.Tel me your thoughts?

[cee]

Originally Posted by victornumber

anyone know if .tel are resellable as my registrar has no grace period. Have kpu.tel. Think its possible to sell to kwantlan p university or kpu telecommunications or it would cause more trouble than its worth?

At this point in time, if anyone with money wanted that domain, they would have purchased it before you. Unfortunately, it would be more trouble to resell it than the $10-20 you spent on it. If you can't grace delete it through the Web interface, you might consider calling your registrar. All registrars have the ability, but sometimes you must call and talk to a manager to have it deleted. If they refuse to allow you to delete it, just hope for something positive in the future for .tel that will increase its value!

Speaking of value, the stats I've been keeping are interesting (first post of this thread). The deletion rate is continuing to climb at Dynadot and it's reflected in the amount of .tel domains Google has indexed. Think the CEO of Telnic is getting the hint yet that he needs to rethink his business plan? Nevertheless, almost all the domains I dropped have been snatched within 24 hours of me dropping them! :-\

[eksperts]

Anyone try how many phone numbers I can write under .tel? 100... 1000... million?

[PRED]

Originally Posted by eksperts

Anyone try how many phone numbers I can write under .tel? 100... 1000... million?

zero

min number of character 3
and you cannot have 3 numbers , or 4, there has to be a letter in with them etc.
a nuts decision imho

[woeger]

I think the poster is asking how many telephone numbers can be stored under a single .TEL domain in the data records.

Not sure the maximum data records/numbers/web links that you can list under a particular .TEL, but no straight numbers are currently allowed the actual .TEL domain name like PRED said above.

[eksperts]

Originally Posted by woeger

I think the poster is asking how many telephone numbers can be stored under a single .TEL domain in the data records.
...

Yes, thank you. Sorry for my english.

[woeger]

Thought that is what you were asking.

You might want to go to telnic.org to help find your answer, and look under the "Developer" area, as they have a forum, .TEL tools, a FAQ, and much more. You might even get a reply from one of their developers as to the maximum number of telephone entries or other data that can be stored in a single .TEL domain.

Let us know if you find out, please...

[cee]

Well, it looks like the number of .tel domains indexed by Google has climbed since yesterday, but the deletion rate at Dynadot continues to increase.

Originally Posted by eksperts

Anyone try how many phone numbers I can write under .tel? 100... 1000... million?

I would imagine that they would not limit the amount of entries you can add. In theory, this would be ideal for their system. However, in practice, this is not possible. But I would hope that they would not impose a limit unless it is necessary due to abuse, e.g.: someone creates a program to make millions upon millions of entries just to hog down their servers. At that point, I would imagine they still would not impose a limit, but rather implement a captcha or some sort of rate limit for which you can add entries.

[Acro]

The mere fact that these actions cee mentioned are technically possible proves that .tel is the first TLD ever to go live while in beta.

[whitebark]

Originally Posted by cee

Well, it looks like the number of .tel domains indexed by Google has climbed since yesterday, but the deletion rate at Dynadot continues to increase.
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Is the rate climbing because they are completely unable to actually make them active? Two of mine still say pending create after three full days - aka - useless domains.

[Acro]

No, a lot were being tasted.

The 'pending create' is even more confusing when in fact they are registered. You need to log into the CTH panel and enter some contact info.

[whitebark]

Originally Posted by victornumber

anyone know if .tel are resellable as my registrar has no grace period. Have kpu.tel. Think its possible to sell to kwantlan p university or kpu telecommunications or it would cause more trouble than its worth?

kwantlen is a community college - they don't have extra money for that kind of thing.

Originally Posted by Acro

No, a lot were being tasted.

The 'pending create' is even more confusing when in fact they are registered. You need to log into the CTH panel and enter some contact info.

I did three days ago. Only one of three I bought were even added to the telhosting account... The one that was still doesn't resolve either.

.wasteofmoney

[cee]

If they are in the pendingCreate state, you can't even grace delete them. Yet, your grace period is still running, which is completely unorthodox if you ask me! Hopefully no one is stuck in that state through their entire grace period, that would be criminal!

If your .tel domains are not showing up in your Telhost account, that is most likely a problem with your registrar and you need to contact them to add the domains.

Originally Posted by whitebark

I did three days ago. Only one of three I bought were even added to the telhosting account... The one that was still doesn't resolve either.

You must log-in and add at least one contact entry to your domain. If you have done this and it still does not resolve, you can try hidemyass.com or another proxy service to see if your problem is cache related (can take up to 24 hours for your ISP to update the DNS record).

[whitebark]

www.shitty.tel

does it work for anyone?

Ive add "lots" of stuff. As in what feeble amounts they allow!

[cee]

Or sure, you could use us as a proxy service. If that is seriously your domain, your problem is that it is in the pendingCreate state, so obviously you cannot access something that hasn't been created yet. You must wait until it is created and you can add a contact entry to the domain through Telhosting.

[whitebark]

But that's the thing - I can access it already in my telhosting account.

As for the state - dynadot just keeps saying "status should change soon".

.useless

Heck even a .mobi can be used immediately after being registered! LOL
Go mobi!

[cee]

Maybe they don't appreciate your domain and are making it especially difficult for you.

Are you sure you've set a contact method on the domain and added some header text? Are you sure it saved successfully (if you log out of your Telhost account and back in, is it displayed)?

[bigboydog_0]

fiberoptics.tel
kck.tel
kcmo.tel
mycricket.tel

[cee]

Originally Posted by bigboydog_0

fiberoptics.tel
kck.tel
kcmo.tel
mycricket.tel

Ouch, all of yours are in the same boat as well. Sorry. :(

[woeger]

I have had no problems with .TEL domains I have registered through either Dynadot and Moniker. I logged into the CTH control panel and all my domains were there (about 5 for each registrar account, for about 10 total .TEL domains). I have 2 different CTH accounts, 1 for each registrar.

I add contact info and it usually takes up to 12 hours to switch from PendingCreate to OK status in the WHOIS, and for the names to Resolve on the Net. Sometimes there is a lag in the updated info showing up in my .TEL domains that I add or change being posted, sometimes not. I guess it depends on if they are doing back end work on the .TEL system. Since .TEL domains are not intended to have the contact info/data changed that often, this is acceptable. I am not expecting instantaneous data updates from .TEL.

[cee]

Anyone have a .tel domain that is indexed by Google? I submitted all mine and not a single one is indexed. Yet, things like www.snoopdogg.tel are indexed?