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.tel Coming Soon
GeorgeK writes "ICANN hasn't posted it on their website yet, but according to one of their board members, the .tel top-level domain was approved." notellmo.tel is going to be one of the first domains sold.
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noaskno.tel
I want dontaskdont.tel.
dontaskdont.tel
I want to register in.tel.
Mo.tel, eh?
I'm gonna go for kissand.tel - of course, we won't be seeing too many slashdot readers there, eh?
Win.tel :-)
Wonder who's going to buy me out.
How is this different or better? .tel the one who gets to make all the rules for it?
Why is the sponsor of
This seems highly undemocratic and arbitrarily in favor of a corporation.
Bitches.
yep, another party line.
The .xxx domain was renamed .telall, the .gov domain was renamed .telsecrets, and Microsoft bought win.tel.
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
hos.tel
Whats next .sex .foo .poo .pee? I know this is stupid...
Forget notellmo.tel. in.tel is going to be the first domain sold.
Jeremy
Looking for a Python IRC bot?
Is this designed just to be another money maker, or is it actually designed to be useful?
With the .xxx TLD, the consensus seemed to be that the .com TLD would still reign supreme, but the only real use would be a complete TLD for filtering companies to block. It seems like this might be headed the same way.
Surely domain squatters will soon rush the registrar with registration of names suggested like win.tel, mo.tel, nor.tel, and so on, which would really defeat the purpose of a specialised .tel TLD if they could be registered.
InfoSec that matters, when it counts.
All of the hilarious domains are substantially less funny when you pronounce the dot. win dot tel? I dont geddit?
Will we ever get a domain with a price the same order than the associated cost (adding a small line in a database that is then cached by the ISP servers)
hotelmo.tel holiday inn, and if you keep on acting up, I'll just fuck your friend..
ok, doesn't work.
He tried to kill me with a forklift!
I once had 3 bananas and an apple!
ssh.dont.tel ?
or perhaps...
dont.ask.dont.tel ?
ICANN.tel
right back atcha
car.tel
I'll be your candy shop of infinite deliciousity if you'll be my discotheque of endless rump-shaking.
This one: http://www.oneacross.com/ is my favourite.
i.e ???tel returns cartel, pastel etc
I got dibs on in.tel
or else!
And you wasted it bitch!
The swiss will want william.tel
Racketeer capitalists will want car.tel
CIA will want In-Q.tel
The jews will want aviv.tel
The chipmaker will want in.tel.
The other chipmaker will want betterthan-in.tel, cheaperthan-in.tel and fasterthan-in.tel, etc.
In Hungary "tel" means winter so a few local ski holiday organizers will likely want to get the domain.
Another TLD.. Who-hoo.
Isn't it time they get rid of them instead? They don't have any meaning anymore. They just create a hassle when you have to remember if that site was '.org' or '.net' or '.com' or whatever.
And this in turn does nothing but generate business for domain-squatters anyway.
The internet is too big nowadays for tacking-on a TLD to provide unique identification. And 'solving' that by creating more TLDs only aggrevates the problem.
And de facto most people are using Google or some other search engine anyway. Guessing at the domain name just doesn't work as well as it once did.
I got sue by Intel for using in.tel .
bates.mo.tel.
Ma.tel
ho.tel
k.tel
Q.tel
one.tel
car.tel
chat.tel
hos.tel
lin.tel
man.tel
pas.tel
and the ever famous imgonna.tel
flinging poop since 1969
I've been pushing for .pad as it could be for domains that are easy to type from a phone keypad. Thus it can use only letters available as the first press of a given key. A, D, G, J, M, P, T, and W. I wanted to make a non-profit called APT.PAD to sponsor the TLD. I imagine it being something like tinyurl for browsing from phones. Typing long or none-keypad friendly URLs is a pain on most phones.
At what price learning? At what cost wisdom? The price is a man's peace of mind, and the cost is his life.
GIGO
hospi.tel
If ICANN has accepted this request, it is a very subtle political statement. Check out section 15.1.1 of the application - "Avoiding established addressing systems and regulations" - it promises NOT to try to put phone numbers in the .tel domain. .tel proposals have suggested exactly that, and this has had ITU in a tizzy. .tel TLD, ICANN is making a statement that it will not create TLDs that say up front that they're out to upset the ITU national regulators' club and its telephone numbers fun-and-games. .tel as described is utterly useless, but the other proposed usages of .tel had a potential to cause damage in addition to being useless.
