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?

 

[Embrand]

Hi, as far as i can see, night does not fit well .tel extension as it does notdescribe a service.
If your name is Mr Night, keep it.

You should prefer name like travelagency.tel , hotel.tel, restaurant.tel that better fit the .tel extension.
Regards

It has now been sold here at NP and has a nice looking site already

 

[mis_chiff]

It has now been sold here at NP and has a nice looking site already

Congrats on the sale, I don't see a site on it though?

Is there any other registrar - other than dynadot- that we can
move these .tel to?

 

[siga]

Is there any other registrar - other than dynadot- that we can
move these .tel to?,

webnames.ca is a local one for you, they have scene going in vancouver,
Also name.com, directi resellers, eurodns, domainmonster.com, enom, encirca, gandi.net.

Its recommended to back up your .tel prior to transfer.

 

[Keith]

PPV.tel (pay per view) PM me if you have any interest in purchasing

I seen that my firstname.tel is set up for personal and business use. Maybe I should have registered it?!

 

[spline]

Hi, as far as i can see, night does not fit well .tel extension as it does notdescribe a service.
If your name is Mr Night, keep it.

You should prefer name like travelagency.tel , hotel.tel, restaurant.tel that better fit the .tel extension.
Regards

Sure, but since you can create a subdomain on it, you could get clubs.night.tel

Which can appear on a search for night clubs.

So it can be useful.

 

[Kate]

Also, good.night.tel.

 

[Embrand]

Congrats on the sale, I don't see a site on it though?

Well, that one page that .tel sites are, but still looks pretty neat...

It still shows up here. Don't know why you can't see it :p

 

[Shahid7]

.tel are good if you know how to rank them, you might have the best keywords but if you don't know how to play with it you are a loser

i like .tel because of it's SEO efficiency and it is cheap

 

[tel-buy.com]

.TEL is no threat to other TLD's, everyone should embrace .TEL for what it is ... A Phonebook of Listings.

Basic information across all devices, brilliant.

Website Developers should use it as a tool to upsell after the listing, just like YP.com
yellownames.com has the right idea !

:hearts:

 

[DubDubDubDot]

Time has proven .tel to be a bust from a domaining standpoint.

 

[tel-buy.com]

Time has proven .tel to be a bust from a domaining standpoint.

FINALLY ! Now we can get to it's true value beyond domaining - the Listing !

 

[DubDubDubDot]

FINALLY ! Now we can get to it's true value beyond domaining - the Listing !

I guess that means it's time to close this thread in shame since this is a domainer forum.

It's funny to think back at how the pumpers wanted the naysayers banned from NP for bringing negative warnings to the thread.

 

[MicroGuy]

What happened?

This thread started out with a bang. There was more pumping going on here than at the Las Vegas Chicken Ranch on payday. IMO.

 

[tel-buy.com]

I guess that means it's time to close this thread in shame since this is a domainer forum.

It's funny to think back at how the pumpers wanted the naysayers banned from NP for bringing negative warnings to the thread.

NamePros
Buy, Sell, Discuss Domain Names

I guess if you're stuck on "Buy, Sell," and not the value of "Discuss" ... including the listing value, seo value, etc.... Hmmm

:lol:

 

[Kate]

We are actually focused on "Discuss".
Like discussing the huge waste of money

 

[MicroGuy]

Like discussing the huge waste of money

:bingo:

 

[tel-buy.com]

Yeah, $1 Billion USD Revenue Online In Yellow Pages Last Year. What A Waste The Idea Is !

(Of course that's the U.S. only at a lowly 4% of the World Population)

So, let's see, that's a $25+ Billion Dollar Industry potential worldwide.

Waste Or Not, There are certainly worse ideas !

TelPages Global Directory !

And .TEL is the .COM of Online Listings !

Basic Information across ALL devices !

:kickass::bingo::bah::lala::hehe::sold::gn:

 

[mis_chiff]

Waste Or Not, There are certainly worse ideas !

Yes there are worse ideas and the word Renewal comes to mind.

The only traffic I get on my geo .tel is me checking if it's still working _\|/_

 

[Kate]

Yeah, $1 Billion USD Revenue Online In Yellow Pages Last Year. What A Waste The Idea Is !

Yellow Pages is something that still works even in the Internet era.
Let's talk about the revenue of .tel holders (or the lack thereof) shall we.

And .TEL is the .COM of Online Listings !

Only in an alternate reality

 

[DubDubDubDot]

I guess if you're stuck on "Buy, Sell," and not the value of "Discuss" ... including the listing value, seo value, etc...

If there was listing or SEO value, that would in turn create aftermarket value. So where are the sales?

http://www.domaintools.com/buy/sales-history/?q=.tel

The top .tel sale ever, Pay.tel for $5,000, didn't even happen. Our old friend PlaggyPig owns that domain and always has. Just to jar your memories, he once claimed in this thread to have $10,000 offers on multiple .tel domains and he wasn't accepting the offers. Yeah, right. Was he behind this pay.tel no-sale for some publicity?


edit:
Just doing a little more looking around...

He asks here http://www.telnic.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1399 on 08-08-2010 what he should auction first.

On 08-12-2010 at 12:00 AM he reports that the auction is live. Just 5 hours later someone notes that the $5,000 reserve is already met.

That same day, someone else says "It really is in all our interests that http://Pay.tel sells for a good price"

On 08-16-2010 he does an interview with DotWeekly here http://www.dotweekly.com/new-highest-tel-domain-sale-coming-pay-tel where he pushes his Hosting.tel auction https://flippa.com/auctions/103324/Hosting-tel which ends on 08-23-2010 for $2,000 riding on the good news of the $5,000 Pay.tel sale.

On 08-25-2010, after the Hosting.tel sale is completed, he contacts DotWeekly that the Pay.tel sale didn't go through and they update the story in the comments.

Put one and one together. He faked the Pay.tel sale at Sedo to create hype for his Hosting.tel auction at Flippa.

To this day, the .tel pumper sites are treating the pay.tel sale as historical fact: http://dottel.net/historical-dot-tel-sales#sales