List your .TEL domain here

.TEL will be live in a few hours from now. A new domain and a new prospect to get hold of some PREMIUM domain names that are not available in other extensions.

I personally have pre ordered some premium names and hope to have those in my domain portfolio.

Out of curiosity, would like to know the .TEL domain names that you have registered. Please list it here.

 

And I am wondering that how mush you invested in these domains?

The pre-order offer was $120 or more with min of 3 yrs of registration which comes to $360. Instead, you could have waited for sometime and you could have got 24 domains at that price.

 

pre registrations might be too costly..

but still there are lots of premium domain names left
and tht too the domains come for the price of 15-20$ depending upon the registrar

 

can we make a normal sites with .tel extension or just contact pages? i'm little bit confused about use of this exstension...

M

 

Just 1 more extension that will rot in cyberspace

Now .mobi will have a friend, so it wont have to die alone.

-=Chipmunk=-

 

at the moment .tel is waste of money! and it is ugly lol

 

.tel is destined for failure, completely worthless....what would you use it for?!

 

It would be used by people who are not geeks, don't know what an ftp is, and haven't heard of a server. So, not this market visiting this forum. Worthless to those who are smarter than 98% of the population. Then again, it's that 98% of the population that decides if something is a success or a failure. Know what I'm saying?

 

can somebodt explain this to me. I have read about and I saw name.com has a good promo running but i still do not understand what the point is.

 

You can find all the information at http://ruchiedomains.in/gettel.php

 

really the .TEL domain sucks.. i thought i could build a classique site on it..
for tht i got dofollow.tel

and found tht i can just add phone nos and stupid addresses of mine
what a waste... i wasted my money

if anyone wants the domain, they can have for the reg price itself..
also they can have pagerank.tel

 

The only way I'd ever consider getting a .tel is if it were for phone.tel, service.tel or something both premium & relevant to the extension...

 

They are charging top dollar for a service that is nothing more than yellow pages scattered across the web. If they didn't have the partnership with MySpace it would be a complete flop.

 

waiting for the open registrations was a good idea in this case..quite a lot of good domains were available when the open registrations went live..

 

No offense, but I think most of you are missing the point completely and what this could do for you.

.Tel has very clear advantages not immediately obvious if you view it as just another domain extension.

It does not pretend to be like any other extension and especially, it is at completely the opposite end of the spectrum from the hopeless .Mobi

I've got a few .Tel names and I'll tell you this now for nothing, if you can't get your head around the basics of what this extension really means, either through sheer ignorance or laziness, that is going to be your loss.

Sure, it's not for everyone, just as any major platform is not for everyone, but that doesn't mean that the concept itself is crap.

No doubt, more than a few of you, when any simple and very effective concept was launched, you had the naysayers immediately jumping in, who not seeing the wood for the tree's, proclaimed to all and sundry, that the concept was a load of rubbish, only to realise later that that small cog in the wheel, became a much bigger cog in time serving up a very useful purpose for millions of individuals and communities across the globe.

So rather than immediately jumping to the conclusion that it's a terrible concept, perhaps you need to take a much closer examination of the facts as they are present, rather than jumping to any completely negative opinions based on sheer ignorance.

It's not that difficult a concept to get your head around you know, if you register the right kind of addresses under the .Tel extension - of course it won't work for every domain name, that is quite precisely the point. As if that wasn't immediately obvious.

If you register any name, willy nilly, and you can't get it to work for you, that is your own stupidity in the first place for not carrying out your due diligence and research first. You can't blame the concept itself if you don't from the get go, understand it.

As I said above, it is designed to be completely different to every other domain extension and more especially works for mobile web developments and held held devices for the more mobile community, i.e. not those of you sat at arm as armchair critics, with a pc desktop or laptop in front of you.

If you don't keep up to date, you get left behind, simple as that. Read about it, research the subject, understand it and then criticise it if such criticism is based on true facts and not simply made up half truths of non-understanding.

A company doesn't keep a concept like this under wraps, in development for 9 whole years, without being extremely serious!

One of the posters above, the only one that I could see that offered a legitimate question rather than a critical POV, I'll pm you some info, which hopefully will help you out a little bit.

 

Why bother paying all of that money for a domain extension that nobody is going to register, when I can find a great .com or just buy a premium .com? .tel is just another gimmick like .me

 

If you cannot distinguish between .me and .tel there's something wrong with you.

They're as different as chalk and cheese.

That's the point you are missing, because you've already made up your mind that it's crap, without fully understanding or appreciating facts, pure and simple.

 

.Tel is mainly businesses !

And ye you don't need hosting with it. It's just like a contact page

 

Exactly. With further advantages too of course.

In nutshell though, nail, head.

 

Look at the domain market and tell me what the only domains worth selling are, and it's always .com and .net....or premium ccTLDs...

Sorry, I cannot justify spending over $100 on some oddball new extension, just like the upcoming .web. Go to any REAL domainer's blog like ricklatona.com and they talk about this extensively, and I believe the likes of people who have 7-figure domain portfolios and have been in the business for 15 years more than anyone else.