Not a good idea.

First, I am owner of almost 200 TEL domains, and I have so far the most sophisticated software for management of TEL domains, TEL advertising and other features. I am programmer and I know TEL domains very well. Personally I have use for them, but as a matter of fact, it was a mistake, as I could register bunch of .INFO domains and have 1000% more of the benefits than I get from the very limited TEL domain.

Your statement comparing TEL domains to communities such as Facebook is bullshit.

Try finding your long time not seen friends on TEL domain, and try finding them on Facebook.

You should not compare 200,000 TEL domains owned by maybe ONE QUARTER of that number, maybe 50,000 TEL domain owners, to the Facebook, having millions of users. It is not comparable. Not yet. Not now. Not in 10 years.

TEL is the WORST idea ever invented in TLD business.

It does not even work on the mobile phone as it should. It shows just some ugly page. Someone was working to have it ugly.

Man!

Don’t try to delude people. TEL is usable, but .INFO is usable as well. MOBI, COM and NET and even .COM.PA is usable.

TEL offers to people basic Internet presence. We cannot speak of “mobile” presence, because their marketing is simply wrong and false.

Even Google Site looks pretty well on mobile phone in comparison to TEL domain.

All in all? One stop shop and easy way to gather ones info.

Me personally?
All have all my info under a sub domain of a tel and one is a link to my Store on xstreetsl and yes I do get traffic through there.

I am very much convinced that TEL domain is a disaster, and I was speaking on that since 6 months, until TELNIC decided to block me on their public forum, and to remove any complaints from their public support forum on GetSatisfaction.Com.

Now, you have said that last names are a good investment.

You see, in the real world, to offer any investment, one has to have founded facts, statistics, examples, research and to show that investment is really working.

Your calculation looks attractive.

But the final result or final test is: does it work?

So, let me know if there is anyone making money on last names with TEL domains?

Thanks,
Jean Louis

Those last names are an absolute gold mine, why? because once someone develops a site to offer the domain owner to put their last name .tel into a pool of last names offered up to an end user at $1+ per profile, the last name owner will pull in more then $1500+ year.

The model is simple and anyone should be able to work it out, if you read above you have people who have cried on the Telnic forums due to being banned for causing mayhem, and not understanding what future .tel has, so they go off trying to destroy things for everyone else.

It’s baby mentality! Grow up! you invested and invested wrong so stop crying and reinvest correctly.

This is the model it’s a phone book easy to understand?

You buy last names, so you buy aniston.tel

You offer the end user a first name profile, so perhaps her first name is Jennifer we get a first.last.tel page with forwarding email first@last.tel.

So we end up with jennifer.aniston.tel paying $1 a year for a profile, with a forwarding email jennifer@aniston.tel

Now why would jennifer aniston want and need this?

Well because lets imagine jennifer.aniston needs to attend events in various online places to promote some new movie, now if she wanted to do some PR event in a virtual world or space or perhaps in a facebook 3D chat it would involve spending massive amounts of money to create her celebrity avatar for xx times the amount of places she needs to visit.

Now if she was given a profile page at jennifer.aniston.tel and we install an avatar that she or her publicist need only 1 passport photo to create the PRO3D avatar which she can take to every compatible 3D facebook event or 3D chat or even a virtual world.

Then it’s worth it to her because she only will ever need to login with her sub profile .tel id.

Telnic can do this by working with DAZ3D.com the world leaders for 3D avatars and avatar content

And install http://www.digimi.com/newsite/presite/home.jsp full 3D avatars from a single photo.

As for normal end users, everyone will want an avatar and online profile because to be without it means they must constantly remake a new avatar on a per service basis.

Now take a look at Second Life who is working on a 3D embedded version for facebook, and you should imagine that if the end user had a first.last.tel they could use in Second Life and other facebook games just by logging in, then it would make billions for facebook in avatar content through a daz3d multi-branded marketplace.

And FYI .tel is not loosing Steam, if we’re going to play the pun game? let’s play!

Then I must say Hello, I’m Steam known as an in Second Life developer/second life mentor currently working on behalf of DAZ3D’s forum administrator and in-world estate manager on rebuilding DAZ Island.

I know DAZ3D, I know Telnic, and I know Second Life and what’s possible is not impossible to push for.

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Take this scenario for example. It is the year 2015 and I am in my car trying to find the telephone number to my friend. Accessing his easy to remember .TEL is quicker than accessing a webpage and looking for the ‘Contact Us’ page.

But that is completely wrong. If it is your friend, his phone number will be in your mobile phone.

First guy they need to dump is the useless Henri, a CTO they have flying around the planet acting as their number one sales professional…it’s NOT WORKING.

The need to face it, the domain is losing steam and the promise of a new way to communicate did not resonate. Better shift gears quick or prepare to wind up on the trash heap of domains.

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