Other
By registering this utterly useless
I'm neither surprised nor unhappy.
Wow! He may have wasted it but shit - look at that UID, and look at his posts! First post indeed!
...register Bech.tel.
... a .fart toplevel domain? Because I really want to register clownpenis.fart -- the last name available on the internet.
AFAIK aspera does not mean aspiration, it means roughness, difficulties.
Mac.tel!!! And a big logo of an apple breaking through a window
sittingonmy.tel
And the obvious comeback:
moveyer.tel
Of course most of you probably think these ideas are a:
paininthe.tel
so I'll stop now.
The U.S. really needs an English to Wisdom dictionary.
Can't this entire TLD business be eliminated altogether. Why can't there be free form hostnames - I think we've come across a long way to build nameservers & client libraries to support it. It will be a big hassle, but it could be pigyybacked with IPv6 and deployed along with it.
So we could have websites like: http://intel.inside/ OR http://intel-inside/ (who needs dots other than http://slash./ )
It could work better for branding as well!
Nandz.
After reading the application for .tel by Telnic, the company applying to run .tel, I'm still puzzled why ICANN would allow this TLD.
Is their idea to compartmentalize the Domain namespace by TLD? So the domain juegos.tel is my phone address, while juegos.xxx hosts my private porn collection?
One explanation by Telnic why .tel is needed is, that people already have too many addresses to remember (home phone, mobile, work, fax, email, IM etc.). But it's totally unclear how .tel would fix this.
For Internet communications, there is already the addressing provided by SIP (the protocol used for VoIP signalling). And SIP uses a URI, just like an email address. So there really is no need to introduce another TLD, just to indicate, hey, you can call me with this.
With a SIP URI, one can actually use a regular email address for making calls, sending IMs etc. And it solves exactly the problem described by Telnic, too many addresses, by converging everything into a single URI.
Please, no whining that you can't enter a URI on your phones keypad. Millions of people are sending SMSs every day, and they have no problem whatsoever typing text on a numberpad. .tel looks like just another stupid money making scheme. With the chairman of Telnic being the former CEO of Telefonica, the spanish incumbent, why am I not surprised that this is happening?
I don't get it, why are they so hard in accepting such and such extension... I mean, I understand that some protection is needed for .edu or national extensions, but why prevent people to register domainname.whatevertheywant
as long as whatevertheywant isn't too close too something else to prevent fishing. Extensions 3 letters could be allowed to be whatever people want them to be. Also, now, with the predominance of search engine, who really care about the domain name. My parents won't understand the concept of an URL and whenever they see a site advertised by it's domain name they think it's meant to be typed into google (sad but heck, it works).
Maybe AOL as evil and stupid and lusers oriented they are was right with keywords. Normal people might not be up to the task of understanding an URL.
\u262D = \u5350
in.tel?
...
Holy shit
I have just passed into the realm of supernerddom.
Like blue-ghost shit, but without Yoda.
Remember folks, slashdot doesn't have a -1 "disagree" moderation!
ICANN takes a $6 cut from each one 6$ for what service ?
in.tel? =)
others:
william.tel (yeah I know. not spelled right)
mat.tel
frac.tel (yeah I know. not spelled right)
Why isn't there complete freedom to use whatever one likes?
yeah, it doesn't make sense. But you wish you thought of it first, didn't you?
In the name of suggestions, why not
.com-Profit! applies on the .tel aswell ;)
http://world.phonebook.tel/555-141414
Where the 555-[insert your phreaking phoneno# or email or whatever] would lead to your page with all the contact info you'd wanna post on the 'net?
- Investment money to create the site, anyone? (Yup, the 1-2-3
Ok....it's TLD soup now. With just a few TLD's, it was usefull to have them regulated. But by now there's just a couple too many of them (you gotta try [companyyou'retryingtoreach].com/net/org/biz/tv/in fo/xxx/tel/[countrycode] and hope you get the correct one). I think now it's gone far enough that arbitrary [maybe 3/4 character limited] TLD's wouldn't cloud the already clouded situation.
In this cluttered TLD-age, why not have www.[yourname].[surname]?
-- Waht? Tehr's a preveiw buottn?
ISTR that there were a pile of them already "reserved" by telcos the world over by .tel and this is how they got them on-side.
