Following the development of .tel there have been som quite "positive" developments lately
DomainsBot namespinner will start suggesting available .tels
This is quite big news since:
Domains bot is licensed by the majority of the world's best-known Internet domain name retailers including GoDaddy, Tucows and Register.com.
Daniel Ruzzini Mejia, Co-Founder & CSO, DomainsBot. "The .tel domain is now a significant part of being found on the internet, as it helps potential customers find what they're looking for cheaply and quickly, regardless of the device or application that the person looking for the content is using; we wanted to make it possible for our customers to participate in this next wave of innovation for the Internet."
DomainsBot Helps Business, Professionals and End-Users Easily Find a new .tel Name | TradingMarkets.com
.Tel is cooperating with a company focused on selling .tels in china.
Whats interesting is that one of the persons behind this company appears to have been nothing less than a key person at CNNIC?
รฆยลฝรฅโฆโฐรงลกโ/Li Guanghao/Howard
LI Guang Hao is currently Chief Operation Officer in TelChina.
Prior to this newly started enterprise, he was the Director of International Affairs at China Internet Network Information Center. At that position, he was one of the leading person of the ".China" IDN ccTLD application project. He was the application representative for China's IDN ccTLD. See
ICANN | IDN ccTLD Fast Track String Evaluation Completion Prior to those positions, he was the deputy director of General Administrative Office and head of the international affairs at CNNIC. He had been working on policy research and development since joint CNNIC. He had an in depth involvement in domain name registry operation at both policy side and business side. He actively participated in international forums like ICANN, ISOC, IGF, APTLD and etc. In these forums, he is one of the major drivers of IDN development. He is currently the board member of DotAsia and AC of ISOC. Aside from his international presence, he also has rich knowledge in Chinaโs domestic Internet community. He has been taken the roles of: 1. Jury member of the first China WebBlog Contest sponsored by Peopleโs Daily; 2. Member of expert panel for ICP Recording System Phase II; 3. Director of ISCโs Blog Study WG secretariat and drafter of ISC Webblog Services Code. Guang Hao Li holds a master degree in e-commerce from Utah State University in USA.
Another politician grabs a dot tel domain name to use as his single point of entry:
George Smitherman for Mayor
Since politicians use and advertize their .tel they reach out to a bigger mass than most people do.