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200,000 .Tel Domains Registered. Check Out Our List of Available .Tel’s.

Friday, May 22nd, 2009

Yup, it’s true. Dot-tel has reached 200,000 registrations. At this point it’s probably safe to assume that:

  • Common dictionary words and place names have been registered.
  • All 3 letter combinations are likely gone
  • Numbers have been snapped up
  • Trademarks are safeguarded

So what does that leave?  Lot’s apparently!

Popular phrases and word combinations come to mind. Family names.  And surprisingly, lot’s of cool, single words are also still available.  After finding out that 171,476 words are currently in use according to the Oxford English Dictionary , we figured plenty of good ones must be left.

A colleague and I rambled off 25 words each in rapid succession, then entered them into a .TEL domain search and got the following results (as of 2:21 pm PST on Friday, May 22nd):

Crows.tel  Available    
Punch.tel  Taken   Whois | Make Offer
Cardboard.tel  Taken   Whois | Make Offer
Fixate.tel  Available 
Impressive.tel  Taken   Whois | Make Offer
Rationale.tel  Available    
Vitality.tel  Taken   Whois | Make Offer
Operational.tel  Taken   Whois | Make Offer
Glamorous.tel  Taken   Whois | Make Offer
Impossibility.tel  Available    
Fabricate.tel  Available    
Sleuth.tel  Taken   Whois | Make Offer
Sneakers.tel  Taken   Whois | Make Offer
Ciao.tel  Taken   Whois | Make Offer
Arriba.tel  Available    
Bonbons.tel  Taken   Whois | Make Offer
Folksong.tel  Available 
Immediacy.tel  Available    
Cuddles.tel  Taken   Whois | Make Offer
Template.tel  Taken   Whois | Make Offer
Tackle.tel  Taken   Whois | Make Offer
Wandering.tel  Available    
Stinger.tel  Available    
Reaction.tel  Taken   Whois | Make Offer
Swollen.tel  Available    
Irritant.tel  Available    
Refreshing.tel  Taken 
Breezy.tel  Available    
Tender.tel  Taken   Whois | Make Offer
Touching.tel  Taken   Whois | Make Offer
Engaging.tel  Available    
Decisive.tel  Available 
Burnt.tel  Available    
Limerick.tel  Taken   Whois | Make Offer
Siamese.tel  Available    
Ocean.tel  Taken   Whois | Make Offer
Trapeze.tel  Taken   Whois | Make Offer
Parachute.tel  Taken   Whois | Make Offer
Olivertwist.tel  Available    
Artisan.tel  Taken   Whois | Make Offer
Ample.tel  Available
Taxonomy.tel Available

Now go search for your own, or snag yourself one of the above names.

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Telfeeder.com – A New Tool for Populating your .Tel Domains

Thursday, May 14th, 2009

telfeederI am going to start by admitting outright that I haven’t tried this new .tel service yet. I am typically relunctant to fork over my login and password details to anything; that said, the concept behind TelFeeder.com is a great one.

TelFeeder.com was created to help owners of multiple .tel domains efficiently upload data to them.

All a .tel owner needs to do is download a template provided by TelFeeder.com, open it in Microsoft Excel and enter their information into the fields. Users are able to input multiple Contact Types, as well as Headers, Folders and Keywords.

Anticipating reservations like the one I expressed earlier, TelFeeder.com wants you to know that they will not store the username and password of your TelHosting account; however, for the utmost security they suggest that users might want to change their passwords after using the service.

If you have a lot of .Tel names to update, TelFeeder.com could be a good option for you. On the face of it, the tradeoff seems worth it – spend hours populating your .tel names, or update them once with TelFeeder.com and then change your password. It’s your decision.

On the surface of things, TelFeeder.com looks very promising for scaling up .tel usage and giving owners the tools they need to automatically create and update directories. We need services like this to ramp up .tel usage.

Hmmmm, I think I have just talked myself into giving telfeeder.com a try.

See a related post on Telfeeder.com om Domain Name Wire.

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Close Real Estate Sales with .TEL

Thursday, May 14th, 2009

amyjonestel1We’ve spent a bit of time over the past few months discussing industries and verticals we believe .tel could have a big impact on. One of these is real estate.

Attention all realtors, while I paint you a picture …

Shirley and Bill are in the market to buy a house.  On their Sunday drive they stumble upon a house that appeals to them.

Sadly, by the time they get home – after picking up groceries, going through the car wash and visiting aunt Mable – they have forgotten the address of the house for sale and the real estate agency it is listed with.

Dear realtors – if you all would break down and get yourname.tel and plop it on your “for sale” signs, people like Shirley and Bill would actually stand a chance at getting in touch with you.

Now there is no guarantee that a handy dandy .tel name will induce Shirley and Bill to purchase the house, but it probably help them contact you for more information. And remember your name.  And refer you to their friends.

Perhaps the best thing about .tel for realtors, and other relationship based professions (hairdressers, massage therapists and car salespeople come to mind) is that you can move, change employers, open up your own business and still be found 5 years later because your .tel remains the same.

That’s the great thing about tel – the game may change but the name remains the same.

More Information for Realtors

Watch a short video designed for realtors about how .TEL works and its benefits.

The  .TEL  4  Realtors blog also does a nice job of showing how to add real estate listings to your .TEL

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BredPit.tel – Sexiest Man Alive (in Macedonia)

Thursday, April 30th, 2009

bredpitI was trolling around SEDO.com again to see what  new .tel names have gone up for sale.

I saw that bredpit.tel was up for sale for $250.  I thought “Oh no – that poor person has done a misspelling on Brad Pitt and is now trying to sell it off for some ridiculous amount.”

Well I was wrong.  Apparently Brad Pitt’s name translates to Bred Pit in Macedonian.  There is a Facebook Group for Bred Pit with almost 500 members.A Google search for bred pit, brings up large numbers of Brad Pitt links without asking “Did you mean Brad Pitt”.

Who knew that you had to get not only your real name but your translated name?  Gosh, it’s exhausting. Hmmm – it looks like “Van Disel” will be having the same problem.

Search for yourname.tel, and don’t forget to pick up the Macedonian translation ;)

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.TEL Plugin for Outlook Now Available

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009

outlooksTelnic has released a .tel plug-in for Microsoft Outlook.

The .tel for Outlook application allows users to easily look up a .tel domain and save .tel data to their Outlook contacts, making their Outlook address book dynamic and filled with live data. The application also allows users to quickly accept friend requests and switch profiles all without ever leaving Outlook.

You can download the Outlook plugin on the .tel Community website: http://telnic.org/community-applications-outlook.html. Let us know what you think!

Good .TEL names are still available, search for yours today. Email is also now available for .TEL names

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