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?

 

[wot]

Everyone´s free to believe or not. Maybe we all should try to work in the domains to get that numbers. Anyway, I´m not interested about making my domains public. What I can show you is a picture, a 1 (random) month log of one of my domains. I´s not the most successfull of them but I think it´s enough to show you that I´m not lying.

Leave them hanging, if your stats are correct you are going very much in the right direction. Certainly not what some of the trolls and naysayers want to hear though.Me,I only have a very few .tel with little traffic but then I have not done a lot to promote/monetise them. :gl:

 

[Acroplex]

Face reality: .tel is dead. It has less registered domains now than at its peak, 6 months ago. Launching IDN .tel domains won't change anything. But at least, now the .tel fanbois can have their wet dream materialize: hyphenated, IDN .tel domains :D Happy monetization.

 

[wot]

Face reality: .tel is dead. It has less registered domains now than at its peak, 6 months ago. Launching IDN .tel domains won't change anything. But at least, now the .tel fanbois can have their wet dream materialize: hyphenated, IDN .tel domains :D Happy monetization.

Right on cue Acro :wave:

 

[Borondito]

Face reality: .tel is dead. It has less registered domains now than at its peak, 6 months ago. Launching IDN .tel domains won't change anything. But at least, now the .tel fanbois can have their wet dream materialize: hyphenated, IDN .tel domains :D Happy monetization.

I think .tel is as dead as every owner of .tel domains want (the same than with other extensions).
As I said, .tel isn´t gonna get us millionaire. But some bucks are good for everyone. I can´t imagine how good can be 40 o 50 $ a month for p.e. a citizen of a poor city of Bolivia. The point is that it´s not necesary to know very much about web design.

About IDN .tel, just to say that Spanish has its own unique letter ñ (egne). And Spanish is used for 400 million people. Good reason to buy an IDN (certainly I´m not gonna buy, first I want to work in all mi current .tel domains).

 

[hakita]

Hi all,

As many new tld will come soon, ( .corp, .geo, .thema...), many of then, should focus ont specific needs, in order to differentiate from .com 's like.
As far as i know, .tel is today the only tld with specific features that .com 's like does not have.

So in future, we could imagine that there would be specific tld for everyneeds...
cocacola.fax -> would resolve -> +001 54657....
cocacola.email (any explanation needed ? )
cocacola.postal ... -> would resolve -> 1 bld blbla , zip, city

What could be more natual amd obvious than that ?

Of course, a cocacola.fax would not be intented to host html content, but only to resolve name to fax number....

I still strongly believe than .tel will become telephone number resolver...
If one day it is adopted by a big compagny ( yellowpage's like comp, telecom comp...)
I personnaly offere a 10 year grace period to my little .tel portfolio, hoping this day will come.

About the article, .tel can not be a .com killer, as far as it is do doing the same job...


Regards

 

[CDM]

guess what kiddies ,,, all of my keyword .tel domains that i let drop have been snatched up already.

shame, yet comical, yet sad, yet ridiculous

 

[mjbenterprises]

That's why I'm not dropping any of mine...I will keep my TechSupport.tel and others for at least 5 more years...

guess what kiddies ,,, all of my keyword .tel domains that i let drop have been snatched up already.

shame, yet comical, yet sad, yet ridiculous

 

[DubDubDubDot]

That's why I'm not dropping any of mine.

You aren't dropping any because someone might be willing to pay regfee for them?

All it really means is that the new owner has the same mindset you had before realizing it was junk.

 

[mjbenterprises]

No, I'm not dropping mine because MY .tels are all outstanding keywords that fit the extension perfectly....(TechSupport.tel)

My decision to keep mine has nothing to do on whether anyone else's drops are picked up...

You aren't dropping any because someone might be willing to pay regfee for them?

All it really means is that the new owner has the same mindset you had before realizing it was junk.

 

[jacpar]

No, I'm not dropping mine because MY .tels are all outstanding keywords that fit the extension perfectly....(TechSupport.tel)

My decision to keep mine has nothing to do on whether anyone else's drops are picked up...

Don't take any minute to respond to the quotes of DubDubDubDot.

 

[wot]

All it really means is that the new owner has the same mindset you had before realizing it was junk.

Or the alternative that they realised there was potential there the guy that dropped them did not not see and perhaps the future held something new and reg fee was not a concern?

