Who's buying up large numbers of expiring .tels ?

A big day for .tel registrations yesterday - we are of course at the time of year where "prime" registrations initially registered on 23/24 March 2009 (.tel launch date) will expire if they've not been renewed.

The figures from http://registrarstats.com/TLDDomainCounts.aspx show yesterday had 276 NEW Registrations with just 54 REMOVED Registrations.

"NEW" of course covers both truly new .tel registrations as well as those that have dropped and then been re-registered by someone else within seconds.

Is all this activity just down to .tel enthusiast Mark Kolb of Telmasters.com or are others anticipating a "changing of the guard" very soon and getting in before that occurs and prices start moving upwards ?

http://MikeSeaton.tel

PS. I've got the Sedo payment (£500 GBP less commission) for Tshirts.tel safely in my bank now, buyer just needs to load their data via CTH to populate the domain.

After Dottel.net and Telmasters canceled their services of listing new .tel registrations, no source is available to track drops and new registrations anymore.

I expect Mark to reactivate this service as soon interest in .tel comes back (if it will come back):

http://teldomains.co/?go=drops

Currently only one way to track new registrations: http://telpages.com/latest.action

di7 wrote:http://telpages.com/latest.action

Only a fraction of the new registrations appears here.

di7 wrote:After Dottel.net and Telmasters canceled their services of listing new .tel registrations, no source is available to track drops and new registrations anymore.

Try the major .Tel Registrars for this - or the many "drop-catching" services that exist to register new domains (of any extension) the millisecond after they are dropped.

http://MikeSeaton.tel

The current interest in registering .tel domains is on the lowest level ever!

Lower than a snake's belly ...