Registrations

Today .tel went under 129,000 registrations. The thing about c r a p is sooner or later it gets expelled through the anus.

Current registrations: 128,968

In any case only one-word domains, which are English dictionary words could have value in the future.

Besides, such domains with possible future value should be nouns, which describe services, businesses, names of goods, popular people names, names of big cities and popular Geo-locations.

How much of such words exist at all: 5 - 10 thousands? So the number of registrations, which could "survive" drops because of the hope that after years of waiting, one nice day they will come into demand is also 5 - 10 thousands.

maxi wrote:In any case only one-word domains, which are English dictionary words could have value in the future.

Besides, such domains with possible future value should be nouns, which describe services, businesses, names of goods, popular people names, names of big cities and popular Geo-locations.

How much of such words exist at all: 5 - 10 thousands? So the number of registrations, which could "survive" drops because of the hope that after years of waiting, one nice day they will come into demand is also 5 - 10 thousands.

The value in these types of registrations are for TLDs that have development ability. .tel is useless in comparison. They may changed with a non-retarded registry but the probabilities are low.

TelBlogger wrote:The value in these types of registrations are for TLDs that have development ability. .tel is useless in comparison. They may changed with a non-retarded registry but the probabilities are low.

Exactly! .tel could transform into a great product, but Telnic a) doesn't want to develop it and b) tries everything to prevent that a successor can take over to improve .tel.

That are very bad conditions for the future!!

It seems that till now not a big number of TELs was dropped. For example, at the moment at Dynadot only 9 TELs are dropping now.

It seems that bulk-owners decided to pay for one more year.

2-400 a day is still a significant number:

http://registrarstats.com/TLDDomainCounts.aspx

People can be very stupid when it comes to domains especially, it seems, owning the worst domain extension ever created; .tel.

And the next days figures from: 

http://registrarstats.com/TLDDomainCounts.aspx

611. That makes well over 1,000 in two days. They are mainly, I would think, the ones that expired around end of March perhaps from landrush registrations.

This extension is the biggest turkey in the domain industry's history. And it [gobble gobbled] lots of absorber money including my own. I am down from an initial 250-280 registrations to just 8 which pay for themselves now. You see I believed those motherf**kers and their attitude which indicated preparedness for hard work. It was a con from day one IMHO because they never did much to help it.

Currently I left about of 25 TELs. At 8 of them I have projects - they are additions for my COM projects, so there is no sense to drop them because my work on them costed more then their renewal price.

Till now, I did not regreted of any of my TEL, which during the TEL history I had dropped.

First time ever the registry website for the world's most useless domain extension has dropped below 500,000 in Alexa ranking:

502,273

It's best was under 100,000 a long time ago.

Your local town car dealer probably has a higher Alexa ranking.

The registry's companion cheat-your-own-resellers with one-page completely useless website Telnames.com is at

714,475

which is an all-time low 

Sharlene who runs the corner hair salon in Upper Bogner probably has a website with more traffic and a higher ranking. Obviously her services provide some value to her customers unlike Telnames.com.

It's no surprise. .tel is a domain extension without any support. How should it become famous?

Another milestone approaching for Telnic who are the registry for .tel in case you haven't heard of them.

Continuing drops now make less than 125,000 total registrations only a day or two away (125,043 today). 

Congratulations to Kash and team at Telnic for their superlative efforts! Keep it up guys and gals and 100,000 will no longer be a pipe-dream. Chocks away!

Perhaps in the spirit of UK business you can apply for a subsidy to buy up some of the cascade of dropping domains.

TelBlogger wrote:... Telnic ... in case you haven't heard of them.

Tee-Hee!

No one has heard from Telnic during the last years!

Telnic isn't an economically thinking company. It's like an authority office without any knowledge how to run a business.

.tel registrations under 124,000 today. Congratulations must go to Kash and his team. Not easy to get from 330,000 to under 123,988.

TelBlogger wrote:Not easy to get from 330,000 to under 123,988.

Indeed! Something has gone terribly wrong when performing that bad.

Only a 60% drop in revenue for a completely useless product is a win for Kash and his team in my opinion. Remember there are still many hapless registrants out there who don't realize what they own.

Latest shocking stats for the collapsing(ed?) .tel project:

Alexa:

Telnic.org         633,636
Telnames.com  838,116

Telmasters.com 5,872,132
Teltalk.org 1,448,160

Registrations:

.tel  123,806

As always congratulations must go to Kash and his team for their highly focused and committed development of this domain extension.

Such thing happens when a company (Telnic) relies on others (registrars) to do the work for them.