Never know in this business. :gl:

 

[DubDubDubDot]

My decision to keep mine has nothing to do on whether anyone else's drops are picked up...

Make up your mind....

guess what kiddies ,,, all of my keyword .tel domains that i let drop have been snatched up already.

shame, yet comical, yet sad, yet ridiculous

That's why I'm not dropping any of mine...I will keep my TechSupport.tel and others for at least 5 more years...

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Or the alternative that they realised there was potential there the guy that dropped them did not not see and perhaps the future held something new and reg fee was not a concern?

Never know in this business. :gl:

So much of domain values depend on the owner's level of selling skill.

There is nothing wrong in letting something drop that you can't sell and having someone else pick it up and sell it. They simply knew how to do what you were never going to figure out. So no loss.

Many domainers lose a lot of money with the "I have no idea how to profit from this, but I'll figure it out!" mindset rather than sticking with what we know. We are all guilty of this though. Some just more than others.

 

[CDM]

edit. not sure i even agree with what i was trying to say.

So much of domain values depend on the owner's level of selling skill.

There is nothing wrong in letting something drop that you can't sell and having someone else pick it up and sell it. They simply knew how to do what you were never going to figure out. So no loss.

Many domainers lose a lot of money with the "I have no idea how to profit from this, but I'll figure it out!" mindset rather than sticking with what we know. We are all guilty of this though. Some just more than others.

i agree with this and i am also guilty. i did not lose money but i did not make much either. maybe i am bitter you know, the no one will pay $20 on the forum but every domain i drop gets caught syndrome ..

 

[spline]

.Tel is far from dead. I dont know what you earn by saying so.
On some investigation quite the oposite seems true.
More and more .tel pages are populated.

Lets do some thinking.

There were around 250.000+ pages registered at peak. Lets say this might have fallen somewhat. But what has happened?

At first many domainers registered a lot of .tel domains. Lets say for example 1000 person registered 100 .tels each. Now That would be 100.000.

That means the number of real .tel users are quite low.
And the bulk of the domains where empty because the domainers did not have time to fill these with good information.

What seems to have happened is that domainers have dropped many domains but avarage Joe/small company has started to register .tels for himself.

So the number of users has increased while the number of domains kept by domainers has decreased.

.Tel has time on its side since its continuing to get known and get added value.
They are working on adding open OAuth and OpenID to work with .tel.

This mean among other things you will be able to update you .tel via sms.

You should really read this:
Telnic's Blog

Here is an example of how .tel can be used to fill in a form:
Telnic | Registrars Signup Form

You need to write in a .tel with info in the first field.

You might also want to read the second entry about VoipGate:
Apps and services « Telnic's Blog

 

[DubDubDubDot]

That means the number of real .tel users are quite low.

This is pretty much the only thing that domainers should concern themselves with. The number of real users is the only thing that matters.

.tel is a social network. For .tel domains to be worth good money, we are looking at needing a membership rate that rivals Facebook, MySpace and Twitter. In other words, more .tel domains than .coms.

How many of you REALLY believe this is going to happen?

 

[Kate]

Q: how many .tel are NOT in the hands of domainers ?

 

[thetruman]

A: million dollars Q.

 

[FostinWD]

sorry the ignorance, but what type of sites are recommended to use this domain extension?

 

[DubDubDubDot]

sorry the ignorance, but what type of sites are recommended to use this domain extension?

.tel is a social network that was granted it's own TLD to use as usernames. You can not change the nameservers to host your own sites. You must use their simple online business card template.

.mp is another social network with its own TLD. Far more features than what .tel offers, plus it is free. You can pay $20 to point the nameservers to your own host if you want to move the domain out of the social network. .tel is apparently prohibited by ICANN from offering this.

I'm not trying to pump .mp. I am not impressed with it either.

I think we are going to be seeing a lot of this once ICANN starts handing out the custom TLDs. All of the big social networks will offer TLD usernames. For some (most? all?) it will be a paid upgrade. LiveJournal was the first to do something like this years ago by giving sub-domains to paid accounts.

 

[MicroGuy]

You can pay $20 to point the nameservers to your own host if you want to move the domain out of the social network. .tel is apparently prohibited by ICANN from offering this.

Sounds like a lot of screwing going on in .TEL land. ICANN screws Telnic, Telnic screws registrant, and registrant screws self by choosing .TEL. (:O)