Comments on: .tel domain launch, the next mobile story

By: Olaf

Olaf — Tue, 05 May 2009 20:23:35 +0000

@Robert,
The send me this road map:
http://telnic.org/community-roadmap.html

@nick,
success while domain shopping

By: nick

nick — Sun, 03 May 2009 22:22:00 +0000

i thought .mobi was for mobile devices. i have a few mobile sites. im gonna have to get the .tel s before someone buys them up

By: Robert Kent

Robert Kent — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 08:08:10 +0000

If contact info is contained in the DNS how secure would this be?

Also I agree with #3 it would be nice to see (in this day and age) this sort of innovation accompanied with the likes of social networking or personalised web space. In fact, as an idea I would reccomend a website to be generated on the purchase of a new phone i.e New Phone > Free .tel domain > personalizable(?).

By: Olaf

Olaf — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 10:16:18 +0000

Hi Jeff,

they need to do a lot of stuff of course, at the moment to provide only access to a few protocolls.

If you check Telfriends.org you will see that they try to make more possible using social media…

By: Canadian small business web designer

Canadian small business web designer — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 10:10:47 +0000

I’m not sure I like this domain. It’s nice that they’ve created a place where you are guaranteed mobile accessibility, but I think I’d rather develop for mobile on a different TLD. You can’t add features, you can’t distinguish yourself, and you can’t create the unique presence that is required on the net. This is basically just a phonebook – but more difficult to navigate. Do they have a searchable index?

By: Joker.com

Joker.com — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 14:00:49 +0000

Just found this summary on the joker.com website:

All existing Top Level Domains use the DNS in this traditional way. However, the .tel does not communicate with web content or email — it enables communication with people. It therefore requires an approach to storing contact information directly in the DNS for which Address records are inappropriate, since an Address record cannot identify a phone number or a VoIP service address, such as a Skype or Yahoo! Messenger.

The .tel will allow contact information to be stored directly in the DNS so that when a device performs a query for a .tel domain (i.e., AdamSmith.tel), the DNS will not respond with an Address record, rather it will return the contact information directly to the device, which enables the click-to-communicate functionality.

By: Olaf

Olaf — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 19:05:16 +0000

Hey Deepak,

.tel sites are for mobile devices, just a “new” kind of ID for people or companies. We will see if this become some new standard… if you like to help with that register your own .tel domain

By: Deepak

Deepak — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 09:46:25 +0000

nice one … but what is the benefits of that if one can’t create own custom website?