After news of Afilias acquiring the .mobi registry broke out, the obvious question is: Will Neustar acquire the .tel registry to even out the balance?
There are hardly any benefits from such an acquisition.
The number of registered .mobi domains is approximately one million. That’s one million domains that can be developed, pointed to content or simply parked.
On the other hand, the TelNIC registry – handlers of the .tel TLD – have not announced any numbers since they broke through 250,000 registrations last May. Domains in the .tel realm cannot be developed or pointed to content or any PPC companies.
But they sure make fun commercials.
The real fun will occur in a few weeks on the one year anniversary of the .tel open registration; when these undevelopable domains will be dropped and abandoned en masse.
Neustar is not stupid to acquire such a dodo of a TLD and in our opinion, they won’t.
