.tel = .fail

[ftaylor]

So, .TEL landrush starts in 6 minutes. $325 dollars for 3 years, for a glorified parking page that you can't move.

I doubt that .TEL will even get proper search engine recognition. If anything, I would expect to see expanded results on G - contact details being pulled right into search rather than the usual summary being shown.

Does anyone see positives?

 

[Theo]

8675309.tel

 

[ftaylor]

I don't get it, are you actually going to buy that?

 

[Theo]

No, the number was being sold on ebay and thought I'd make a joke.

 

[mjnels]

you're not even allowed to register pure numbered domains with .tel...

 

[Theo]

Oh well.

 

[mjnels]

dont act like you're not disappointed!

 

[Theo]

I only have one .mobi and the whole .tel scheme looks even worse than .asia

 

[Spex]

Would make for a great US Army recruiting page…

dontaskdont.tel

***if anyone registers that,please send me some DNFs***

 

[ftaylor]

haha that's a good idea, dontaskdont.tel. Only problem is that you couldn't fill it with amusing content, instead you get a generic parking style page. I wonder what the average .TEL site bounce rate will be. I'd put my money above 80%.

 

[Theo]

Ho.tel looks like the only good hack and yet you can't have LL's

 

[katherine]

With $325 you could buy a solid .com domain at Snapnames.

Well at least we now have an extension worse than .mobi to bash

 

[mjnels]

i wonder how many people still do not realize you cannot have a developed website on .TEL domains.... it is basically the same template for everyone... you are not allowed to modify the DNS settings.

im not knocking the idea really... i just dont think people are 100% clear on this. (especially not that horrible bot from namepros... whats its name... Jeff?)

 

[ftaylor]

Well, I am knocking it. It's a bad idea.

 

[kukgle]

One hour and a half past, most of premium word ran off.

Look like a high potential one.

 

[Theo]

At $325 a pop sounds like a lot of dough for a template single pager.

Well at least we now have an extension worse than .mobi to bash

How about mobi.tel

 

[mjnels]

more than 6x the amount of a landrush .mobi !!!

like i said, its not a bad idea in theory... but in practice, it will definitely prove difficult getting people to use a separate domain simply for contact information.... it is hard enough convincing people to use a separate domain for a mobile website that you can actually modify the DNS setting on...

 

[ftaylor]

You missed a trick Acro, what about asia.mobi.tel ? Surely that must be some kind of record in the domain suck stakes.

 

[kukgle]

What's about this john.richad.newyork.american.tel

 

[chillking]

.TEL is a joke you cannot develop them their only use is contact information for example if you went on a website but you wanted to contact them but you carnt fined their contact details if the site name was domain.com then to contact them domain.tel thats the idea but its a joke. I carnt evan think of what .tel names will get targeted traffic maybe food delivery ones thats a gues lol