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New .tel TLD Now In Use
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."
http://in.tel/
Is anybody else shrugging their shoulders and asking the same question of: What the hell is the point in wasting DNS space for such a half-assed crap idea?
This space is not for rent.
sounds like .mobi. And probably as irrelevant.
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
Brilliantly "I CANN but I shouldn't" manages to win the dumbest, stupidest, most pointless idea of the whole sodding year.
I mean just having a "standard" of I don't know VCF and using MIMEtypes from a web page would give you the ability to do this sort of connectivity address book stuff within the existing infrastructure. Now the idea is that everyone should register an equivalent .tel (errrr how do they do that when there are different companies at the .com, .net, .org, .co.uk, .fr etc addresses).
Quite astonishingly badly stupid and I applaud their genius by making sure it will be in everyone's mind as the "worst idea of 2008" is compiled. The only person who might be happy about this is the 2000-2007 undisputed winning partnership of Bush/Cheney for their "Threatening China", "What Torture?" "What WMD?" "Mission Accomplished", "What problems in Iraq?" and many other household favourites.
As my mother said "Just because 'you can' doesn't mean 'you should'". I propose a name change to ICANN to "Please god no we can't be trusted with this responsibility"
An Eye for an Eye will make the whole world blind - Gandhi
all these one-roof TLDs would maybe have been worth something if they were there from the beginning. But everyone wants a .com because everything on the interwebz is a www.*.com or .org for organizations as if it lent credence to their validity. It's just far too late now and serves little use, and practically no guarantee of homogeneity.
"dontaskdottel"
How is that meant to work? I already use existing domain names for 'Internet communication' services, like email and IM. I can already use DNS to map telephone numbers to these with RFC 2916 or map arbitrary domains to them with RFC 2915. So, what exactly, is the point of .tel?
I am TheRaven on Soylent News
Uh, didn't this used to be called Enum? (e164.arpa.)?
I could be wrong, but this sounds very similar to the purpose of the .net TLD! Why so many new useless TLDs?
As if we don't have enough TLD's already...
.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???
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
I can understand something like the .XXX tld, for the purpose of openly idenfitying what a site is (and ease in blocking porn sites in school LAN's and such), but otherwise, creating this raft of tld's is a really silly idea. We've just now gotten to the point where most users don't think everything ends in "dot com". The proposed system of hyper-classification won't be a boon to anyone but domain squatters and con artists. And for the non-technical public, it'll be just plain confusing.
Even as quickly as it was thrown together, the concepts of the internet were relatively simple, commonsense, and workable, if not always elegant. We should keep it that way with a minimum of monkeying around. No more .aero's, or .biz's, or .tel's.
Life is hard, and the world is cruel
ICANNhas.cheezburger?
After logging in slashdot still does not take you back to the page you were on. It's been that way for 20 years.
I think we should register the .WTF TLD and use it as a "parody TLD for anyone who wants to mock a trademark"
#fuckbeta #iamslashdot #dicemustdie
As if we don't have enough TLD's already
Can you get your last name.com or .anything? I snagged mcgrew.info when .info frst came ou, but let it lapse. I doubt seriously I could get it back.
IMO we have no where near enough TLDs.
Free Martian Whores!
Am I the only one who thinks the Wikipedia entry - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.tel - reads like a Telnic (sponsor of the TLD) press release, complete with obligatory positive quotes?
Industry experts were positive to the demonstrations, with comments in blogs including author of Net Attitude[5] and founder member of the W3C John R. Patrick stated "I think this will be a big deal."
1. Come up with new TLD
2. Watch corporations flock to register theirname.tel because they can't afford for squatters to get there first
3. ??
4. Profit!
Repeat every time you feel the need for a new revenue stream.
Nice work if you can get it.
You misunderstand what I mean. If you have a TLD for .food and another tld for .aero, mcdonald.food could take you to McBurgers, while mcdonald.aero would take you to McDonald Aircraft.
mcgrew.nerd might take you to me, while mcgrew.funny would take you to the comedian with my name. I'm not suggesting that "mcgrew" be a TLD, just that there aren't enough TLDs to go around. I don't think five is a nearly big anough group.
Yet my lastname.com is not available
That's because the squatters took every goddamned name on earth back in the nineties.
Free Martian Whores!
Many Bulgarian (and maybe other slavic) words end with -tel. The proto-slavic suffix -tel means "doer of the action", similarly to the -er in English.
However, IANAP(hilologist) :)
.name has been active since 2001, for the very same purpose. It's not very popular.
from TelNic: "Registry will charge a USD$275 fee for an initial mandatory three (3) year term for each Domain Name registered as a consequence of any Landrush registration."
Now, if you wait until Open Registration, then you only pay $8 per year.