I'll probably grab my company's trademarked names. That could be a good access point for customers.
The Individual side scares me. I wouldn't stick all my private contact information out there for just anyone to see. I don't think I ever want to be that publicly accessible.
How long until all this info is scraped and resold to those spy/stalker sites?
Will you be getting your own .tel?
How long until all this info is scraped and resold to those spy/stalker sites?
Bill, good point...sounds like it could be a field day for some.
My company holds 3 marks so $1,200 just to stop someone else from registering them.
The big question is this... with the .tel domains even be indexed? If so, by what company and will the results only show on mobile search? How will they rank vs the .com etc.
I guess I wouldn't care if it was $20, but this feels almost like extortion.
Will you be getting your own .tel?
I've just been rooting through the documentation and I actually like the concept however the principle is fundamentally flawed for larger, multi-office/national/international companies.
Are they assuming that businesses actually want to have all their offices and all other contact details available?
Google's a perfect example of not wanting to divulge anything and how many websites only give a contact form without any physical or direct e-mail address let alone...shhh...a telephone number?
Personally I do not have a problem giving all this information as we already do on our websites right now however how many companies feel the necessity to do this?
I spent an hour yesterday tracking down a company which, if they had used this, theoretically I would have found immediately, and yes, they had a website however both their index page and contact page titlebars were configured incorrectly which is why they had not been indexed correctly.
How will one verify this information is correct versus a squater that took the domain of some trademarked company? How about by going to the .COM site and verifying the address... ;-)
We always end up right back where we started... Folks are going to always trust the .COM information for a company.
No thanks. I'll keep my money. The squaters can have my .tel name(s).
TW
I received the same info - $400 to register a domain offered to trademark holders first.My company holds 3 marks so $1,200 just to stop someone else from registering them.
I'm seriously debating whether to apply in the Sunrise period, or simply wait for the Landrush on February 3.
They cannot break 1000 mark already for several months.
Landrush starts 3rd February. [uk.news.yahoo.com]
Companies that missed the opportunity to register their trademarks with the new .tel top-level domain (TLD) will get another opportunity with the opening of the landrush period from 3 February. The sunrise period of registrations reserved for trademark owners ran from 3 December to 2 February. The .tel TLD will be open to all from tomorrow until 23 March.
Companies that missed the opportunity to register their trademarks with the new .tel top-level domain (TLD) will get another opportunity with the opening of the landrush period from 3 February.
In other words, no one bought them... so let's try this again... ;-)
So, will I buy into this tld? Wont.tel
Does anyone else have additional in.tel on dot.tel? do.tel
Of course, with the recent new ICANN stance on open TLDs, what is the future for these registries? Oh.Hell
It’s just a directory. What’s the point?
Of course, these days policies everywhere seem to change on a whim, so who knows?
i.e. Will owning a .tel domain boost your SEO?
Ship
(P.S. Maybe we might even avoid having to bid on our own company name in Adwords...?)
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Signed,
maximillianos.vip.tel
But, we got the name we wanted, beating a similarily named US competitor to it. Who are apparently asleep at the switch .. maybe their webmaster should join WebmasterWorld ;-) .
$375 for 3 years! Yikes!
Precisely why I'll wait until I can get the three I would like for USD 9.60 each...if they've gone, they've gone.
It’s just a directory. What’s the point?
I have a lot of country specific and international sites and this would actually be an advantage for me to have the contact information for all worldwide offices and contacts all in one place and save having to update this information site by site.
I already do this with our footer copyright identical on all sites going to the same privacy, legal and cookies site on our .info site.
Just how many others are prepared to do this I have no idea since many companies are very reluctant to give out any direct contact information it seems to me, mind you, they could use .tel to go to their useless call centres too!
It’s just a directory. What’s the point?
I think its going to be the yellow pages for the internet, cell phones and mobile devices. I would imagine that Google will treat the info on those domains as an authority for contact information. Especially because trademark holders were given the first crack at them and the high entry cost means there will be less spam.
Just a guess, but don't too surprised that those domains rank #1 for trademarked company names in a couple years.
But I don't see the monetary value of these domains since this is just a place to store contact information?
If I were to turn around and sell guitar.tel, who would want it... Wouldn't Fender guitars rather have fender.tel?
What am I not getting here? All these domains seem pointless to me too, unless it's your business name.
And if I weren't going to turn around and sell guitar.tel, what point is it for me to own it, what kind of things could you do with this site? What kind of contact info would I put? Do they allow ads? I'm just not getting this at all.
