Comments on: Old School Media Registers Bad Swine Flu Domain http://domainnamewire.com/2009/04/30/old-school-media-registers-bad-swine-flu-domain/ Domain Name Industry News and Views Sat, 26 May 2012 20:25:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Robert Haastrup-Timmi http://domainnamewire.com/2009/04/30/old-school-media-registers-bad-swine-flu-domain/comment-page-1/#comment-399061 Robert Haastrup-Timmi Mon, 04 May 2009 06:08:19 +0000 http://domainnamewire.com/?p=6041#comment-399061 "After seeing what people are doing with .tel’s I think my biggest concearn is are any of the end users going to take it seriously." JP, I think you may be taking the wrong perspective when analysing the significance of .tel. However, that is not at all suprising. I have made several comments before that a lot of domainers IMO are just speculators and not creative asset developers. Domainers crucified .TV, yet a lot of people and businesses have developed excellent .TV web sites. Take a look at 2 simple .TV sites I have personally developed and now make thousands of pounds in revenue, only within a few months with a little creativity: http://www.londonapartment.tv http://www.londonhome.tv So what is the potential for .Tel? Well, if you diagnose what we have here carefully, .tel provides "Vertical" Directories that can be developed to enhance ease of navigation, swift contact and a conduit to several niche industries. Take a look at GreenSupplies.Tel, still very early days, but here again, my idea is to provide a vertical directory, focused on the massive "Green" Industry. I would only need a few businesses to pay a modest annual fee of say $250 to start making serious money! For the end user, he or she can ultimately relate to a focused directory for Green products and services, as the .tel site develops and evolves. Try using a .tel site from your iPhone and you begin to realize, how easy it is to click to call or click to peruse a website that is listed with all the essential contact details in the .tel, with a brief description. Let me say this, I started with the web at Macromedia when we first developed Dreamweaver 1.0 and I have watched this entire internet media evolve. It appears to me, that some domainers are like all the naysayers that totally ignored the potential of the internet itself when things first got started...where are those naysayers today? A lot of them have gone under from ignorance. I strongly suggest you look beyond the parochiality of domaining itself and try to assess the full potential of the TLD and what it may evolve into. Dot Tel looks like the first of its kind as a TLD, and may actually help so many businesses that are listed in the yellow pages but have no web presence at all. No wonder why British Telecom I understand is very interested in marketing .Tel. Infact, yellow pages and super pages, may now be in the final death rows just like newspapers, because .Tel allows anyone to create niche directories on the fly, that are focused and much easier to navigate on any device 24/7! My advise, be patient, be creative and carefully consider what you can achieve with the right .tel. For my part, I only reg .tels that I feel I can personally develop, e.g HotelAccommodation.tel, here again I have found a major supplier and will cleverly lead users to bookings where I will get a decent piece of the action...trust me! Big Hug! Robert. “After seeing what people are doing with .tel’s I think my biggest concearn is are any of the end users going to take it seriously.”

JP, I think you may be taking the wrong perspective when analysing the significance of .tel. However, that is not at all suprising. I have made several comments before that a lot of domainers IMO are just speculators and not creative asset developers.

Domainers crucified .TV, yet a lot of people and businesses have developed excellent .TV web sites. Take a look at 2 simple .TV sites I have personally developed and now make thousands of pounds in revenue, only within a few months with a little creativity:

http://www.londonapartment.tv
http://www.londonhome.tv

So what is the potential for .Tel? Well, if you diagnose what we have here carefully, .tel provides “Vertical” Directories that can be developed to enhance ease of navigation, swift contact and a conduit to several niche industries.

Take a look at GreenSupplies.Tel, still very early days, but here again, my idea is to provide a vertical directory, focused on the massive “Green” Industry. I would only need a few businesses to pay a modest annual fee of say $250 to start making serious money! For the end user, he or she can ultimately relate to a focused directory for Green products and services, as the .tel site develops and evolves.

Try using a .tel site from your iPhone and you begin to realize, how easy it is to click to call or click to peruse a website that is listed with all the essential contact details in the .tel, with a brief description.

Let me say this, I started with the web at Macromedia when we first developed Dreamweaver 1.0 and I have watched this entire internet media evolve. It appears to me, that some domainers are like all the naysayers that totally ignored the potential of the internet itself when things first got started…where are those naysayers today? A lot of them have gone under from ignorance.

I strongly suggest you look beyond the parochiality of domaining itself and try to assess the full potential of the TLD and what it may evolve into.

Dot Tel looks like the first of its kind as a TLD, and may actually help so many businesses that are listed in the yellow pages but have no web presence at all. No wonder why British Telecom I understand is very interested in marketing .Tel. Infact, yellow pages and super pages, may now be in the final death rows just like newspapers, because .Tel allows anyone to create niche directories on the fly, that are focused and much easier to navigate on any device 24/7!

My advise, be patient, be creative and carefully consider what you can achieve with the right .tel. For my part, I only reg .tels that I feel I can personally develop, e.g HotelAccommodation.tel, here again I have found a major supplier and will cleverly lead users to bookings where I will get a decent piece of the action…trust me!

Big Hug!
Robert.

