.tel me something new!

[MicroGuy]

Just got an email from Domain Monster touting the next hot TLD. This extension is just what the doctor ordered. Not.

".tel uniquely uses the DNS system to store universally accessible contact data. It allows you to store, update and publish contact information (phone numbers, web links, addresses, keywords) directly on the internet, anywhere, anytime. Simple, fast and accessible from any device, .tel provides a new internet standard for you to take full control over how and where people reach you or your business."

".tel really is a win-win launch! We won’t take more than 1 Pre-Order for each domain name at each stage of launch, so if you’ve pre-ordered pizza.tel, yours will be the ONLY application we submit to the registry, and it’ll get there within seconds of launch. Furthermore, we’re so confident of success we won’t take any payment until your order has been successfully processed and your .tel domain is live."

Boy how I miss the good ole' days when you registered a .com and got a .net or .org if the .com was taken.

Guess the clock is ticking on this aging domainer. :santa:

 

[Domainace]

I got the same email. Well, this is a different kind of TDL, that's for sure.

I took a look at the site: telnic.org/business-movie.html

So, without even a webpage, .tel uses the DNS to display your contact info on the web - and provides application so that a click is all you need to initiate contact, whether by Skype, mobile phone, fax, whatever.

Advantages? Not sure. Any company already will have their own website, and can easily create a contact page with all these features. The only advantage I see right away is that Joe Shmoe who doesn't want to bother with a website, but wants to be easily reachable, will find this useful.

Am I missing something?

 

[Terrains]

Not sure, but I just checked the registrar and most of the key names are already taken for general registration. I am fairly new to domaining can someone explain sunrise/land rush periods? If I register for general does someone who used land rush get precedent over me? What about if more than 1 person uses land rush or more than 1 person uses general.

 

[pixelbypixel]

Not really read up on them, but I am assuming the .tel sites wont be up for full modification? As in could we just turn them into any standard website, or is it purely for contact details?

I got the email too

 

[DotMeDomains]

I got my vip.tel!

3 days ago, I received my vip.tel trial. Check it out ->jamarie.vip.tel

 

[Terrains]

Saw it on MarketWatch.com

 

[backpackets]

3 days ago, I received my vip.tel trial. Check it out ->jamarie.vip.tel

thats great.congratulations.

 

[ssamriga]

too bad landrush costs 119eur...

 

[Terrains]

I may be mistaken but this seems like a great opportunity.

1) No charge on domainmonster.com unless your registration is a success.
2) No auction at any stage of registration, everything is first-come first-serve.

DomainMonster.com Landrush - "Anyone seriously looking for a .tel domain needs to be registering at this stage. There are no auctions or premium domains so it's first-come-first-served for any domain not registered during Sunrise."

Am I missing something?

 

[Terrains]

Well, just confirmed with domainmonster.com that there is indeed no auction at any point of registration. Whoever is the first to submit gets the domain name. Here are a few good reads:

Telnic FAQs

CNET.com

www.DCSavvy.com

Seems promising, 100 registrars already signed up to offer .TEL registration. Already developing add-ons for the RIMM's Blackberry and Apple's iPhone to integrate.

What do you guys think?

 

[pixelbypixel]

Waste of money. Why buy a whole domain for purely contact details?
You cannot do much with it, only worth while if your going top fill the page with premium rate numbers, of which will be little benfit for yourself apart from reselling. You cant make money off them, you cant put anything you like on it. It is just a contact page which I think anyone could buy a .com and make it look like whatever they want instead.

 

[labrocca]

I think I will get labrocca.tel. It could be useful especially for relative subdomains. jesse.labrocca.tel looks kinda cool. And every LaBrocca in USA is related to me.

 

[Terrains]

Just got my VIP account from Justin at Telnic. Responded literally within 5 minutes of my request with a sign-up link. Took about 14 seconds to make the "site".

victor.vip.tel

I'm still skeptical on .TEL but beginning to lead towards bullish. Think it has potential, seems to be well received by registrars and the press.

http://telnic.org/media-resources.html

Fortune and CNN called it the "google of online phone books"

 

[j1300]

is there no way of using a .tel name as if it were a normal domain extension? (i.e. put a normal site on it)

 

[ofclean]

is there no way of using a .tel name as if it were a normal domain extension? (i.e. put a normal site on it)

Correct.

 

[sneaky]

looks like ricklatona.com blogged about it

 

[j1300]

Correct.

thats the stupidest thing Ive ever heard, no-ones going to use them (apart from old farts that think "the younger generation will love this") whats wrong with going on a companies website and clicking on "contact"

I had a huge list of .tels I was interested in, now I may not even Buy one.

its just another push to make unessasary domain extensions for cash!

 

[MicroGuy]

Yes. It's pretty dumb considering that this new registry appears to be simply disabling the "A" records, etc. while using other DNS records available but not normally utilized with standard domains.

It's like buying a domain with the website and email DNS resolution removed.

 

[fuzzlepop]

A data item to be published as part of a .tel domain. Allowed record types are NAPTR, TXT, LOC (location), MX (mail exchange), ZS (zone status), and SRV (server location).
NAPTR (Naming Authority Pointer) records are powerful resource records which allow for the provisioning of additional information in a very flexible way. For more details on NAPTRs, please refer to the whitepaper "NAPTRs in .tel".

 

[VURG]

too bad landrush costs 119eur...

It may get cheaper. Landrush isn't until Feb.