Total .tel domains per registrar

Registrar	Domains
Tong Ji Ming Lian (bejing) Technology Corporation Ltd. (Trename)	48155
EuroDNS SA	38028
Name.com	21727
Key-Systems GmbH	13739
Mesh Digital Limited	12804
Network Solutions Inc.	10517
Tucows, Inc	9075
OVH Sarl	8547
Domain.com, LLC	7385
Ascio Technologies Inc.	6898
Dynadot LLC	6251
1st Antagus Internet GmbH	4793
Regional Network Information Center, JSC dba RU-CENTER	4399
Arsys Internet SL dba Nicline.com	3951
Gandi SAS	3895
1API GmbH	3715
PSI USA	3508
Directi Internet Solutions Pvt. Ltd. d/b/a PublicDomainRegistry.com	3423
Webnames.ca Inc.	3128
Realtime Register B.V.	2390
French Connexion / Domaine.fr	2354
EasySpace Ltd.	2218
eNom, Inc.	2193
Melbourne IT Ltd	1788
EPAG Domainservices GmbH	1670
Internet.bs Corp.	1568
HiChina Zhicheng Technology Limited	1549
CSL Computer Service (d.b.a. Joker.com)	1510
Moniker Online Services, LLC	1451
LCN.COM Ltd.	1317
Web Commerce Communications, Ltd.	1308
Sibername.com Inc.	1241
InterNetWire Communications GmbH	1156
Namebay SAM	1108
OnlineNIC, Inc. d/b/a China-channel.com	1020
Instra Corporation Pty Ltd	967
Register .IT Spa	964
MarkMonitor, Inc.	944
Larsen Data v/Peter Larsen	906
Indom	881
DomainContext, Inc.	864
CORE Internet Council of Registrars	833
Corporate Domains, Inc.	783
NamesBeyond.Com	764
Dinahosting SL	721
InterNetworX Ltd. & Co. KG	653
GMO Internet, Inc.	613
Az.pl, Inc	595
Xin Net Corp	586
Nameshield, Inc.	563
Regtime Ltd.	562
Nom-IQ Ltd	550
Interdomain, S.A.	541
Domain People	498
Aust Domains International Pty Ltd dba Aust Domains, Inc.	487
Bizcn.com, Inc.	470
Entorno Digital, SA	463
Online SAS	457
Safenames Ltd	423
YesNIC Co., Ltd.	416
Soluciones Corporativas IP, SLU	408
Gabia Inc.	391
http.net Internet gmbH	380
Tierra Net Inc. DBA Domain Discover	374
BB Online UK Limited	354
35 Technology Co., Ltd.	343
Centrohost CJSC	342
Mailclub SAS	330
Net 4 India Limited	329
Net-Chinese Co., Ltd.	320
007 Names, Inc.	314
IP Mirror Pte Ltd	314
Todaynic.com, Inc.	298
10dencehispahard, S.L.	216
EnCirca, Inc.	202
Inames Co. Ltd.	198
Tuonome.it SRL	171
Blacknight Internet Solutions Ltd	163
NETIM	159
Ebrand Secure, LLC	140
Secura GmbH	139
Domaininfo AB	134
Interdominios, Inc.	134
Variomedia AG dba puredomain.com	128
Marcaria.com International, Inc.	124
Net Searchers International, Ltd.	121
NordNet	111
Center of Ukrainian Internet Names dba UKRNAMES	109
Jiangsu Bangning Science & technology Co. Ltd.	105
Spot Domain LLC	102
101Domain, Inc.	87
Own Identity, Inc	83
Domain The Net Technologies, Ltd.	68
Total Web Solutions d.b.a. Total Registrations	67
Dotname Korea Corporation	65
CPS-Datensysteme GmbH	59
Netlynx, Inc.	57
PSI-Japan, Inc.	50
Beijing Tong Guan Xin Tian Technology Ltd (dba Novaltel)	47
Globedom Datenkommunikations GmbH	47
Interlink, Co., Inc.	45
Netpia.com, Inc.	45
AB NameISP	41
Foshan YiDong Network Co., LTD	27
Register.ca	26
Domain Registration Services	22
Gransy S.R.O dba Subreg.cz	17
Communi Gal Communications Ltd.	16
Networking4all B.V.	16
Rockenstein AG	15
DotAlliance Inc	13
Cronon AG	12
DotArai Co., Ltd.	12
PakNIC Limited	12
Visesh Infotecnics Ltd. d/b/a Signdomains.com	12
Arctic Names, Inc.	10
Catalog.com, Inc.	7
Answerable.com (I) Pvt. Ltd.	6
Korea Electronic Certification Authority; Crosscert Inc.	5
0101 Internet Inc.	4
Acropolis Telecom	4
PURENIC JAPAN Inc.	3
Othello Technology Systems Ltd.	2
Imperial Registrations, Inc.	1
Reg2C.com Inc.	1
ZhuHai NaiSiNiKe Information Technology Co Ltd.	1
Domain Bank, Inc.	0
Dotster	0
MyDomain, Inc.	0
Totals	264241

