You might view it as pessimistic, but I can't help see your issue as being similar as the one with the .ly domains.  You can have a bunch of solid generics, but if they don't make sense for the TLD or offer obvious monetization opportunities, you have your work cut out for you.  As .tel is being marketed as an easy place to keep your contact information, I don't see why, without considerable effort on your part, anyone would go to charm.tel.  I can see more benefit in something like cycles.tel as you might be able to build that out into a sort of white pages for cycle shops, but there again, you're looking at a lot of effort on your part that you may not see any rewards for.

Thks for your answers folks, I'm not as pessimit as you are.

Actually I've sold a few of my French names for an average of 200 $ each. For sure it is a slow beginning, but still a beginning. It seems there is a move in western Canada in British Columbia.

Or course, anyone
who has more than a passing interest in .tel is looking to Telnic to
redouble their marketing efforts to raise the awareness of the
extension.

It's been over a month now since they've hired Ian Bowen-Morris so I
expect we'll be hearing something soon regarding his efforts.

So, let's hope. God almighty I also have lost all my previous answer because i had not signed in before i began writting.

Den.

God almighty, i just typed out a lengthy reply only to hiht 'submit' and find out i was not logged in and lost everything.   Grrrrrr

now you get the short version.   No real market = not very liquid. Possible to wait 1-2 years might sell 1 or 2 of your 100 for decent price (pay.tel just sold for $5k via sedo) but looking atyour names they dont look that premium (truck is good, the rest i say are not that great at all).  Top end if you have to sell the farm and get lucky to find a buyer to buy entire portfolio maybe $5k range (if youre lucky) but likely closer to the first posters estimate.  

(not as articulate as previous reply)

100 X $10 reg fee X 2 years = $2000. No thanks. I would spend my money elsewhere. If you kept your top 5 maybe you'd get a $100 offer at Sedo on one of them to recover some of your costs? I was among the few that thought that .tel would offer a unique service but they've really not pushed the market forward as much as I was hoping and in 5 years if they have a service that does take off, you'll still be able to get in cheap because domainers just have not bought in.

Good question, i think mark gonna have to answer this one..