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I am an end user, not a domainer. I registered my first .tel domain on April 4, 2010. I have only 8 .tel domains that I developed for hobby, not profit.
In those days I liked the idea of registering and developing .tel domains because were still available some of the keywords I was interested and because I should not worry on the creation of the related sites. My experiences of web-design had stopped at the times of Geocities and Xoom, someone remember?
Now, seven years after my first registrations and two weeks after the .tel big crunch, we have a thousand new extensions and a series of online and offline applications and programs that make it easy to create a website, so I took some decisions about my .tel domains and sites.
silvanogarello.tel and silvano-garello.tel - My name/surname. I registered them for building my personal website, with subdirectories. Over the years I have registered both the .com and the .it , the combination my_name / my_surname is available in all the “universe” extensions and now I’m able to create a simple website. I have no more reason to keep the new .tels that I consider too limited and with a ugly design.
salea.tel - Salea is a small village of five hundred inhabitants where was born my mother. I had registered and put some data to amuse her. When OVH was out with its domain and offered the possibility to its customers to register for free 5 domains, I took salea.ovh and made a mini-site, I think cute, with pictures and slideshows. Given the very small cost of .ovh domains and the free hosting that I found, I will let expire salea.tel and I will maintain salea.ovh .
liguria.tel and ligury.tel – were two directories. I decided to abandon them. I will keep these two domains for another year to inform visitors of the closure of sites, then I will let expire “ligury” and perhaps I will keep “liguria” which is registered under a lot of extensions and it seems to be sold as premium in several new extensions.
358.tel and newsletter.tel - Registered and never developed due to lack of time. I will keep for a little, seeing if they take any value.
albenga.tel - my town, developed into an active directory always maintained and updated. While I wait to see if it comes out some viable solution to restore the site from backup files, I’m working on a site with the data of the old albenga.tel. The site is temporarily under albenga.ovh (and albenga.tel redirects here) while I’m deciding under what extension I will put it permanently; I'm currently thinking about “.directory”
So of my eight .tel domains, in the end it will keep four, for now.
In those days I liked the idea of registering and developing .tel domains because were still available some of the keywords I was interested and because I should not worry on the creation of the related sites. My experiences of web-design had stopped at the times of Geocities and Xoom, someone remember?
Now, seven years after my first registrations and two weeks after the .tel big crunch, we have a thousand new extensions and a series of online and offline applications and programs that make it easy to create a website, so I took some decisions about my .tel domains and sites.
silvanogarello.tel and silvano-garello.tel - My name/surname. I registered them for building my personal website, with subdirectories. Over the years I have registered both the .com and the .it , the combination my_name / my_surname is available in all the “universe” extensions and now I’m able to create a simple website. I have no more reason to keep the new .tels that I consider too limited and with a ugly design.
salea.tel - Salea is a small village of five hundred inhabitants where was born my mother. I had registered and put some data to amuse her. When OVH was out with its domain and offered the possibility to its customers to register for free 5 domains, I took salea.ovh and made a mini-site, I think cute, with pictures and slideshows. Given the very small cost of .ovh domains and the free hosting that I found, I will let expire salea.tel and I will maintain salea.ovh .
liguria.tel and ligury.tel – were two directories. I decided to abandon them. I will keep these two domains for another year to inform visitors of the closure of sites, then I will let expire “ligury” and perhaps I will keep “liguria” which is registered under a lot of extensions and it seems to be sold as premium in several new extensions.
358.tel and newsletter.tel - Registered and never developed due to lack of time. I will keep for a little, seeing if they take any value.
albenga.tel - my town, developed into an active directory always maintained and updated. While I wait to see if it comes out some viable solution to restore the site from backup files, I’m working on a site with the data of the old albenga.tel. The site is temporarily under albenga.ovh (and albenga.tel redirects here) while I’m deciding under what extension I will put it permanently; I'm currently thinking about “.directory”
So of my eight .tel domains, in the end it will keep four, for now.
