Innovating with dot-tel and managing your dot-tel for the purpose of monetizing it is a challenge that is not suited for the closed-minded or those who are stubborn in their ways. The best dot-tel applications will be services that no one had even conceived until dot-tel surfaced. Dot-tel has the ability to create innovations by forcing people to think differently, innovations that would not have happened without dot-tel. If you are not a creative developer you definitely do NOT want to buy a dot-tel domain.

Dot-tel is not meant to be “yet another TLD”. If that is what you are looking for, you won’t find it in a dot-tel. Dot-tel provides a service that is new to the Internet and makes use of the network in a previously unexplored way. This new way does not rely on any one platform to serve it’s purpose. Dot-tel domains are meant to build upon what exists today on the Internet and also for what will come in the future.

If you are an innovator, you shouldn’t buy A dot-tel domain, as in one. You’re probably going to want more than one. And you might not want JUST the dot-tel domain. You might want to put some sort of web-based interaction with your dot-tel domains, so if you do, a complimentary dot-com wouldn’t hurt. You could manage your dot-tel empire from a different location if you wanted to though. Maybe your own server, maybe your desktop or maybe even from your palmtop. Dot-tel offers the potential for all of these possibilities and more. But if you would rather stick strictly to web sites, then definitely don’t buy a dot-tel.

The elegance of dot-tel is freedom from the burdens imposed by other “standard” technologies. If your dot-tel based service can benefit from a web-based interface, then you can build it. If your dot-tel application is never to see the light of the World Wide Web, then you have no need for web servers, browsers, scripts, etc. Dot-tel gives you freedom to create and build anything you want using the Internet as your data store, delivery system and hub. Those who access your dot-tel can access it anyway they want, from their desktop, laptop, palmtop, settop, etc.

Dot-tel is meant to foster the creation of services rather than creating another slew of parked pages that don’t really accomplish much for surfers beyond redirecting them. You can’t park dot-tel domains so you are forced to actually use them. Whether that use be for building a directory or something else, at least when a surfer goes to a dot-tel directory, they will get lean, relevant information.

As a dot-tel developer you are taking on the challenge of developing a domain that serves a specific purpose. Using a dot-tel address, relevant information can be organized consistently and delivered in a way that is globally accessible and truly platform independent. If you can’t see the usefulness in this, then please, DON’T BUY A DOT-TEL DOMAIN.