Justin Hayward explains why .Tel has no chance to survive

Justin Hayward on 10-17-2011 wrote:Mike, always assume there's nothing going on, that 'what you see is what you get' and base your use of .tel and your domain purchases accordingly. As with previous requests of this nature, we never respond to requests for information on which to base an investment strategy. We are a Registry Operator and do not provide investment advice.

Regards
Justin

• No websites for .tel!
  
• No development for .tel!
  
• No additional features for .tel in the future!
  
• No innovation for .tel!
  
• No interest in growth!
  
• No activity beyond administration of domain names!
  

TelBlogger wrote:The conclusion is clear: dump your .tels because in its current form it is clearly the very worst of all the many domain extensions available.

247 wrote:Meaning:

• No websites for .tel!
  
• No development for .tel!
  
• No additional features for .tel in the future!
  
• No innovation for .tel!
  
• No interest in growth!
  
• No activity beyond administration of domain names!
  

Toptel wrote:

247 wrote:Meaning:

• No websites for .tel!
  
• No development for .tel!
  
• No additional features for .tel in the future!
  
• No innovation for .tel!
  
• No interest in growth!
  
• No activity beyond administration of domain names!
  

... no directory!

Justin Hayward on 09-14-2011 wrote:Mike

You obviously think we have been sitting on our hands for two and a half years. Quite frankly, that is an extremely derogatory comment to the people that work here.

What you seem to have overlooked is that there are a lot of moving parts when it comes to doing deals with .tel. Some of these are out of our control.

An example. Last year we had a very positive reaction from a major European high street retailer of mobile phones who was looking to integrate the .tel offer into their web offering. They loved the product, saw a good fit and liked the apps we had developed. However, when it came to the crunch, the registrar they were looking to work with let the whole thing down with the purchase process, and interest went dead. Will we get a second chance? I don't know.

I am not going to outline all of the efforts that we have gone to and continue to undertake to engage with the very companies that you're talking about. And to refer to a press release from Siter that sponsored the ICANN conference of proof that we're doing nothing in this arena is poor show. Sitter uses a proprietary database of non-live information and which provides just one way of interacting with a company - by phone. I'm not decrying their efforts and we keep a close eye on developments.

Getting a phone manufacturer to embed a domain dialler in their handset is a huge challenge. Have we been talking to companies about it? Sure. Do you know how many layers of people you have to go through, how quickly people join and leave these organisations and how many priorities they have?

So whilst I appreciate you are frustrated, please remember that actually we are all working to deliver a common goal. We also have priorities to work through and are aware of the pressure of time. So whilst we appreciate the candour of the discussion in this forum, please again be aware that when we have successes we will share them and where there are things that don't go so well, rather than apportion blame, we move on and work to achieve what we can in another direction.

247 wrote:Justin Hayward shows indeed no signs of activity:

Justin Hayward on 09-14-2011 wrote:Mike

What you seem to have overlooked is that there are a lot of moving parts when it comes to doing deals with .tel. Some of these are out of our control.

However, when it came to the crunch, the registrar they were looking to work with let the whole thing down with the purchase process, and interest went dead. Will we get a second chance? I don't know.

We also have priorities to work through and are aware of the pressure of time.

If it was true what he said, why nobody has heard from Telnic during the last 3 years?

Toptel wrote:... he is overwhelmed with this job.

HeavenAndHell wrote:It isn't the fault of Justin that he isn't able to sell an useless product.

Toptel wrote:

HeavenAndHell wrote:It isn't the fault of Justin that he isn't able to sell an useless product.

Is it not his responsibility to develop a usable one?

mikeseaton wrote:But he IS responsible for developing Telnic's business in the marketplace and for communicating with everyone regarding Telnic's .tel product.

silvano wrote:Justin now is a writer.

https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Justin_K_Hayward_The_Luck_Particle?id=h8tGAwAAQBAJ

247 wrote:Justin Hayward explains why .Tel has no chance to survive

Justin Hayward wrote:Over the past few years, I've been slowly kicking about a story into novel format. It's been a long and difficult process, but I'm pleased to say it's now here.

247 wrote:Justin Hayward explains why .Tel has no chance to survive

di7 wrote:

247 wrote:Justin Hayward explains why .Tel has no chance to survive

Justin Hayward wrote:Over the past few years, I've been slowly kicking about a story into novel format. It's been a long and difficult process, but I'm pleased to say it's now here.

http://retrospectivefutureologist.blogspot.de/2014/03/the-luck-particle.html

I'm currently starting to frame the second book in terms of where the story goes from here.

mikeseaton wrote:looks like we won't get much "communication" from Justin in the future either