List your .TEL domain here

Rick is just one guy, if you did your research properly, making it sound as though Rick Latona is completely against the idea of .tel - (putting you on a very sticky wicket), I'd make sure that I was armed with all of the facts first regarding his interviews with the founders of .tel and where these interviews appear online.

I've also been in the domain business for about 12 years, give or take, no doubt starting out when you were still just out of nappies.

$100? Where does that figure come from? What planet are you on?

You know as well as I do that it does not cost $100 to register a .tel domain. Stop spreading false information online.

To cover your first point, I see that you are coming at this extension from the direction of a domain investor, that is why you don't understand the concept. In a nutshell, it wasn't designed for the likes or/of the purpose which you have in mind, again, your views are based on ignorance and stupidity.

Obviously, your'e just throwing mud at the wall and hoping that something will stick if you say it firmly enough or repeat it enough times, no matter how wrong you are.

Go away and do some research before you start throwing your weight around casting aspersions on a concept which, it is plain to see, you have no real knowledge or views of any substance upon.

No point in discussing this any further with you, it's like flogging a dead horse.

 

Ok, let me make my point. I'm not self promoting my site here. Having said that.. http://www.teldomainnamesfaq.com/ which is my crappy site. Okay, I can admit that. WATCH THE VIDEO!

People here are too smart for their own good. I have tried in the past to explain the concept of .tel but there is a lot of ignorance out there. Let's not pretend that an exclusive club of expert SEO is going to make or break .tel. This is for the first time, a domain that is for the masses. Why? Because you can update it from any internet connected device. You don't need anything more than understanding what your password is.

Again, words can't explain what it is. WATCH THE VIDEO. I'm not trying to be a salesman here. I think the biggest problem with .tel is whats been said here. Things like it's just another stupid domain name. Tel must shake that belief. Not sure if they can. Unfortunately there has been far too many useless domain extensions released in the past. They are useless imo. At least .tel is something new. Let's understand a user friendly domain before we trash it.

 

That's kind of dumb, considering he's one of the most respected domainers on the planet...

Nice try, I have a year of experience over you.

I know exactly what it was designed for, and all of it can be replicated by hiring a good coder and using a .com

Obviously, you're right and that's all their is to it, you'd make a great housewife.

Have fun with your .tel's, let me know how they work out for you in a year

 

Precisely the point.

I was on your site yesterday btw after a Google search, saw it, clicked on it, provided some useful info.

Now, on RL's site, one guy called Cliff, summed it up this way:

cliffk on March 10th, 2009 1:14 am

As a business owner and one who has spent thousands of dollars on phonebook ads over the years, I feel the importance of .TEL is the potential consistency in marketing and advertising for a business. Phonebook search has lost 25% of look-ups in the last five years. Most of this business search has been replaced by search engine results but a company is dependent upon the search engine bots to crawl your web text to decide what your business is about. Insert your own keywords with .TEL and “tell” google what your business is about. A website to maintain, SEO to pay for, update content to attract readers as “potential” customers, all for most small business that has very little connection to the internet other than an online brochure. Small business just needs a simple, replacement for those lost phonebook searchers. Ever had to count on phonebooks to publish your information correctly. If it didn’t publish right, well there is always next year I guess. Unless there was a way to manage your own published information. Need a new number to test an advertising campaign? Need a vanity phone number to have a memorable way to contact you from advertising? Maybe not any more. Or better yet, match a vanity phone number and .TEL domain to deliver consistency to your customers. Phonebooks, internet searches, websites, now virtual-mobile directories. A business has to find what their customers use and be the best in that form of market contact.

It would seem the .TEL as a virtual directory by geography or type of commerce is the forefront of the new search engine results…mobile search. It may be the break thorough mobile internet needs. The current mobile internet is useless. Why get left behind for $300? That is the minimum cost of one phonebook ad per month. There are at least twelve phonebooks in my little business area (one Neilson market.) Compare the cost of the .TEL domain to a billboard, newspaper ad, or pay-per-click campaign. Try “buying” the keyword that attracts internet searchers to your website? A simple, consistent way for customers to contact your small business (or more correctly remember how to contact you.) That is a requirement for all those other forms of advertising. Now your brand can be the means of contacting you. Maybe the nay-sayers here are web developers of some sort that don’t want to encourage the potential independence a .TEL listing could provide for small business. Compare “towing” listed for your area on the internet to those in your local phone book and you can see the potential for .TEL. I get it.

http://www.ricklatona.com/2009/02/2...eople-behind-tel/comment-page-1/#comment-2697

Cliff has got it absolutely spot on.

