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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."
"dontaskdottel"
Its main purpose is as a single management and publishing point for 'internet communication' services ...
And right from the get-go it's main purpose is overshadowed by some every Telnic employee's desire to be THE Henry on the .tel TLD. That must be awfully helpful to us in our need for 'internet communication' services.
More garbage for the tubes, I guess.
What the hell is the point in wasting DNS space
Are we really concerned about "DNS space?" I guess I'm a bit of an idiot when it comes to why we need to be concerned about 'space' on DNS names ... perhaps you mean IP address space? And if so, people are basically flushing those down the toilet by giving every device one (including their toilet).
My work here is dung.
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
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
It doesn't have to be a proper spelling. hoe.tel!
We're all hypocrites. We all have hidden parts, it's the contrast between them that make us more a hypocrite than others
Perhaps by DNS space he means the fact that organizations who want to register their website under all the TLD's in order to protect their name will have yet another TLD. As the number of domains that point to the same IP address increases, so does the number of pointless DNS requests.
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he got a whole TLD to himself? awesome...
hoe.tel!
AKA craigslist.org/services/erotic