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New .tel TLD Now In Use

Posted by timothy on from the pay-at-the-tel-booth dept.

rockwood reports that the .tel top level domain has been deployed, "in a first attempt at pushing the recently approved .tel... The top-level domain .tel was approved by ICANN as a sponsored TLD launching on Wednesday, December 3, 2008 to trademark owners of national effect and on February 3, 2009 to anyone who wishes to apply. Its main purpose is as a single management and publishing point for 'internet communication' services, providing a global contacts directory service by housing all types of contact information directly in the DNS."

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  1. I want royalties by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    http://in.tel/

    1. Re:I want royalties by Chabil+Ha' · · Score: 5, Funny

      It doesn't have to be a proper spelling. hoe.tel!

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    2. Re:I want royalties by Quiet_Desperation · · Score: 4, Funny

      hoe.tel!

      AKA craigslist.org/services/erotic

  2. wish i could tag by theilliterate · · Score: 4, Funny

    "dontaskdottel"

  3. YAY! Just what we needed! by Farmer+Pete · · Score: 4, Funny

    As if we don't have enough TLD's already...

    I think the part that gets me the most angry is, have you ever tried to tell someone your email address over the phone when it doesn't end in com/org/edu? My company was apparently late to market with their webpage, so we have a 20 character dot com address and an incredibly short .biz address. I used to choose the .biz because I thought it would be simple for people to understand. I'm very careful to enunciate my letters, but these people are clueless. No matter how much I tell them B as in Bravo, I as in Indiana, Z as in Zebra, they end up with DIC...Seriously, if there even was a .dic TLD, would you want to be there???

  4. loldomains by w0mprat · · Score: 4, Funny

    ICANNhas.cheezburger?

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  5. .wtf tld lol by girlintraining · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think we should register the .WTF TLD and use it as a "parody TLD for anyone who wants to mock a trademark"

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  6. Re:.mobi? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    he got a whole TLD to himself? awesome...

  7. Re:Huh? by Lumpy · · Score: 2, Funny

    MY toilet doesnt need an IP address. NAT is fine...

    but it does twitter...

    11:43 @lumpytoilet -- Dog drinks from bowl
    12:14 @lumpytoilet -- seat put down
    12:28 @lumpytoilet -- FLushed
    12:29 @lumpytoilet -- FLushed
    12:30 @lumpytoilet -- FLushed
    12:31 @lumpytoilet -- FLushed
    12:32 @lumpytoilet -- Plunger RFID detected
    12:33 @lumpytoilet -- Water on floor detected

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  8. I want /. tld by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    ... so I can confuse newbies even more

    Eich tee tee pee, colon slash slash slashdot dot slash dot...

  9. Re:Huh? by dintech · · Score: 2, Funny

    And about the same level of intelligence as other twitter users.