I'm guessing here, perhaps jumping to a false conclusing, but a lot of the kids here, they've never actually run a real bricks and mortar business, sure they've sold an article or two and they think that gives them the right to be entrepreneurs or real business people in a real business world (what a joke), most of them just spout out this rubbish without really thinking through what they are indeed saying and their comprehension of facts very sadly so, seems to be direly lacking.

Perhaps it's too many years of playing with themselves online, I don't know, but I'm sure a lot of this younger generation, they don't half spout out some crap sometimes, without fully understanding all the facts.

If only some of them researched more instead of being so full of themselves, less shallow, more integrity, they could perhaps see the very real work and positive benefits that go on behind the scenes to putting some of these excellent concepts together, in the true spirit of entrepreneurialism rather than simply bashing them without any real basis for doing so, other than to shout their egotistical opinions from the rooftops.

 

Moreover guys .Tel is too costly

 

A miserly $9-11 is too expensive?

Where the hec do you live?

 

Everyone has their own opinion

If you like the prospect of a domain extension that the non-marketing public is never going to remember, that's up to you. The rest of the population is going to continue using Google Maps, Mapquest & Yellowpages.com.

 

I registered two .tel's

damiano.tel (my last name)
and
nyclimousine.tel (my father runs a limo business in and out of NYC, curious to see if this tel can help in the future.)

 

Mark, I'm ignoring you.

It's pointless as I said trying to discuss this with you.

 

Got several .tel domains:

foy dot tel
nim dot tel
escorting dot tel
stupid dot tel
noob dot tel

All of the above are regged at dynadot.com for just $10.9 each.

Geo locations such as city and county names are the best with .tel I believe, but most of them are gone when GA is launched.

However, still a lot of generic names available as of now. 4-letter and 5-letter pronunciables are an abundance. Just give it a try to see, guys. Merely hundreds of bucks in the upcoming 5 - 10 years to prove this. Either .tel will make it or not, let's just see.

All investments are risky in nature. No one can be 100% sure of its future value until the real future - years from now. Just go for it and never regret the investment as you'll never know. When twitter launched, who the heck saw any substantial potential in the tiny app that couldn't be any more simple and stupid. Yet it's now become the queen of social media.

 

but still.. after reading these above discussion, i am stil unconvinced over one thing.. The resale value of .TEL domains

i have pagerank.tel.. so if i resell it what can i expect.. BTW i deleted my domain dofollow.tel.. so anyone wants it can have it right away

 

What you think about:
southampton.tel
bridgetown.tel
irishhotels.tel
herzegovina.tel?

 

I have several .tel domains registrated - most of them are german ones. From Sex to gambling all mixed and ready for resell or for renting!

busen.tel
fotze.tel
fotzen.tel
gewinn.tel
gewinnspiel.tel
handycasino.tel
handypoker.tel
handysex.tel
klingelton.tel
logos.tel
mieten.tel
nutte.tel
pokern.tel
porno24.tel
rechts.tel
schnee.tel
seelsorge.tel
sex24.tel
slot.tel
stau.tel
titten.tel
wahrsager.tel
wette.tel
wetten.tel

 

if you people have a business running then you can certainly have it..
But for that matter i wud prefer mobi.. bcos i can use it for hosting my sites too...

TEL domains are nothing but iCard.. 11$ for tht..

 

i got my .tel domain on my name. Cheers!!

tanbir dot tel.

 

I am becoming more tempted with this (.tel) as I am Struggling to find a reasonable (.com) for my next project! I just wonder if it can ever become one of the big hitters! Still not too sure on it.

