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.tel Coming Soon

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the dot-dot-dot dept.

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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  1. helpful tool by songofthephoenix · · Score: 2, Informative
    If you are looking for words that suite that top level domain use a crossword solver to get word matches.
    This one: http://www.oneacross.com/ is my favourite.

    i.e ???tel returns cartel, pastel etc

  2. Re:Evil domain to register... by sirdude · · Score: 2, Informative

    Words ending in tel.

  3. Re:price according to real cost: any chance ? by Jason1729 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Try here for free domains on the .eu.org second level domain.

    You're never going to get a second level for free because ICANN takes a $6 cut from each one, but there are countless domain name owners who offer free or cheap subdomains.

  4. Quote of the Day by obender · · Score: 2, Informative
    Ad astra per aspera. [To the stars by aspiration.]

    AFAIK aspera does not mean aspiration, it means roughness, difficulties.

  5. Hello ICANN, what are you thinking? by sipmeister · · Score: 2, Informative

    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?