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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. Dibs! by phantom_programmer · · Score: 5, Funny

    I want dontaskdont.tel.

    1. Re:Dibs! by eclectro · · Score: 2


      OK, then I want "showand.tel"

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    2. Re:Dibs! by ghoti · · Score: 2, Funny

      What about tellisnotspelledlike.tel? ;)

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    3. Re:Dibs! by cd_serek · · Score: 4, Funny

      And if your name is Norman, why not try "batesmo.tel"

  2. Evil domain to register... by inflex · · Score: 3, Funny

    Win.tel :-)

    Wonder who's going to buy me out.

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

      Words ending in tel.

  3. what's wrong with tel:// by OsirisX11 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    How is this different or better?
    Why is the sponsor of .tel the one who gets to make all the rules for it?
    This seems highly undemocratic and arbitrarily in favor of a corporation.

    Bitches.

    1. Re:what's wrong with tel:// by m4dm4n · · Score: 2, Funny

      Really they need to do the .sux tld. With the rule that a company is NOT allowed to buy their own name. :)

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  4. sex.tel by qualico · · Score: 3, Funny

    yep, another party line.

    1. Re:sex.tel by mikeophile · · Score: 2, Funny

      and the closely related ho.tel

  5. notellmo.tel? by jemfinch · · Score: 4, Funny

    Forget notellmo.tel. in.tel is going to be the first domain sold.

    Jeremy

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  6. Purpose? by SkiifGeek · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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.

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  7. Enough suggestions al'eady! by nmoog · · Score: 3, Insightful

    All of the hilarious domains are substantially less funny when you pronounce the dot. win dot tel? I dont geddit?

    1. Re:Enough suggestions al'eady! by cujo_1111 · · Score: 4, Funny

      Same thing happens to /. when you tell someone to have a look...

      Person 1: 'Go to slashdot dot org'
      Person 2: 'Is that one dot or two?'
      P1: 'Just one dot'
      P2: 'Ok then. Wait a sec, slash dot org doesn't work...'
      P1: 'No, it is slashdot dot org, not slash dot org'
      P2: 'I'll try again. Nope slash dot dot org doesn't work either.'
      P1: Head explodes

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    2. Re:Enough suggestions al'eady! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      You missed half the joke. The full address is "h t t p colon slash slash slash dot dot org".

    3. Re:Enough suggestions al'eady! by Skater · · Score: 2, Funny

      Try explaining the URL of the US's Dept of Transportation sometime... "dot dot dot gov"

  8. First sugar hill gang post... by 3.5+stripes · · Score: 3, Funny

    hotelmo.tel holiday inn, and if you keep on acting up, I'll just fuck your friend..

    ok, doesn't work.

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  9. Are certain regulatory bodies receiving kickbacks? by mikeophile · · Score: 2, Funny

    ICANN.tel

  10. CHE4P C0C4!NE!!! by TheStonepedo · · Score: 2, Funny

    car.tel

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    I'll be your candy shop of infinite deliciousity if you'll be my discotheque of endless rump-shaking.
  11. 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

  12. Abolish TLDs by k98sven · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

    1. Re:Abolish TLDs by pe1chl · · Score: 3, Interesting

      I fully agree. Everyone should be able to register immediately at the top level. Why type "google.com" when "google" is sufficient?

      Hierarchical domain names were once invented to structure things, and to avoid name clashes by subdividing the namespace and allow the same name to be registered in different TLDs.
      But there has not been enough active management of the namespace in the early days (providing TLDs as required by increasing name registration demand), and also the market has shown that it does not understand the mechanism. Instead of registering under an appropriate TLD, it has become commonplace to register in as many places as possible.

      As the entire mechanism has already been defeated, why bother to make minor changes now it is much too late?

    2. Re:Abolish TLDs by 1u3hr · · Score: 3, Insightful
      Isn't it time they get rid of them instead? They don't have any meaning anymore.

      Not quite. I think the CCTLDs are necessary and useful. Also .gov and .gov.cctld. Maybe edu. The rest by the lack of enforcement of any conditions have just become a scam to deceive surfers and fleece companies by forcing them to pay or be squatted by a look-alike or worse. No porn site is going to exclusively use .xxx, no telephone company is exclusively going to use .tel.

    3. Re:Abolish TLDs by Mr+Smidge · · Score: 3, Insightful

      The old .com and .net suffix were put there for a reason, and things could still possibly be put right.

