Ring, Ring - It's .TEL Calling

[renec]

ICANN just announced the addition of .tel to the DNS root zone, making it the 15th top level domain under contract with ICANN on the Internet.

.tel isn't a domain in the traditional sense. It will not be competing with .mobi, which was introduced last year and is all about "making the Internet mobile".

Instead, .tel plans to become a cutting edge, decentralized, globally accessible and privacy-enhanced contact directory.

 

[mulligan]

Just ICANN adding another shitty tld to screw more money out of unsuspecting consumers

 

[EM @MAJ.com]

.ph Philippines registrar selling as phone extension in text capital of the world Manila.
.mobi as mobile domains
now .tel as telephone directory

still additional business for all of us in domain business, just like adding new product in your store. Hopefully in acceptable low price for easy sell.

 

[Theo]

And yet they ICANNed the most useful proposed TLD, .xxx

****ers!

 

[shopperx]

I will register my firstname.tel

 

[Focus]

don't forget .mp which was billed as "mobile phone"

 

[Dale Hubbard]

What a crock. .Tel should have been what .mobi is supposed to be.

 

[DNP]

that's crazy!
1).PH
2).PN - (phone number)
3).MOBI
4).MP
5).TEL
who more?

 

[BiggieBiggie is verified member.]

http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache.../tel-telnic.htm+.tel&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=3&gl=us

 

[Focus]

ok, important question...when can we start registering them..lol

 

[Onward]

ho.tel

Set up your trademarks...

 

[Dimva]

More shitty tld .. shorter then .mobi though

 

[Dale Hubbard]

More shitty tld .. shorter then .mobi though

Quite.

novo.tel
pas.tel
in.tel

:lol:

 

[Onward]

Couple more:

car.tel
chat.tel
hos.tel
man.tel
mo.tel

 

[Poker]

oh the humanity...

 

[Dale Hubbard]

They could have written most of this spiel for .mobi:

http://www.nic.tel/about.html

 

[Ehsan]

ah another shitty one .mobi had some reason but .tel i don't see any thing big coming out of .tel except s**t

 

[PRED]

i won't be bothering

 

[Gerry]

If we pool our resources together, we too can have our own TLD.

My proposal would be...

.WTF

 

[leo]

If we pool our resources together, we too can have our own TLD.

My proposal would be...

.WTF

hahaha .lol