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    Post by mikeseaton 2013-01-10, 12:54 pm

    mikeseaton wrote:Well Dan, one thing I was planning on doing was promoting Telnames to the 1000s of small businessmen, sole traders and professionals visiting Boat Search UK, Boat Search USA, and the other European Boat Search Engine sites that I run, via the Telnames / Commission Junction Affiliate Scheme.

    But it's difficult for me to do that as I'm still waiting for Telnames to move my application at CJ (I applied 19 December 2012) from "Pending Applications" to "Approved" status !
    http://MikeSeaton.tel

    PS. I am also encouraging .TEL Search by the use of http://www.net-link.com/tel
    It's now IMPOSSIBLE for me to send new .tel registrants to Telnames as my affiliate application at CJ was officially DECLINED by Telnames today.

    OK - I'll just accept the payments from AdSense, Amazon, eBay, TradeDoubler and the other CJ advertisers instead !

    Obviously frank (but true) forum posts by myself do not go down too well with Telnic/Telnames - even though I always try to offer constructive suggestions to help move the .tel project forward to the essential "critical mass" - without which it is going to fail as 1000+ new gTLDs attract software developers time and domain investors money !

    I have to ask the question DOES TELNIC NEVER LEARN ?

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    Post by ixida 2013-01-10, 1:38 pm

    mikeseaton wrote:It's now IMPOSSIBLE for me to send new .tel registrants to Telnames as my affiliate application at CJ was officially DECLINED by Telnames today.
    I have a question. What is better for an advertiser? Accepting all publishers applying for the campaign or choosing them by the websites they want to place ads on?
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    Post by fustachio.tel 2013-01-11, 2:27 am

    Send them to a better competing service that gives you a commission out of spite, seems a crappy thing for them to do but not unexpected as they made you wait they clearly didn't want to you know, like people don't act on facebook friend requests but just leave them hanging in the wind.
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    Post by ixida 2013-01-11, 5:19 pm

    ixida wrote:
    mikeseaton wrote:It's now IMPOSSIBLE for me to send new .tel registrants to Telnames as my affiliate application at CJ was officially DECLINED by Telnames today.
    I have a question. What is better for an advertiser? Accepting all publishers applying for the campaign or choosing them by the websites they want to place ads on?
    I didn't want Mike to quit! My question was serious and wasn't meant to be provocative.
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    Post by mikeseaton 2013-01-12, 2:24 pm

    ixida wrote:
    ixida wrote:
    mikeseaton wrote:It's now IMPOSSIBLE for me to send new .tel registrants to Telnames as my affiliate application at CJ was officially DECLINED by Telnames today.
    I have a question. What is better for an advertiser? Accepting all publishers applying for the campaign or choosing them by the websites they want to place ads on?
    I didn't want Mike to quit! My question was serious and wasn't meant to be provocative.
    The Reality of .Tel needs to be faced by all of us - what varies is the point at which people like Jens, Telrific, TELcp and myself have chosen to do so !

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    Post by Expert 2013-01-12, 6:09 pm

    If Telnic kicks out one of their biggest customers of the Telnic forum, refuses him to become a publisher and never responses to all his software requests, I would become mad, too. Or at least frustrated.
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    Post by maxi 2013-01-12, 10:01 pm

    ixida wrote:I have a question. What is better for an advertiser? Accepting all publishers applying for the campaign or choosing them by the websites they want to place ads on?
    I аm аnу expert in these mаtters, but hаve а versiоn thаt there shоuld be nо difference, when mоneу аre pаid оnlу аfter site's visitоr went bу the link аnd mаde а purchаse оf а prоduct. Mау be I аm wrоng.

    I аlsо think, thаt bigger prоportion оf buуer/visitor cоuld cоme frоm develоped TEL-sites then frоm cоnventiоnаl web-sites. Becаuse pоtentiаl buуer аlreаdу sаw thаt develоped TEL, аnd if it wаs nice аnd functiоnаl, then, lоgicаllу, thаt TEL-site-visitоr cоuld be tempted tо get а TEL fоr himself.

    Оf cоurse, if thаt TEL will be uglу аnd usefull, the result will be оppоsite.


