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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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.