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Is It Time For .tel?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the how-to-differentiate dept.

Vitaly Friedman writes "ICANN, the body responsible for creating top-level domains, is considering a new one. Conceived as a way to easily manage contact information in an age where many people have numerous contact numbers, the proposed .tel TLD would allow individuals and companies to keep all of their contact information in an easily accessible location. Companies would get companyname.tel while individuals would be able to register firstnamelastname.tel." This idea has been kicked around for quite a while; one of the question is the whole name-space collision issue. For instance, there's me and then there's other me. Lemme tell how strange it is getting fan mail for country music stars.

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  1. Re:Unforseen problems by b0wl0fud0n · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Actually the most common name would be James Smith. There are 4,840,833 with the first name James and about 2,501,922 people with the last name Smith. The most common female name would be Mary Smith since there are roughly 3,991,060 Mary's. Most common last names: http://names.mongabay.com/most_common_surnames.htm Most common male first names: http://names.mongabay.com/male_names.htm Most common female first names: http://names.mongabay.com/female_names.htm

  2. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 0, Offtopic

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  3. Re:I've already pointed out why this won't work by Kangburra · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    I already pointed out why this won't work.

    You mean this is a dupe? Surely not.
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    Common sense is not so common
  4. Re:eliminate top-level domains ? by jeaton · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Indeed, country level TLDs are very strictly enforced. Espcially ones like Christmas Island and Tobago/

    Oh, wait. Country TLD's are abused just like any other TLD.