Hunt for the ugly duckling

Telnic trying to replicate their earlier success (Love Train)


Hunt for the ugly duckling

Telnic forum thread (most posts had been deleted after):

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05-13-2010, 11:22 AM


Nadya


.tel Treasure Hunt

Hi all,

Tomorrow at 12pm BST we're starting the exciting .tel treasure hunt. For your convenience, I'll post useful links here:

* http://thejourneystarts.tel/ - the main resource & starting point
* http://telnic.org/competition.html - official rules of the competition, please read
* http://telnic.org/banners/treasurehunt/ - banners to promote the competition
* http://www.prnewswire.com/news-relea...-93661194.html - press release with the announcement

Let the fun begin!

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mactel

05-13-2010, 11:57 AM

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This will keep the minds of .Tel users occupied and distracted, rather than that they will be able to be worried about the real worries and problems about .Tel.

What happens if the registry can't fullfill the promised time stipulated for releasing the template selection: Don't worrie, be happy and play the ".tel treasure hunt". That's what you usually do with small children, to let them forget about the existing problems and worries, and let them be in a "other world" of play and fantasy.



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Nadya

05-13-2010, 12:09 PM

Mactel,

Thank you for your comment. Please remember that this is a brand awareness and educational campaign for .tel domains and TelPages targeted at internet users in general, not exclusively at .tel owners. This is why we've shared banners and PR so that active .tel owners can help spread the word and increase the value and popularity of .tel domains.
If the competition doesn't sound appealing to you, you can continue focusing on securing your portfolio, developing your domains and sales efforts.

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Mactel

05-13-2010, 12:44 PM

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Yes, but:
"help spread the word and increase the value and popularity of .tel domains" will make more sense, if there is a decent telproxy to show ("off" with).

At this stage, and mainly because telproxy is not very appealing to look at, many potential companies are not very interested, or not (yet) interested in .Tel.

So, this promo effort, comes too early, wheras the efforts to make .Tel look nicer, are very late.

It is not so smart to try to promote a ugly duckling, when it would be easyer to promote a white swan.

Put your efforts and energy into bringing out the .Tel template selection. "Treasure hunt" is another thing, done at the wrong time. Same as the new telproxy came out too late, just before renewal time, putting loads of people off, if only left "gray in gray", and not used to add a nice logo, and a tasteful colour scheme. The new .Tel look was quasi a anti-promotion, as the look needs a lot more refinement options.

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