.tel Coming Soon 201
GeorgeK writes "ICANN hasn't posted it on their website yet, but according to one of their board members, the .tel top-level domain was approved." notellmo.tel is going to be one of the first domains sold.
Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. -- Ambrose Bierce
what's wrong with tel:// (Score:5, Interesting)
Why is the sponsor of
This seems highly undemocratic and arbitrarily in favor of a corporation.
Bitches.
.pad is what we need. (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Abolish TLDs (Score:4, Interesting)
Hierarchical domain names were once invented to structure things, and to avoid name clashes by subdividing the namespace and allow the same name to be registered in different TLDs.
But there has not been enough active management of the namespace in the early days (providing TLDs as required by increasing name registration demand), and also the market has shown that it does not understand the mechanism. Instead of registering under an appropriate TLD, it has become commonplace to register in as many places as possible.
As the entire mechanism has already been defeated, why bother to make minor changes now it is much too late?
Political statement in what it does NOT do (Score:5, Interesting)
Other
By registering this utterly useless
I'm neither surprised nor unhappy.
Re:.pad is what we need. (Score:3, Interesting)
It's already happening. I operate a TinyURL-equivilent-website, http://shortify.com/ [shortify.com], and I just registered the numerical equivilent of that URL (http://74678439.com/ [74678439.com]). As soon as the DNS comes up, you'll be able to use the service from your web-enabled mobile phone. The website is basic HTML/CSS (no tables, no images), so it should have no problem rendering in most phone browsers.
Note also that, unlike TinyURL, Shortify uses 100% numbers for shortened URLs, so they are more phone friendly. And the homepage is only 1583 bytes, almost 1/2 the size of Google (and about 8 times smaller if you include Google's logo).
Give it a spin.
Re:.pad is what we need. (Score:3, Interesting)
Note that the W3 specifies "SHOULD NOT", with the exception of maintaining compaibility with existing user-agents. Indeed, this is exactly what Shortify does - if your user-agent specifies that it accepts application/xhtml+xml, Shortify will serve it. If not, Shortify serves text/html for compatibility purposes.
Also note that I never claimed to have valid XHTML/CSS. Of course, the website *does* have valid XHTML (1.1, none the less), and now it *does* have valid CSS, and it is table free, so you don't have a lot of complaints.
Hell, even the W3's homepage isn't XHTML 1.1.
How to register? (Score:3, Interesting)