]]> By: jp http://domainnamewire.com/2009/04/30/old-school-media-registers-bad-swine-flu-domain/comment-page-1/#comment-398713 jp Sun, 03 May 2009 19:21:38 +0000 http://domainnamewire.com/?p=6041#comment-398713 After seeing what people are doing with .tel's I think my biggest concearn is are any of the end users going to take it seriously. So there are going to be all these generic.tel's like doctors.tel, swineflu.tel, diseases.tel, and so on right? All populated with contact information and links that the domainer puts in. So when I am searching for contact info for some kind of doctor, which .tel has the right phone number and/or email address and links listed? The nice thing about a "real" web page is that a "real" webpage can try to persuade you that this Doctor is the best because his webpage is most professional. If I search for a doctor and find nothing but rolodex cards all of which seem to be the right thing I might just ignore them all and look for a "real" webpage. In other words are .tel pages going to be recieved by the end users in the same manner as a parked page? I find parked pages can be a bit more colorful and convincing. Perhaps .tel will evolve in the same manner that parked pages are. After seeing what people are doing with .tel’s I think my biggest concearn is are any of the end users going to take it seriously. So there are going to be all these generic.tel’s like doctors.tel, swineflu.tel, diseases.tel, and so on right? All populated with contact information and links that the domainer puts in. So when I am searching for contact info for some kind of doctor, which .tel has the right phone number and/or email address and links listed? The nice thing about a “real” web page is that a “real” webpage can try to persuade you that this Doctor is the best because his webpage is most professional. If I search for a doctor and find nothing but rolodex cards all of which seem to be the right thing I might just ignore them all and look for a “real” webpage. In other words are .tel pages going to be recieved by the end users in the same manner as a parked page? I find parked pages can be a bit more colorful and convincing. Perhaps .tel will evolve in the same manner that parked pages are.

]]> By: Andrew Allemann http://domainnamewire.com/2009/04/30/old-school-media-registers-bad-swine-flu-domain/comment-page-1/#comment-396674 Andrew Allemann Fri, 01 May 2009 14:12:19 +0000 http://domainnamewire.com/?p=6041#comment-396674 @ Robert - true. I was thinking more of one-way links instead of swaped links. @ Robert – true. I was thinking more of one-way links instead of swaped links.

]]> By: Robert Haastrup-Timmi http://domainnamewire.com/2009/04/30/old-school-media-registers-bad-swine-flu-domain/comment-page-1/#comment-396650 Robert Haastrup-Timmi Fri, 01 May 2009 13:36:14 +0000 http://domainnamewire.com/?p=6041#comment-396650 Andrew, I'm assuming that is an objective question and not a rhetorical one. There are so many reasons why people will link to a .tel. The first being, it is probably the easiest way so far to exchange links with any website if that is waht you want to do. Think about this very carefully, I reg'd swineflu.tel for $12.00, no hosting fee and I already have a presence, even in google and just within a few days! Now if I want to go through all the trouble, I could exchange links with tons of doctors, medical centers, clinics etc... and it only takes a few minutes to link each website from my computer or cell phone anywhere 24/7! Once users begin to realize the simplicity of navigation online or through their cell phones, any .tel site that focuses on a specific genre or market industry can win big! You can either charge a monthly or annual listing fee, or do deals like I will be trying to do with AutoSupply.tel for drop shipping with an exclusive Auto supplier. Domainers should really wake up an smell the roses here. Swineflu.com still has to be developed, hosted, designed bla, bla, bla... swineflu.tel however just within a few minutes already provides some essential guide for those who may need that kind of help and can start taking listing immediately! Andrew, I’m assuming that is an objective question and not a rhetorical one. There are so many reasons why people will link to a .tel.

The first being, it is probably the easiest way so far to exchange links with any website if that is waht you want to do. Think about this very carefully, I reg’d swineflu.tel for $12.00, no hosting fee and I already have a presence, even in google and just within a few days! Now if I want to go through all the trouble, I could exchange links with tons of doctors, medical centers, clinics etc… and it only takes a few minutes to link each website from my computer or cell phone anywhere 24/7!

Once users begin to realize the simplicity of navigation online or through their cell phones, any .tel site that focuses on a specific genre or market industry can win big! You can either charge a monthly or annual listing fee, or do deals like I will be trying to do with AutoSupply.tel for drop shipping with an exclusive Auto supplier.

Domainers should really wake up an smell the roses here. Swineflu.com still has to be developed, hosted, designed bla, bla, bla… swineflu.tel however just within a few minutes already provides some essential guide for those who may need that kind of help and can start taking listing immediately!

]]> By: Andrew Allemann http://domainnamewire.com/2009/04/30/old-school-media-registers-bad-swine-flu-domain/comment-page-1/#comment-396585 Andrew Allemann Fri, 01 May 2009 12:10:51 +0000 http://domainnamewire.com/?p=6041#comment-396585 The key would be that there must be links pointing to the .tel for a competitive keyword. And why would many people link to a .tel? The key would be that there must be links pointing to the .tel for a competitive keyword. And why would many people link to a .tel?

]]> By: jp http://domainnamewire.com/2009/04/30/old-school-media-registers-bad-swine-flu-domain/comment-page-1/#comment-396346 jp Fri, 01 May 2009 05:46:09 +0000 http://domainnamewire.com/?p=6041#comment-396346 I'm glad that .tel is in fact showing up in search results. And @Robert, I'm impressed with the innovative thinking. I hope it pans out for you. You sure reg'd alot of .tels. It will be interesting to see if swineflu.tel makes the front page on "swine flu". So now the new challenge is can anyone find .tel in search results for a keyword with search volume? I’m glad that .tel is in fact showing up in search results. And @Robert, I’m impressed with the innovative thinking. I hope it pans out for you. You sure reg’d alot of .tels. It will be interesting to see if swineflu.tel makes the front page on “swine flu”.

So now the new challenge is can anyone find .tel in search results for a keyword with search volume?

]]> By: D http://domainnamewire.com/2009/04/30/old-school-media-registers-bad-swine-flu-domain/comment-page-1/#comment-396319 D Fri, 01 May 2009 04:35:19 +0000 http://domainnamewire.com/?p=6041#comment-396319 [8] JP - google "nationwide limited specialize" and you get .tel as result [8]
JP – google “nationwide limited specialize” and you get .tel as result

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