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.Tel Running Total by .Tel Type @Mark @dottel.net @anyoneelse Is there any easy way you could generate and place on your site a running total of .tels by: - Telnames nameservers - Telnic nameservers - TelChina nameservers That would get me and quite a few others visiting your site regularly to check the way things are going ! Mike Seaton |
I already have that info - just don't publish it Only thought folks would be interested in total and idn count hence thats what is displayed in the middle of http://dottel.net |
as always - if folks find that useful then i'll show the two counts. the telnic nameservers would be all the remaining sites not on either telchina or telnames |
Thanks dottel.net - I think we are all very interested in how Telnames registrations in particular progress in the next few weeks and months. Is Telnames the answer to the current 300K reg plateau .tel is facing ? I do hope so - the reg figures for Telnames servers will let us know one way or the other ! Mike Seaton |
lets just say that right now, the telnames number is hardly moving if it does its in single digits daily.... that's due to there not being any marketing drive so nobody really knows about it or has heard about it.... as I said in an earlier post, the interesting stat will be how this number changes over the bstartup week later this month. |
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I wouldn't place too much emphasis on results from this forthcoming London-based event - Telnames needs to think big and could have an International Affiliate Program up and running by this mid-May event if they so wished. http://www.CJ.com and http://www.TradeDoubler.com have the infrastructure already in place and hundreds of thousands of affiliates signed-up and able to promote .tel worldwide (provided the affiliate deal is fair). It only takes a phone call form Kash or colleagues (and a few K) to set things in motion - everything after is performance-based (with a monthly minimum charge). Mike Seaton[/size] |
Yep, agree with Sunil re marketing. In fact y'day there were only 2 registrations... so it's easy to track them right now. When the expo promotion starts, I'll try to keep up with the thousands they better be selling. Mark |
@mike, Telnames is priced where domain sales affiliates could actually make money. Mark |
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Yes I agree - it is important though that Telnames do not restrict affiliates from making commission on their own domain names. That way bulk .tel owners who become affiliates get a discount to persuade them to transfer to Telnames, but the SMB and Professional person sales that Telnames are targeting (who will purchase/transfer 1 domain only) pay the full retail price. Just like the way normal non-domain business works ! Mike Seaton[/size] |
Well Telnames won't be doing much business in the surname department - there are none left for them to sell! |
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Surname .tels are a dead duck as far as Telnames are concerned anyway - to set up a surname .tel with several first names (eg. john.smith, sue.smith, etc.) you need to be able to have subdomains available. Mike Seaton[/size] |
Telnames.com has headings like What is a .tel, How it works, who is it for? etc. Granted it has in the small print phrases like a .tel name is etc. I suppose to distinguish it from a full .tel. My point is, is it not misleading as it doesn't give the full picture and although I've not read it all, I don't think it mentions the original .tel and the differences. Hence people reading this will think that this is all a .tel is. Is that their intention, if not I think a clearer explanation is required. |
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I think Telnames would be committing marketing suicide if they attempted to describe both .tel products on their site - confusing newbies with alternatives (only one of which Telnames supplies) would definitely not be a smart move for them ! Mike Seaton[/size] |
Of course it would not be the smartest move for telnames, but is it not misleading for telnic as a whole? |
If Telnames is selling a different, competing brand, they have to be real careful to separate the two offerings to avoid confusion and irate customers (I saw this but I bought that scenario). I know why Telnames has to present a different brand to show off against registrars, but I don't like it. I think they could easily have started selling upgraded Tel Domains (ie old tel with new Telnames features) at a higher price. Trouble is it may be too late now, as they spent a whole year developing their new offering at the expense of .Tel (no new templates, no new CTH functionality). They have to experiment with their new plan and hope it does very very well. Mark |
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This is the part of this whole issue... if what Telnames offers is indeed what so many customers want then it puzzles me why Telnic doesn't incorporate the Telnames option right into the standard offering, and give prospective customers a choice. There is another side to this which they apparently don't want to discuss. I think Mike is trying to put a good spin on it, but it doesn't make sense to say that Telnames is an improvement from the standard. It is prettier, but also in a way, it is Tel lite. I say put them all on the standard CTH platform and let customers decide - that would be the true test and yield the most benefits for Tel as a whole. What is keeping them from doing so?[/size] |
I'm happy to call it misleading as I only have a small investment in shall we say the multi as opposed to single page .tels. I've a feeling others with more of an investment in what may not be suitable single page names may put it a little stronger. |
I doubt that I will put any of my existing tels onto Tel-Lite. It makes no sense to do so. I have just picked up some generics which I will happily sell because they are in fact suitable for Tel-Lite and will make some new owners happy. This is something new for me, as until now, I have bought tels I wanted to develop. Now I am also buying tels for resale. What we need now is a brokerage that all registrars can see and tap into. Mark |
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Yes Mark - I think we all have to do the same thing now when buying .tel names - decide which of the two .tel products they are suitable for. It's a bit of a messy situation, as a newbie to .tel I would end up confused if I became aware of two diametrically opposed offerings (at least as far as the proxy display and CTH input is concerned) masquerading as the same extension. I'm sure Telnames will be spearheading the .tel marketing effort, with Kash & Fiona at the helm, and I just have this feeling that Telnic Ltd. the registry will be sold within a year or so (there are companies buying up minor gTLDs like .tel at the moment), otherwise why not just offer the new template as a Telnic TelHosting option available from all registrars ? If it's a bit unsettling for experienced forum menbers, what on earth must .tel newbies think of it when they discover two products exist not one ? Mike Seaton[/size] |
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agreed. sedo's premium listing service seems to be growing and be integrated with many registrars. problem for .tel is the $50 commission per name. we have our own sales site and have integrated for sale sites with Buy a Tel so should someone be searching for a name it not only lists drops, but for sale domains too. But that doesn't reach out to those all important end users like a sedo, godaddy etc does. it does at least entice those searching for 'drops' and based on the stats that number is rising daily. It's more then just forum users as the unique hits seems to be growing quite steadily, so somebody is looking for them :)[/size] |
