or get music directly from a .tel space.

I have calculator.tel (not live yet--when I get home from my conference). Some of the calculator terms get huge exact search term resultss, such as mortgage calculator, loan calculator, scientific calculator, amortization calculator, caloric calculator, Distance Calculator, etc. Meanwhile, I'm working on a simple calculator site (http://calculatortel.blogspot.com/ I haven't even CNAMED the site yet with its corresponding domain), which displays one calculator at a time. Each .tel subdomain (consisting of a high exact search term) will direct to its corresponding calculator on the dot com site, which does have adsense (I have turned off the image ads, though I doubt if this site is mobile-compliant. In a few years, it won't matter anyway).

Simplicity.

The .tel will not be a deep directory (only one subdomain deep), just the high ranking kinds of calculators because I know that if a calculator option is available, people will use their mobile phones when they are out and about and just need some quick calculations, for example, at the grocery store and for figuring out distances.

My .com site is crude because I'm not very tech savvy, but I think you can get the general idea of how .tel (great keyword) can link effectively to a .com site. I'll be getting a bang for my landrush dollars because many of the subdomain adjectives are actually higher ranking terms than just calculator. And to Google, they will look like two words with a space. And I'll never pay extra for those subdomains.



.Tel is about memorable letter-based phone numbers. Why would I type in 1-800-Flowers when I could type in Flowers.tel?

.Tel is about branding, both business and personal (vanity).

If .tel performs like I think it will, down the road, you'll see a hot button option for .tel (on mobile phones, that is, maybe not pcs), for example, type in domain keyword + * or # or even a purple .tel button (which could be actual or virtual). Shortcode numbers use hot buttons, so why not .tel?

If I owned Telnic, I would be working toward such a goal; I'd be in negotiations with all the major cell phone companies to make that hot button happen.

Personal note: for the first time, I gave out my personal .tel address. I'm at a conference, and the person was very surprised to see that such an extension exists. "Wow!" was the response I got.

Speaking of the conference, I have an 8:00 a.m. poetry workshop to run tomorrow.

Off to bed.


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[cogger]

.tel is pretty awesome, I guess it will also let you contact the dead. :ghost:

This just sparked an idea for my DUMB.TEL domain

A directory of all the dumb ones :hehe:

My domains are

hotmail.tel
godaddy.tel

Great names! But read about trademarks before you reg any more

 

[zapdaddy]

Dynadot didn't get most of the ones I wanted.....
I ended up with

netbooks,tel
notebookcomputers,tel
onlinepharmacy,tel
personalloan,tel

and a bunch of ski resort names (generic sounding ones only)

 

[qO_Op]

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[phase111]

Dynadot didn't get most of the ones I wanted.....
I ended up with

netbooks,tel
notebookcomputers,tel
onlinepharmacy,tel
personalloan,tel

and a bunch of ski resort names (generic sounding ones only)

Onlinepharmacy.tel has some potential for sure and personalloan.tel too.

 

[immediate]

This just sparked an idea for my DUMB.TEL domain

A directory of all the dumb ones :hehe:



Great names! But read about trademarks before you reg any more

Check out noob.tel and stupid.tel

Should i ask for a refund for this one from Dynadot?

bot.tel

(at first i thought its a cool hack, hahaha stupid me, .... anyone else misspelling Bottle?? 280.000 according to Google, though BOT itself is kinda nice too...)
Keep or Refund??

Happy with my other 3 regs since am pretty involved in those niches:

meditation.tel
anxiety.tel
selfimprovement.tel

A Little Free Advertising LOL:
SuccessfulSelfImprovement.Com

Keep your eye and mind into the future.

Consumer robots and robots manufacturing will soon become the leading industry just like what the web did decades ago, maybe in 5 years maybe in 10. But it's almost there I believe...

bot.tel is a fantastic name in this sense. Keep it!

Who's got robots.tel anyway?