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    Post by mikeseaton 2013-01-15, 11:44 am

    mikeseaton wrote:
    ixida wrote:I didn't want Mike to quit! My question was serious and wasn't meant to be provocative.
    The Reality of .Tel needs to be faced by all of us - what varies is the point at which people like Jens, Telrific, TELcp and myself have chosen to do so !

    http://MikeSeaton.tel
    I came across the following Telnic Forum post the other day (saved before being banned) that I made on 9 September 2011 (ie. 16 months ago) called The Reality of .Tel !

    I remember Justin saying in an interview that Telnic was the longest startup in internet history. Telnic was incorporated as a UK company on 29 April 1998 as Ixtel Ltd., the name being changed to Telnic Ltd. on 8 September 1999.

    That makes it over 13 years since the company was formed to develop .tel - about the same age as Google and older than Facebook !

    I assume it's the calm before the storm - just not sure how long domain investors and software developers can put up with no information about how .tel is going to get out on the streets as a mass market product.

    We all want .tel to succeed but with any investment (whether in time and/or money) there is a point at which reality has to be faced.

    I'm starting to get nervous about .tel - the roadmap has now been removed - some domain investors and software developers have already given up - we really do need good reasons to continue to "keep the faith".

    Telnic - can you please give us something concrete to show a route to getting .tel out to "Joe Public" before events overtake us all !


    Thanks in anticipation.

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    Having re-read it I just wished I had taken my own warnings about the reality of .tel seriously and saved 16 months of wasted time and money that I've spent on the no longer marketed/developed Telnic subdomain .tels !

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    Post by Moonlight 2013-01-15, 12:01 pm

    The dream of a quick success has been buried for a long time already.
    You should only stay involved if you give this new technology a chance in the long term.
    But I think that most people have adapted already.
    I expect that new clients will not have the same high expectations as early participants.
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    Post by TelFan 2013-01-15, 12:16 pm

    Moonlight wrote:The dream of a quick success has been buried for a long time already.
    You should only stay involved if you give this new technology a chance in the long term.
    But I think that most people have adapted already.
    I expect that new clients will not have the same high expectations as early participants.
    Wrong! The longer it takes, the worse the chances.
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    Post by Expert 2013-01-15, 1:06 pm

    TelFan wrote:
    Moonlight wrote:The dream of a quick success has been buried for a long time already.
    You should only stay involved if you give this new technology a chance in the long term.
    But I think that most people have adapted already.
    I expect that new clients will not have the same high expectations as early participants.
    Wrong! The longer it takes, the worse the chances.
    Wrong, too!
    Time doesn’t matter, because success is guaranteed if a company understands the customer and offers a service worth the money.
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    Post by maxi 2013-01-17, 12:06 pm

    mikeseaton wrote:Having re-read it I just wished I had taken my own warnings about the reality of .tel seriously and saved 16 months of wasted time and money that I've spent on the no longer marketed/developed Telnic subdomain .tels !
    Of course, everyone decides how to do it better. Especially with a business which is a kind of a gambling. It is just my opinion - if I would have one-word English nouns from the lists bellow (or domains equal to them) I would think few times before dropping them.


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    Post by ixida 2013-01-18, 6:03 pm

    Mike, Are you on vacation from .tel or did you really quit?
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    Post by mikeseaton 2013-01-20, 9:10 am

    ixida wrote:Mike, Are you on vacation from .tel or did you really quit?
    @ixida This post should give you the answer !

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    Post by hulltv 2013-01-20, 9:57 am

    the fact that dot tel has failed may well be a help to some domainers.

    who have some kind of addicion.
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    Post by silvano 2013-01-20, 10:55 am

    hulltv wrote:the fact that dot tel has failed may well be a help to some domainers.

    who have some kind of addicion.

    An interesting blog post by Adam Dicker*

    http://www.elliotsblog.com/adam-dickers-2013-predictions-2827

    Point No. 3: "2013 will be the year domainers drop 80% of their ice cream domains and
    upgrade their portfolios, quality over quantity will be the right target
    to aim for. It’s far better to own 10 fantastic domains than 10,000
    pieces of ice cream."

