Dot .tel registrations plummet
Dot .tel – the only TLD to be launched without full DNS capabilities – has lost 34,000 registrations since March of last year. That’s roughly a 10% loss year-to-year and the Ides of March, marking the eunuch TLD’s 3rd year since the 2009 launch, haven’t arrived yet. The stats show a total number of 299,195 […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.The .TEL Epitaph
As we predicted a month ago, the growth rate of .TEL – the only TLD that apparently came out of the ICANN stables while still in beta – has remained practically zero. With 245k registrations upon the start of September, .tel is now being threatened for double numbers by a very healthy-looking .Me. The Montenegro […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Fed up Domainer quits day job at Geek Squad
For Timothy Frolker the dream of a lifetime was to work for the Best Buy elite team of hardware geeks – the Geek Squad. After several months on the job, it became apparent that his dream was in fact a nightmare in process. Harassed and ridiculed by colleagues, Timothy quit, but not without making a […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Dot .tel market in panic – Dynadot offers 50% discount
It’s just like any liquidation sale – only this is not about a shoe store, it’s the .tel prices getting slashed. Sort of. Hit by numerous reviews disclosing the lack of usability on the world wide web, the TelNIC product known as “dot tel” is suffering a major drop in domain registrations. Despite its introduction […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Did Overstock PR trigger a new Domain Record?
If you have been following the .CO registration counter as we have, you’ve seen it roll past the 100k, 200k, 300k registrations. Less than 10 days since the official rollout, the .CO marvel has surpassed that of many other TLDs from recent and not so recent past. It’s very difficult nowadays to generate so much […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Putting the final nail to the .TEL .COffin
When the .TEL TLD came out of the ICANN stables it was supposed to be a revolutionary new method of establishing a new identity online. Adding to the launch hoopla was the infamous Ben.tel video depicting two hormone-laden Brits fighting for the attention of an uptown blonde – all while riding an intercity train. The […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Telnic adds insult to injury: Launching IDN .tel domains
Once considered “the new frontier” in domain names, the dot tel TLD has shrunk in size faster than George Costanza’s wiener in that Seinfeld episode. Current data from HosterStats are rather disappointing: .tel has fallen below the 250,000 registrations mark, bringing its growth to a negative 10%. This was to be expected, after the mutilated […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.TelNic to offer Free .tel Renewals – Master plan unveiled at Lion’s Head
In an effort to retain thousands of .tel domains that expired or will expire during the remainder of the week, TelNic – the Registry known for the biggest and most inventive TLD ever to leave the ICANN uterus – considers offering free renewals. We met the TelNic boys at their local pub, where they usually […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Ten Reasons why .tel is the next .com
There are so many reasons why .tel – which was launched by the TelNIC registry a year ago – is the next .com and we had a hard time to trim them down to ten. Ummm… It’s different You can have your own .tel Cool purple logo! TelNIC says it’s great It’s shorter than .mobi […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved..com Voted as the Worst TLD of the Decade by Modern Domainers
You thought your .com domains were hot stuff? You’d better think again, chum. Surprisingly, an ever-expanding group of business owners are supporting a junior TLD for their online presence. What is that TLD? Citing zero development costs, no delays in updating the rich DNS layer, instant access and availability from every mobile device on the […]
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