Hey and, you guys should also start stocking names for space industry: cheapspacecraft.com, usedspaceships.com, spaceshipinsurance.com, spacedestinations.com, startravelagency.com to name a few.... :D

 

[davidwest]

lefty.tel

lefty.tel

might just give it to my son,
(hes a lefty)

but there are a lot of lefty stores and products...

 

[StuartP]

Some of my .tel domains (looking to sell)

Some of the .tel domains I picked up in landrush (first few seconds) and I'm looking to flip:

FreeStuff.tel
GroceryStore.tel
Magazine.tel
Supermarket.tel
Taxes.tel
Telephones.tel
WebDesigner.tel
WebDesigners.tel

Just listed them all on Sedo.

 

[mahesh13]

sexmate*tel
escortz.tel

 

[hasseily]

If .tel performs like I think it will, down the road, you'll see a hot button option for .tel (on mobile phones, that is, maybe not pcs), for example, type in domain keyword + * or # or even a purple .tel button (which could be actual or virtual). Shortcode numbers use hot buttons, so why not .tel?

What's a hot button? In any case, why need hot buttons? Type the name, press "call"... that's what the aim is.

 

[tkstark]

Pour.tel
Mend.tel
Drag.tel
Codi.tel
Rear.tel

 

[Blitzpotz]

Good names still available. I took

cucina.tel
roadster.tel

 

[WordWalker]

I'm thinking out loud but how 'bout this - if you're John Doe - what would you pay for johndoe.tel? Twenty bucks? Thirty? I can't imagine a scenerio where anybody is gonna' pay $$ for domains like findahouseinomahanebraska.te
L2

If I ran a towing company and was told that only one tow company would be indexed per local region through a Towing.tel 24/7 live call center, would I spend $20 per month for the benefit of all calls within my region being forwarded exclusively to me?

What about a local check cashing business through CheckCashing.tel?

Or a plumbing contractor? Or heating? Or roofing?

What about the potential of any number of other service related companies that could benefit from a 1-800-Dentist call center style business model?

Beyond that, alternatives to live person call centers might include auto phone attendants, voice recognition interfaces, text interfaces, or a combination of all the above. The future is all about mobile devices. In other words, not only is a laptop or pc not required, it may not even be a part of the equation.

In a world of 3 billion handsets, being tethered to a box of any kind is not the future I see coming. Pure mobile applications and networks are going to play a HUGE role in how business gets done. Asking how a CPC text ad is going to work within the .tel architecture may not even be the right question.

No doubt, Google is working overtime on how to connect and monetize those 3 billion handsets. IMHO, wherever the mobile internet is headed, .tel is going to be right in the middle of it. Discovering what comes next and being ready to participate is the challenge.

 

[Mobiluri]

As for GoDaddy.tel, I think it was their "political" decision not to register domain in zone they are not serving. In this light, I don't think that they will initiate any legal actions against current owner - that will generate unneeded publicity, saying that .tel is valuable for GoDaddy. So, until GoDaddy will go through .tel certification, you may don't worry

As for Hotmail.tel... hm... is it really a trademark? As someone said earlier, Microsoft has secured its trademarks in .tel. So, you think they are so "silly" that don't have complete list of their TMs? :D I think they understood that hotmail.com has no need to be secured by .tel (the same example is googlemail.tel, which is still free)

 

[wot]

As for GoDaddy.tel, I think it was their "political" decision not to register domain in zone they are not serving. In this light, I don't think that they will initiate any legal actions against current owner - that will generate unneeded publicity, saying that .tel is valuable for GoDaddy. So, until GoDaddy will go through .tel certification, you may don't worry

As for Hotmail.tel... hm... is it really a trademark? As someone said earlier, Microsoft has secured its trademarks in .tel. So, you think they are so "silly" that don't have complete list of their TMs? :D I think they understood that hotmail.com has no need to be secured by .tel (the same example is googlemail.tel, which is still free)

I am sorry but you are talking a complete load of rubbish- they are tm's plain and simple and the op is on a hiding to nothing.