    Point No. 4: "Hopefully people learnt from .mobi, .tel .co and .xxx not to waste their
    money filling the pockets of the registrars while they are left with no
    traffic and no revenue from these pipe dreams.
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    Post by Natal 2013-01-20, 12:45 pm

    silvano wrote:Point No. 4: "Hopefully people learnt from .mobi, .tel .co and .xxx not to waste their
    money filling the pockets of the registrars while they are left with no
    traffic and no revenue from these pipe dreams.
    "
    If he talks about TEL as a domain, then he is right. But if he talks about telecommunication, then he doesn't know what he is talking. The purpose of TEL is not what every other domain is doing. And this is still uncovered until today. Adam Dicker surely don't know about that.
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    Post by Mad Max 2013-01-20, 1:24 pm

    Natal wrote:If he talks about TEL as a domain, then he is right. But if he talks about telecommunication, then he doesn't know what he is talking. The purpose of TEL is not what every other domain is doing. And this is still uncovered until today. Adam Dicker surely don't know about that.
    then when telnic presents us those new telecommunication services instead of hunting after critical mass in a market segment with hundreds of rivals?
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    Post by silvano 2013-01-20, 3:23 pm

    Natal wrote:If he talks about TEL as a domain, then he is right. But if he talks about telecommunication, then he doesn't know what he is talking. The purpose of TEL is not what every other domain is doing. And this is still uncovered until today. Adam Dicker surely don't know about that.

    Adam Dicker is a domainer and speaks as domainer.

    On the other hand the .tels at the moment can only be used as domains.
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    Post by mikeseaton 2013-01-22, 8:29 am

    mikeseaton wrote:
    ixida wrote:Mike, Are you on vacation from .tel or did you really quit?
    @ixida This post should give you the answer !
    Looks like I made the right decision - .TEL Total Registrations just go from BAD to WORSE to FAILING !

    Sooner or later Telnic/Telnames will realise they made a BIG MISTAKE by refusing to release the Telnames template to their loyal Telnic registrants and their 100 or so registrars !

    Will there be anything left of the .tel project when they realise this was a major error ?

    .TEL was a great idea - ruined by so many decisions which alienated the customers who ultimately (once the $35,000,000 initial funding runs out) are essential for Telnic/Telnames long term survival.

    The best - in fact the only - hope is for a takeover of Telnic/Telnames by one of the internet's major players.

    But this seems unlikely (hopefully not impossible) given the business opportunities that will exist with the 1000+ new gTLDs soon to be launched.

    So it is with great regret that I have to ask:

    Will The Last Person To Leave The .Tel Project Please Turn Out The Lights ?

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    Post by Mad Max 2013-01-22, 8:36 am

    mikeseaton wrote:.TEL was a great idea - ruined by some many decisions which alienated the customers who ultimately (once the $35,000,000 initial funding runs out) are essential for Telnic/Telnames long term survival.
    i still hope the money will be enough to deliver an useful design to telnic
    then .tel could be still recovered
    but of course telnic will have to search for new supporters, because developers who dropped their domains won't come back
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    Post by Sunrise 2013-01-22, 9:32 am

    Mad Max wrote:but of course telnic will have to search for new supporters, because developers who dropped their domains won't come back
    Telnic could prevent losing their last developers by publishing a road map!
    In that case people would believe something will happen in the future.
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    Post by NewYorkCity 2013-02-06, 3:41 pm

    Unfortunately Telnic has decided not to leave the little niche. Telnic avoids all risks and develops the right strategy very, very slowly.


    But for Telnic this mentality is beneficial: low cost and steady income at low levels.
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    Post by maxi 2013-02-06, 4:20 pm

    NewYorkCity wrote:Unfortunately Telnic has decided not to leave the little niche. Telnic avoids all risks and develops the right strategy very, very slowly.


    But for Telnic this mentality is beneficial: low cost and steady income at low levels.
    By my mind, it is not beneficial for a company. But it is beneficial for people who get their salaries from that company. In this way they could continue this non-risky and comfortable situation for forever - if there would be no investors/shareholders who surely had not forgotten about their invested money.

    As for me, the most mysterious thing in all this soap-opera is the behaviour of those people.

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