 

As I've pointed out, most amateur domain speculators will never see the point of .Tel and that is precisely the point, it was not designed to build an ordinary website upon or for that matter, for the purpose of registering names willy nilly, in the hope that one can make a fast buck, flipping them onto to someone else.

.Tel has been launched after 9 years in the planning for a completely different purpose, a contact business card if you like, where you can store all of your contact details in one place, absolutely everything, from your address and home tel number to your mobile numbers, sms, fax, skype whatever you like. You can share what info you want with others or keep parts of your contact information completely private, the choice is yours.

You meet someone in the street, a chance meeting, you've not got the time to swap all your details over to this person, all you have to do is to simply tell them to go to yourname.tel and there they can see all of your contact information all in one place, including your website link and your chosen keywords.

.Tel is particularly well suited to mobile and hand held users on the move.

It's not like .mobi which serves very little purpose indeed, this is actually from .Tel an exceedingly useful function.

Now, supposing you have something like Colorado.tel

You could set up a directory on that .tel alongside a .com .whatever and charge others for listing their businesses in your .tel directory, in different folders, again with all their contact details, web address etc.

Or you could have a .tel suited to a specific trade, for example webdesigners.tel and then offer listings in your directory for that niche.

You can use the .tel for your own personal use or for business use.

Many companies pay hundreds and often thousands of pounds / dollars to be listed in trade magazines, directories etc.

With a .tel for a mere $10 give or take a few cents, you can be listed for as long as you keep the .tel name, it's a pittance the amount compared to the great service this offers to you and a huge convenience.

A company may have many branches throughout the world, or in different states or counties, areas, now all of those contact details for all of those branches and departments within those branches, all those contact details can be stored under yourname.tel enabling people within the organisation and clients too, to locate exactly what they need to find very fast indeed.

It's a huge business directory, a business card on your mobile phone, just give out your name and voila, no need to fumble around with long phone numbers and a host of other details, go to for example Anthony.tel and all thhis contact info is there and he can choose who see's that information.

It's brilliantly simple.

If you come at this purely from the domain speculation of view you are completely missing the point, it hasn't been designed with you in mind.

It's a very simple product concept that has huge advantages to everyone, everywhere and costs a miserly ten bucks per year, saving you oodles of time and hassle, speeding up communication between people.

How neat is that?

Now, do you get it?

 

hmm.. the ad video for the .TEL domain in the telnic.org was really great. Yes u can exchange the contact details with others as an ibuinesscard... but i think this domain shud be priced lower just like the info domains.. 10$ is too much for just holding ur contact details,...

EDIT :
Also i hd bought pagerank.tel with the intention of having a pagerank related script.. but all in vain..

 

It's more than that.

It's a trifling, absolutely piffling amount of money for the functionality, usefulness that this service provides business owners especially with.

$10 - What's that, a couple of coffee's, and you say it's too expensive?

That just doesn't make any sense. Your happy enough to buy a couple of coffee's for ten bucks but not pay the same for a very useful service, for a whole year?

What?!

PageRank.tel ??? How would that one work? This is exactly what I mean. Half of you, if not more, simply cannot understand the concept of this, what it actually does for you and that is where precisely, you are going wrong.

Your'e coming at this from the wrong angle.

You naysayers, you need to look at this differently and take the blinkers off, from obscuring your sight.

No offense.

If you just looked at it properly, you might actually see the usefulness of this for a lot of business people.

Just because it's not the product for you, doesn't mean the product itself is crap.

It could be very good for you if you were in the position of not only understanding the concept but realising in an instant, what it can do for you, in terms of organising one's contacts and streamlining much more effective communications simply and quickly.

 

I think .tel is at 14 minutes and counting.. Just one minute left of fame..

I've looked them over and just don't see "any" added value to that TLD.. It simply makes no sense on any level.. Just like every other TLD that has come and gone, there will be fans of them, usually people who bought in heavily early looking for the next golden shower.. We have yet to see a TLD be even remotely as successful as people originally claimed it would be.. mobi, tv, fm, cd, etc., all have their little niche followers, but for 99% of the world they are a waste of time and space..