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Old 03-02-2009, 01:15:41 PM     #1 (permalink)
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.TEL Scam

Just seen this advert:



I would be VERY VERY careful spending cash beliving that statement

Irresponsible advertising and pure hype - shocking really.

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Indeed!
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Indeed!
Hoist out a crappy extension that's only allowed to be a business card, serving no purpose compared to the many which already prolificate the internet, no questions asked.

Buy and sell existing legitimate domain names, and you're the scum of the earth!

There's rules, and there's rules!
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Reading some of the guff that is out there about .tel is amusing, it seems that the guys running it dont even have a proper idea of what it really it BBC NEWS | Technology | New domain to be web's phone book

Mr Mahdavi said it had some similarities to the Enum projects that aim to bind phone numbers and e-mail addresses into a unified contact system.

The flaw, he said, with Enum was that it demanded people be on the web. By contrast, .tel will work with many different devices such as smart phones.


Erm , how would that smart phone get info? Ah yes... by going online

He added that .tel domains have a "friending mechanism" that will grant close friends access to private areas that give more ways for a person to be contacted.

"It will become their place on the cloud," said Mr Mahdavi.


I am guessing that is the cloud next door to cloud cuckoo land
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"It will become their place on the cloud," said Mr Mahdavi.

I am guessing that is the cloud next door to cloud cuckoo land
pmsl he should be a comic
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And the thing is that some will actually fall for it... (but not anyone who has ever traded in other crappy extensions).
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dot-tel-domain-names-sales-could-spark-online-land-grab

More bullshit hype, courtesy of the RSS feed at base of acorn....

Talk about stinging you hard at the start..$375 a pop for 3 yrs, they're certainly making sure they get their pound of flesh from you, before you realise its waste of time extension like so many of the other recent 'must haves'

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More bullshit hype, courtesy of the RSS feed at base of acorn....

Talk about stinging you hard at the start..$375 a pop for 3 yrs, they're certainly making sure they get their pound of flesh from you, before you realise its waste of time extension like so many of the other recent 'must haves'

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It gets better.....

I thought ok i'll take a punt on a name to then find out that every other site which is taking .TEL landrush registrations says its NOT AVAILABLE, yet every name you search for on LCN.com is showing available, looks like there will be some serious refunds coming...

So even when you buy the name and pay for it, it still shows available in there system, total joke!

STAY WELL CLEAR

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refunds coming...
the biggest crime is that the so called "refund" in most cases for these backorders is a domain credit... and those registrars that do allow you to refund cash, usually charge a "handling/admin" fee.

I had this bad experience at EuroDNS, backordered 20 names, paid for them, was then later told they were unavailable because TM holders had later applied for them.. (they were all generic btw)

I had to wait 2 months for a credit, and then was charged a xx% handling fee.

EuroDNS, AsiaDNS... thieves of the highest magnitude
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TELscam.ORG purchased

Unsatisfied that I purchased a few TEL domains then realising that they were not actually a domain name but a method of getting people to unwillingly join a directory listing, I bought a REAL domain name to spread the word.

TELscam.org is born.
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