Source: Telnic's Transactions Report from May 2012

Interesting table - Key-Systems GmbH are the registrar who handle the domain registrations for the Telnames single-page template (see http://www.easywhois.com/?domain=sherifflodge.tel).

This is significant, because with 13739 total .tel registrations at Key-Systems GmbH, of which 1462 are for Telnames (according to http://www.dottel.net), there are 12277 Telnic subdomain-style .tels also registered with them.

So Key-Systems GmbH shows that a single registrar can easily handle both Telnames single-page .tels and Telnic subdomain-style .tels - it's just a matter of the nameservers they allocate to the .tel registration.

So why can't other registrars offer both types of .tel as well like Key-Systems GmbH currently do ?

http://MikeSeaton.tel

With like name having 21727 domains, shouldn't they be giving out survey's to determine what market they hold? I've yet to receive an email asking how I use my .tel
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If they pull out the flag whois settings aka by the numbers of individuals vs business registrants then they could at least get an idea of what market they hold and what kind of survey to send out, perhaps even 2! and pool ideas but again it's all lethargy on their behalf or based on the only effort I've seen extended to price not features I'd bet on running it as cheap as possible.
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So I'm guessing name will focus on price and bare bones features to be able to sustain that.
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Also did you know name.com provides forwarding email addresses for .tels also for free? I didn't until a while back as it's hidden in a way that I didn't notice it (bad ui) so they could have at least sent out an email to engage with their customers to instruct them how to setup their free email forwarder.
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But In the end I went to Google apps which is also hidden, you only get the free version if you look at the price page, everything else is pushing you to the payment trial to give the impression it's not free beyond it, but at least that's a full featured email inbox and not a forwarder.
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And the answer to your question of "So why can't other registrars offer both types of .tel as well like Key-Systems GmbH currently do ?" because either they can't be bothered aka they don't have any imagination and as semi-large registrar businesses go they'd rather sell, sell, sell than develop a product themselves (aka they only host it's not developed by them? it's like every other company who provides a dns/hosting, what someone does with it is up to them) or it comes down to price as it costs a small fortune to fire up each and every private proxy thus unless you have a good market share of more than a niche customer it's not worth it for them.
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If .tel grows eventually it will be worth it as 19million is more than a niche customer and at 1million it might be profitable to run two proxies one for businesses who need more protections on data and one for individuals who need more upfront ego enhancement

fustachio.tel wrote:And the answer to your question of "So why can't other registrars offer both types of .tel as well like Key-Systems GmbH currently do ?" because either they can't be bothered aka they don't have any imagination and as semi-large registrar businesses go they'd rather sell, sell, sell than develop a product themselves (aka they only host it's not developed by them? it's like every other company who provides a dns/hosting, what someone does with it is up to them) or it comes down to price as it costs a small fortune to fire up each and every private proxy thus unless you have a good market share of more than a niche customer it's not worth it for them.

No development or private proxies would be required for a registrar to offer the Telnames type of .tel template - just an agreement with Telnames Ltd.

The registrar would then do exactly as Key-Systems GmbH have done with every Telnames-style .tel - set the nameservers to NS1/2/3.TELNAMES.DNS.NIC.TEL.

This would then route the user to the Telnames nameservers exactly as the current Telnames registered .tels are routed.

Simple - just needs an agreement with Telnames Ltd. - who would provide the CTH and Control Panel.

If the registrar still wanted to sell the old Telnic subdomain-style .tel as well a question would be asked at registration time as to which style you want.

All it needs is for Telnames Ltd. to agree a deal with registrars and the rest is easy !

http://MikeSeaton.tel