Latest shocking stats for the collapsing(ed?) .tel project:
Telnames.com punches through the 1,000,000 mark!
Google has worked out that .tel is s**t and this last week has been monumental.
Looking for Telnic.org to punch through the 1,000,000 mark soon.

Alexa:

Telnic.org               674,932
Telnic.tel        6,936,764
Telnames.com   1,006,031
Telnames.tel   7,402,237

Telmasters.com 6,749,008
Telmasters.tel  not ranked
Teltalk.org 1,974,815

Registrations:

.tel  123,619

As always congratulations must go to Kash and his team for their committed and intelligent development of this domain extension.

TelBlogger wrote:As always congratulations must go to Kash and his team for their committed and intelligent development of this domain extension.

Everything runs very well - exactly as planned 17 years ago (when Telnic was founded in the year 1998): collecting money and using it for paying high salaries to Telnic's management. Meanwhile, the CEO of Telnic had a wonderful life for 17 years now (with high salary and 99% leisure time). Why should he change anything?

When do you finally understand that you have been abused? Telnic only needed you to spend your money to be able to exist for 17 years.
No business case has ever existed for .tel!

Weekly Wrap:

Latest shocking stats for the collapsed .tel project.
The final capitulation of this collapsed extension.
Massive falls in Alexa rankings.
Google Search says: Enough of this bulls**t extension.
Telnic.org now on par with your corner dairy in global internet penetration.
Unprecedented collapse of Telnic.org's Alexa ranking.

Alexa:

Telnic.org        815,842 (last week 674,932)
Telnic.tel        6,913,204
Telnames.com   1,118,399
Telnames.tel   7,380,882

Telmasters.com 8,254,635
Telmasters.tel  not ranked
Teltalk.org   2,310,282

Registrations:

.tel  123,475

Congratulations must go to Kash and his team for their ceaseless efforts in the development of this domain extension.

Weekly Wrap:

Latest shocking stats for the collapsed .tel project!
Not a single post in one week on Teltalk.org!

Alexa:

Telnic.org        807,411 
Telnic.tel        6,902,319
Telnames.com   1,263,038
Telnames.tel   7,365,121

Telmasters.com  9,696,339
Telmasters.tel  not ranked
Teltalk.org   2,706,077

Registrations:

.tel  122,979

Congratulations must go to Kash and his team for their ceaseless efforts in the development of this domain extension.

Weekly Wrap:

Latest shocking stats for the collapsed .tel project!
Total collapse just around the corner.
Massive drops in Alexa rankings this week.
Prediction: Telnic.tel, Telmasters.com to lose ranking soon.
This week (last week)

Alexa:

Telnic.org       877,544 (807,411) 
Telnic.tel        18,394,949 (6,902,319)
Telnames.com   1,598,636 (1,263,038)
Telnames.tel   9,952,524 (7,365,121)

Telmasters.com  14,093,837 (9,696,339)
Telmasters.tel  no ranking (no ranking)
Teltalk.org   4,066,934 (2,706,077)

Registrations:

.tel  122,756 (122,979)

Congratulations must go to (Grab-The-) Kash and his team for their ceaseless efforts in the development of this domain extension.

Weekly Wrap:

Latest shocking stats for the collapsed .tel project!
Total collapse just around the corner.
Big drops in Alexa rankings this week.
Teltalk.org smashed.
This week (last week)

Alexa:

Telnic.org       933,090 (877,544)  
Telnic.tel        18,167,860 (18,394,949)
Telnames.com   2,557,452 (1,598,636)
Telnames.tel   16,387,420 (9,952,524)

Telmasters.com  13,932,296 (14,093,837)
Telmasters.tel  no ranking (no ranking)
Teltalk.org   9,982,072 (4,066,934)

Registrations:

.tel  122,438 (122,756) 

Congratulations must go to (Grab-The-) Kash and his team for their ceaseless efforts in the development of this domain extension.

Weekly Wrap:

Latest shocking stats for the collapsed .tel project!
Total collapse just around the corner.
The world's most useless domain extension continues to fail.

This week (last week)

Alexa:

Telnic.org       927,937 (933,090)   
Telnic.tel        18,051,178 (18,167,860) T
Telnames.com   3,311,625 (2,557,452) 
Telnames.tel   No Ranking (16,387,420) 

Telmasters.com  13,854,870 (13,932,296)
Telmasters.tel  no ranking (no ranking)
Teltalk.org   9.937,752 (9,982,072)

Registrations:

.tel  122,565 (122,438) 

Congratulations must go to (Grab-The-) Kash and his team for their ceaseless efforts in the development of this piece of s**t domain extension.