.tv guys were involved too.
I think the
(caveat: I did some work for the 2001 proposal in a former life, and have no knowledge of what's happened since then, so this may be complete bollocks now).
Smegma.
want a hoe? and a ho*tel?
maxi.pad?
Because You don't want to put too much load on the DNS ROOT Servers !!!!!
~AC
and set up a frww cooperatively run registry?
Dibs on y.all !
guglielmo.tel
Computer are useless: they can only give you answers. - Pablo Picasso
How long before we see goatse.tel?
When asked about this, he said "illnever.tel"
OK so shoot me, that was just to hard to resist.
whogivesashit.tel
James Buchanan
Zombie Chief Executive/15th President of the USA
and per doesn't mean 'by', but 'through'
... it works for either:
cheap-ho.tel
zork% mv *.asp
283 files eaten by a grue
For the old time baseball fans: mickey.man.tel. The site admin is Babe Root.
Could TLD's be usefull if they were properly restricted? I could imagine .CHAR which you can only get if you are a registered charity, .BANK if you are a real bank etc. Or would that be to easy to trick?
10 ?"Hello World" life was simple then
Congratufuckinlations!!.. :) .. U is teh r0xx0r!!..
so they take 6$ for redirecting an ISP DNS cache to your domain DNS server ?
and only when the DNS cache time-to-live is over...
what storage and bandwidth takes this compared to what needs your web server ?
6$ is far too much for that tiny bandwidth and storage !
So, when will the slashdot crowd be heard and .teh be made available?
A World in a Grain of Sand / Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Infinity in the Palm of your Hand / And Eternity in an Hour.
Could someone explain why in 2005 do we even need top level domains?
Speak truth to power.
amdnotin.tel
(continuing to ignore the typo: musuem) I'm amazed. I'm thrilled to think that 100,000 museums, cleanly defined, no porn (at first google, there don't even seem to be any sex museums), and no ad-ware/spy-ware/mal-ware (as far as I can see, quickly searching for the most common sources of the most common problems) is terrific. I'm spending the rest of the day here.
won't someone stop them?
We don't need all these new TLD's, especially seemingly arbitrary ones like this.
... If it wasn't for the sunlight / I'd swear I was dead.
- DRFSR
I just want to know how to register a domain in all these new TLDs that come up. I don't want someone else to beat me to the punch on goatse.xxx, for instance. Can anyone help me out, here?
Not even vacuum cleaner companies?
"I'm not impatient. I just hate waiting." - My Dad
Domain registers YOU!
ICANN.sex
For on line wine purchases: musca.tel
Any baseball fans that want to register OctavioDo.tel
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Several of the new TLDs that Slashdot bemoans do exactly that. .coop can only be registered by verified co-operatives or co-operative service organizations. .pro can only be registered by verified "professionals" (lawyers, doctors, etc) .museum can only be registered by verified musuems .post can only be registered by verified post offices
.org came up for a new contract, the same people who started .coop bid to ensure .org would only be used for nonprofit purposes, and that a verification system would enforce this. They lost the bid, unfortunately.
When
U R MY HERO MANG
6$ is far too much for that tiny bandwidth and storage !
You're right; consider it a textbook example of why monopolies are bad.
and only when the DNS cache time-to-live is over...
No, they only run a few top level servers, most top-level servers are run for no fee at all by third parties. check here. ICANN only runs L, Verisign only runs A and J.
RIPE, ISC and NORDUnet/Autonomica do all of the heavy lifting, really.
So, basically, ICANN and Verisign are only in the business of making an entry in the master database.
SCO employee? Check out the bounty
First, these are the two .TEL applications:
I can see how there could be some confusion with the numbering systems in the world if we had the number-based .tel TLD. But, it could at least be potentially useful. I see no value in a name-based .tel except that the registry operator, accredited registrars, and ICANN will all make money.
Will the name-based .tel be for the good of the internet? Or in the internet's common interest? Probably not. Might the number-based .tel aid in VOIP or 'bridge the gap between phone networks and computer networks'? Maybe.
batchelor.pad?
If it is, it has to be sold to the NoTel Motel in Tucson, Arizona. Yes there really is such a place, and yes it's right next to the unofficial Red Light street district.
"It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
And they do advertise rooms by the week, by the day, and by the hour.
"It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."