Now I'm surprised that this thread so far only has the one single reply. Perhaps a lot of people still do not fully understand the concept behind .Tel and what it can actually do for them, not only to make their life easier but also as a great means of communication which is much faster over more traditional methods. I've bought a few .Tel domains, one or two for my business, one or two others on a whim, which I'm currently brainstorming ideas upon. Personally, I think it is a great concept, 9 years now in the making and only just launched, that in itself is quite remarkable. Certainly I think in the future, a lot more people will become a great deal more aware of this extension and how it can work for them, not only as an individual .Tel owner but also businesses targeting specific keywords or of course to set up paid directory listings upon. I've also got TelDiscussionforum.com which in the next week or so will become a fully fedged forum in it's own right, hopefully drawing more people to the great ans awesome, fantastic clear advantages of using this extension to it maximum potential. At the moment, I don't think too many people fully understand the entire concept behind the .Tel extension, when they do, it is sure to really pick up a good pace and can only increase in popularity. To be honest I think this is one of those things that is going to revolutionise the online world, especially from mobiles and hand held devices long into the future. Once people get their heads around the concept and what it can do for them, they'll be hoards of people clamouring to jump on board. Personally, I'm quite excited to see how this develops from the .Tel community members. Of course, as I said above, it's completely different to any other domain extension and requires no website to set up, yet it can still end up sending to you / your business excellent immediate traffic in an instant, all just a button click away. For individual users, the ability to simply hand out a .Tel 'business card' with all of your contact details on and the ability to keep whatever you want to, absolutely private, has enormous advantages. If ,Mobi was crap before, this concept will certainly blow whatever respectabilty that that extension had, to smithereens. If .Mobi had developed in this way instead, they too could have really gone places. Alas it was not mean't to be. .Tel is the new kid on the block and has just about everything you need for extremely fast. Everyone should without fail, check it out today!
Well, thanks for that. I think I'm more than capable of choosing for myself without your interference, which topics I reply to, thanks all the same.
That's a great question. Might very probably be .moon when the Moon officially opens for business and .mars after Mars' substantially inhabited by us earthlings. lol~
.tel has been selling like hot buns... Try finding a descent words it gone.... Just got one (aiwa.tel) I thing this is what web 3.0 is about personal..
Thanks... But have a look at this link....http://www.aiwa.org/index.php Is That a trademark violation ??
It seems quite interesting to buy a domain with a brand name and use it in totally different way. You can drive tons of traffic with this brand name. I don't thinks it would be consider as a violation of trademark policy. What you say people ? Thanks Parul
It is a trademarked name, pure and simple, keeping it, using it is cybersquating which is illegal. If you use it and you get sued for mega money, don't say you weren't warned. Buy any domain, on whatever extension, you should always carry out due diligence first. Do your research. It's very easy to find out in a jiffy if any name is a trademark, which this one most certainly is. The above poster telling you that you could drive loads of traffic with this name is gving you extremely bad advice, there again, s/he has nothing to lose, whilst you do. Just give the domain to Aiwa (Sony Corporation), hand it over to them or just let it naturally expire. You can carry out any domain trademark searches here: http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/gate.exe?f=searchss&state=4010:qderg6.1.1 Just type in the domain name separated by spaces between words, with no errors, leave all the other settings as they are and hit Search. In this case the LIVE Search Results are here: http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/showfiel...h&a_search=Submit+Query&a_search=Submit+Query Details: Registration Number: 3340440 Registration Date: November 20, 2007 Owner: (REGISTRANT) Sony Kabushiki Kaisha TA Sony Corporation CORPORATION JAPAN 1-7-1 Konan, Minato-ku Tokyo JAPAN Attorney of Record: Robert B.G. Horowitz, Esq. Use that tool every time you think about registering any domain name to make sure that the name that you intend to use, does not belong to anyone else. In this case, as you know, Sony is a huge corporation and they'd think nothing of taking you to the cleaners for domain trademark infringement. Think about it carefully before jumping in to make a few bucks out of their good trading name! Best of luck.
Yes, but you didn't buy this domain on this extension because it belongs to some womes advocacy charity in another part of the world, did you? As you know, Aiwa is a corporation, large company associated with electronics and is very well known for it's HiFi range of products, indeed, it appears that it is a subsidiary of the Sony Corporation. This is the reason why you registered this domain, not for taking the name from a bunch of ladies fighting women's rights or whatever. Since you cannot create a website on a .Tel, one can only assume that you have registered this Aiwa.Tel domain name to take advantage of the much larger and well known company trademark and trading name. If your initials are AIWA then you might be able to get away with it, but if they're not, I think if Aiwa demanded this domain from you for collating all of their departmental contacts and info, all in one place as a Aiwa directory for it's employee's or customers worldwide, you should just hand it over to them, no questions asked. The decent thing to do would be to contact their lawyer (details above) and simply offer to send it to them, if they don't answer you or reply to your communication, at least from a legal point of view, if another part of them came after you later on, you could produce the evidence to say, well I did at least let them know, as soon as I became aware of the situation, but no-one replied to me. This I think would protect you somewhat. I'm only trying to tell you this for your own good, so you don't by some innocent, unaware action, get yourself inadvertently sued by your somewhat naive course of action. Most of the time I know I'm just wasting my time and that such advice will fall on deaf ears.