Just wanted to comment on this point specifically, since it is factually incorrect.
The brilliance behind .tel is that contact information gets stored directly in the
DNS. So when client applications wish to retrieve data, they don't have to go all the way over the web to get it, but instead just pull it from their local DNS resolver. This has huge implications for users on mobile networks in particular, since they are inherently latent. It's all about tactile responsiveness - absolutely critical for browsing through directory tree structures.
In terms of the web we're talking about something like a second (or several), but for .tel we're on the millisecond scale. It may not seem like it, but it's a huge difference.
Then there is the issue of availability - what if your web server gets bogged down by requests, or drops offline completely? We don't have to worry about that with .tel - it sits atop the most distributed and balanced network in the world.
One of my favourite .tel
quotes is, "Its as if we’re at the stage where we’re learning that to perform certain important acts the signal doesn’t have to go all the way to the brain and back but can operate by way of the much faster reflexes that only touch the spinal cord."
Think of DNS like the central nervous system in your body, and a superior alien being has attached a .tel implant to your spinal cord that gives you super internet powers: you are
Superbook Man der derr der derrrrr.
So anyway just remember, .tel is not the web. The internet is more than the web, and it is connectedness that matters.
