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$2.99 at eNom: .Tel Price Drop

$2.99 at eNom: .Tel Price Drop

eNom offers promotional pricing on domain.

.telIf you’ve been sitting on the sidelines for the .tel top level domain name, your patience may have been rewarded: eNom is now offering the domains for only $2.99 per year under promotional pricing.

.tel domain names don’t function like normal top level domains. Instead, it’s sort of like a business card on the web. You can upload content such as your contact information, links to other web sites, etc. on the domains. Recently functionality was added to insert Google Adsense ads onto the domains as well.

Will lower pricing spur demand for the domain? It’s hard to tell. The domain was launched a little over a year ago, so the TLD just experienced its first major drop cycle. As of the end of last year regarding 265,000 .tel domains were registered. And with hundreds of fresh TLDs coming onto the market in a couple years, competition is regarding to get much more fierce.

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