New .tel TLD Now In Use

Posted by timothy on Wednesday December 3, 2008 @06:12AM 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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.wtf tld lol by girlintraining · 2008-12-03 06:34 · 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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Re:I want royalties by Chabil+Ha' · 2008-12-03 06:42 · Score: 5, Funny

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

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Re:.mobi? by Anonymous Coward · 2008-12-03 07:02 · Score: 5, Funny

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