.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.

Comments

Dibs!

[phantom_programmer]

I want dontaskdont.tel.

Re:Dibs!

[cd_serek]

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

what's wrong with tel://

[OsirisX11]

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.

notellmo.tel?

[jemfinch]

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

Jeremy

Abolish TLDs

[k98sven]

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.

Re:price according to real cost: any chance ?

[Jason1729]

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.

Political statement in what it does NOT do

[hta]

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.

Re:Enough suggestions al'eady!

[cujo_1111]

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