Groundbreaking crash at Telnic

by FrankW. 2014-05-08, 10:19 am

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Re: Groundbreaking crash at Telnic

by FrankW. 2014-05-08, 10:19 am

Nuki wrote:There are so many similarities between Telnic and the former (also London-based) Global Name Registry...

The Global Name Registry, Limited was the operator of the .name top-level domain for individuals' names as delegated by ICANN on August 1, 2001.

The company focused on digital identity and .name as a core part of providing individuals worldwide with personal, memorable digital identities. Global Name Registry offered two core products: a personalized email address with forwarding capabilities, and a personalized domain name.

The Global Name Registry launched .name in 2002.

VeriSign, Inc., acquired Global Name Registry in late 2008 and ICANN approved the reassignment of the .name TLD to VeriSign in early 2009.

More info: http://www.verisigninc.com/en_US/domain-names/name-domains/index.xhtml

by Sunrise 2014-05-08, 10:39 am

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Re: Groundbreaking crash at Telnic

by Sunrise 2014-05-08, 10:39 am

Even .name performs better than .tel:
http://registrarstats.com/TLDHistoryChart.aspx?TLDName=NAME

by mikeseaton 2014-05-08, 11:05 am

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Re: Groundbreaking crash at Telnic

by mikeseaton 2014-05-08, 11:05 am

Be interesting to see who wants to acquire Telnic Ltd (and its 100% owned subsidiary Telnames Ltd) when the last of the $35,000,000 shareholder investment finally runs out.

In the internet world your company can be an attractive takeover target if you are:

Small & Profitable
or
Big (tens of millions of users) & Unprofitable

The problem of course is if you are both Small & Unprofitable !

http://MikeSeaton.tel

by Toptel 2014-05-08, 11:20 am

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Re: Groundbreaking crash at Telnic

by Toptel 2014-05-08, 11:20 am

mikeseaton wrote:The problem of course is if you are both Small & Unprofitable !

Even better, because then you are an easy and cheap target.
The longer the potential buyer waits, the lower the price will be.
And after that it'll be an easy job to make it better than Telnic who made mistake after mistake during the last years.

by mikeseaton 2014-05-08, 11:44 am

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Re: Groundbreaking crash at Telnic

by mikeseaton 2014-05-08, 11:44 am

Toptel wrote:

mikeseaton wrote:The problem of course is if you are both Small & Unprofitable !

Even better, because then you are an easy and cheap target.
The longer the potential buyer waits, the lower the price will be.
And after that it'll be an easy job to make it better than Telnic who made mistake after mistake during the last years.

@Toptel - very true - it often happens in the UK that a buyer in such a situation only has to pay a nominal £1 to take over a company that is a constant loss-maker !

http://MikeSeaton.tel

by mikeseaton 2014-05-11, 2:09 pm

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Re: Groundbreaking crash at Telnic

by mikeseaton 2014-05-11, 2:09 pm

mikeseaton wrote:The Total .Tel Registrations figure for today, Thursday 8 May 2014, is 140,257 according to http://registrarstats.com/TLDDomainCounts.aspx

The number of Telnames .Tels indexed by Google is 6,680 - see https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=site%3A.tel+%22powered+by+Telnames.com%22&gbv=2&oq=site%3A.tel+%22powered+by+Telnames.com%22

Just checked the above links and today 11 May shows Total .Tel Registrations now down to 139,955 AND Telnames indexed domains down as well to 6,670.

So maybe the theory that Telnames single-page .tels are gaining in net (ie. new less dropped) registrations every day to at least partially compensate for the rapidly failing Telnic subdomain .tels is not actually true ?

Regardless of this, 6,670 indexed Telnames domains (we all know Telnic .tel domains are no longer being promoted or developed) is APPALLING after a $35,000,000 investment - it works out at $5,247 per indexed Telnames domain !

http://MikeSeaton.tel

PS. Here's my contribution to the emergency meeting Telnic/Telnames should be having tomorrow !

by TelBlogger 2014-05-12, 1:50 pm

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Re: Groundbreaking crash at Telnic

by TelBlogger 2014-05-12, 1:50 pm

I thought regicide was killing a king. Telnic have reinvented the word. Now it's deliberately destroying your registration numbers - regi-cide!

by hulltv 2014-05-13, 4:31 pm

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Re: Groundbreaking crash at Telnic

by hulltv 2014-05-13, 4:31 pm

They know what to do to get people to buy telnames.
more txt, pages,ECT

But i think there looking for a way out.

THAT THE TYPE OF PEOPLE IN CHARGE JUST TALKERS, NOT HARD WORKERS.
AS SOME GUY ON HERE SAID MEN IN EMPTY SUITS.

by mikeseaton 2014-05-13, 9:21 pm

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