Comments on: What's your dot tel?

What's your dot tel?

airguitar — Wed, 17 May 2006 14:26:43 -0800

The days of needing to remember several telephone numbers, numerous VOIP or instant message identities and other points of contact for our social and professional networks are over.

By: delmoi

delmoi — Wed, 17 May 2006 14:37:22 -0800

why on earth is a new tld needed for this purpose? Why not any domain name? This makes no sense. Either then application will accept a domain name, or they will not.

By: SweetJesus

SweetJesus — Wed, 17 May 2006 14:37:59 -0800

Neeeeeeeeeeeat!

By: Mwongozi

Mwongozi — Wed, 17 May 2006 14:39:19 -0800

car.tel

By: delmoi

delmoi — Wed, 17 May 2006 14:42:10 -0800

Oh well, at least this will provide a way for people to do new domain hacks, etc.

By: airguitar

airguitar — Wed, 17 May 2006 14:45:04 -0800

http://www.onelook.com/?w=*tel&ls=a

By: dhartung

dhartung — Wed, 17 May 2006 14:51:38 -0800

why on earth is a new tld needed for this purpose? Why not any domain name? Technically, this domain is intended for VOIP &c. providers, e.g. it isn't so much that skype.com also needs skype.tel, as that Skype customers will be able to get VOIP "phone numbers" in the .tel namespace. In other words, you'll be able to give a DNS address to your internet phone. Politically, this is because ICANN is basically only expanding the TLD namespace when they have a proposal they like from a worthy entity who they believe will manage it properly. ICANN seems to like the purpose-oriented TLD approach.

By: emelenjr

emelenjr — Wed, 17 May 2006 14:51:41 -0800

I wonder if ho.tel will be snatched (sorry) up by an escort service before any reputable hotel can claim it.

By: SweetJesus

SweetJesus — Wed, 17 May 2006 14:55:12 -0800

why on earth is a new tld needed for this purpose? It's attempting to replace any internet-enabled communication device's phone number with a .tel domain. It's trying to do for phone numbers what the TDL did for IP addresses.

By: MikeKD

MikeKD — Wed, 17 May 2006 15:14:33 -0800

LONDON, May 15 /PRNewswire/ -- ICANN (The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) unanimously It's a damn press release.

By: IronLizard

IronLizard — Wed, 17 May 2006 15:23:35 -0800

This post is spam.

By: Faint of Butt

Faint of Butt — Wed, 17 May 2006 15:25:27 -0800

www.ho.tel www.mo.tel www.in.tel www.coin.tel/pro/ This is fun!

By: monju_bosatsu

monju_bosatsu — Wed, 17 May 2006 15:44:03 -0800

Finally, I can start my long awaited cheese blog, neufchâ.tel.

By: blue_beetle

blue_beetle — Wed, 17 May 2006 15:52:39 -0800

why.do.we.need.more.do.main.nam.es?

By: delmoi

delmoi — Wed, 17 May 2006 16:06:20 -0800

Technically, this domain is intended for VOIP &c. providers, e.g. it isn't so much that skype.com also needs skype.tel, as that Skype customers will be able to get VOIP "phone numbers" in the .tel namespace. In other words, you'll be able to give a DNS address to your internet phone. Which I can't do now because...

By: airguitar

airguitar — Wed, 17 May 2006 16:09:14 -0800

Which I can't do now because... I didn't get it either, I guess next year if you have a Moto Q and you punch in delmoi.tel you're going to get the voicemail box on your VOIP wifi phone.

By: Podnosh

Podnosh — Wed, 17 May 2006 16:18:20 -0800

Sounds like the same idea as dialling a company name on a phone pad.

By: me & my monkey

me & my monkey — Wed, 17 May 2006 18:26:43 -0800

Which I can't do now because... ... no one registrar controls a single top-level commercial domain? Presumably, Telnic will use other resource records for identifying phones, etc.

By: dhartung

dhartung — Wed, 17 May 2006 18:40:52 -0800

faq The point seems to be that if you have a .tel-enabled device, and connect to a .tel domain, either the server will respond with the appropriate service for your device, or offer you a menu based on the options you have available (instant messaging, bluetooth mobile, Netscape 1.0, etc.). Call this guarded interest. Whether it proves useful will depend on ISV adoption. Really, there's no magic to DNS, it just maps names to numbers. Back in the very early days of the web, you often had to direct your web browser at a particular port (e.g. http://www.metafilter.com:80/). It's as if they had set up a TLD named .web where you were automatically pointed at port 80 just by using metafilter.web, that's all. The benefit for corporate customers is fairly obvious -- it simplifies their net-facing architecture. They don't have to have example.com sniff and hand off VOIP traffic, for example. It also potentially vastly simplifies the setup for vendors selling internet telephony devices to the consumer market. Again, caveats. Are the big telcos signed on? We'll see, I guess.

By: Doorstop

Doorstop — Wed, 17 May 2006 19:45:42 -0800

one day closer to getting a barcode stamped on my head. yay.

By: jimfl

jimfl — Thu, 18 May 2006 07:00:40 -0800

dont.ask.dont.tel