      If there were no TLDs, and you registered "prestige", as your own domain name, then it could easily conflict with any number of other people who have legitimate uses for that name:
      * Companies in your country called "prestige".
      * Anyone in another country wanting the name "prestige" - perhaps it has a different meaning in another country's tongue?
      * Companies in other countries.

      I think there's definitely a need to separate:
      * Domain names in different countries/continents.
      * Commercial domains.
      * Official government bodies of countries/regions.
      * Non-profit organisations, and personal-use domains.

      You see, the original system wasn't so bad after all. I think it is just a lack of regulation when registering for domains that has ruined things. And everybody's guilty - I mean, look at me: I own a .net domain name and I'm not an ISP.

      However, I don't think there's any easy way to kick things back into shape now. But if it had been done properly to begin with, things would be ok.

      If I had my way, the only top-level domains would be .int (international), .eu/.asia/.. (continents), and country codes. No top-level .com or .org addresses. Also, the US isn't special - why should .gov, .edu etc. represent US institutions?

      Take a look at these:
      prestige.co.us - clearly a company called 'prestige' in the US.
      foobar.edu.fr - The 'foobar' educational facility in France.
      trade.gov.tv - The trade department of the Tuvalu government (a bit random, but you see my point).

      I really do think that these extra TLDs detract from the point of it all. Telcoms are just companies; they don't need their own TLD. I was never even fully convinced about the need for a .net TLD either.

      Is there any hope of enforcing a bit more regulation to get things into a sensible state?

  13. Norman, are you there?! by DJ+Wipeout · · Score: 2, Funny

    bates.mo.tel.

  14. .pad is what we need. by MikeFM · · Score: 2, Interesting

    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.

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    1. Re:.pad is what we need. by RzUpAnmsCwrds · · Score: 2, Interesting

      "I imagine it being something like tinyurl for browsing from phones."

      It's already happening. I operate a TinyURL-equivilent-website, http://shortify.com/, and I just registered the numerical equivilent of that URL (http://74678439.com/). As soon as the DNS comes up, you'll be able to use the service from your web-enabled mobile phone. The website is basic HTML/CSS (no tables, no images), so it should have no problem rendering in most phone browsers.

      Note also that, unlike TinyURL, Shortify uses 100% numbers for shortened URLs, so they are more phone friendly. And the homepage is only 1583 bytes, almost 1/2 the size of Google (and about 8 times smaller if you include Google's logo).

      Give it a spin.

    2. Re:.pad is what we need. by RzUpAnmsCwrds · · Score: 2, Interesting

      "Also, you SHOULD NOT server XHTML-1.1 as text/html."

      Note that the W3 specifies "SHOULD NOT", with the exception of maintaining compaibility with existing user-agents. Indeed, this is exactly what Shortify does - if your user-agent specifies that it accepts application/xhtml+xml, Shortify will serve it. If not, Shortify serves text/html for compatibility purposes.

      Also note that I never claimed to have valid XHTML/CSS. Of course, the website *does* have valid XHTML (1.1, none the less), and now it *does* have valid CSS, and it is table free, so you don't have a lot of complaints.

      Hell, even the W3's homepage isn't XHTML 1.1.

  15. 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.

  16. Political statement in what it does NOT do by hta · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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.
    Other .tel proposals have suggested exactly that, and this has had ITU in a tizzy.
    By registering this utterly useless .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.
    I'm neither surprised nor unhappy. .tel as described is utterly useless, but the other proposed usages of .tel had a potential to cause damage in addition to being useless.

  17. When are we gonna get... by exley · · Score: 2, Funny

    ... a .fart toplevel domain? Because I really want to register clownpenis.fart -- the last name available on the internet.

  18. 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.

  19. Re:Why the hierarchy? by seti · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The whole point of the TLD system is to have distributed authorities for various branches in the tree. The system you suggest would require exactly one authority to manage everything (including dns updates).

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  20. 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?

  21. Well, huzzah.... by Mac+Degger · · Score: 2, Insightful

    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]?

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  22. Pimps and Hotel Owners... by AxsDeny · · Score: 2, Funny

    ... it works for either:

    cheap-ho.tel

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  23. Baseball Legend by jeepliberty · · Score: 3, Funny

    For the old time baseball fans: mickey.man.tel. The site admin is Babe Root.

  24. How to register? by ari_j · · Score: 2, Interesting

    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?

  25. Not even...? by uberdave · · Score: 2, Funny

    Not even vacuum cleaner companies?

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