New .tel TLD Now In Use 175
rockwood reports that the
.tel top level domain has been deployed, "in a first attempt at pushing the recently approved .tel... The top-level domain .tel was approved by ICANN as a sponsored TLD launching on Wednesday, December 3, 2008 to trademark owners of national effect and on February 3, 2009 to anyone who wishes to apply. Its main purpose is as a single management and publishing point for 'internet communication' services, providing a global contacts directory service by housing all types of contact information directly in the DNS."
Wikipedia entry (Score:2, Informative)
Am I the only one who thinks the Wikipedia entry - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.tel - reads like a Telnic (sponsor of the TLD) press release, complete with obligatory positive quotes?
Industry experts were positive to the demonstrations, with comments in blogs including author of Net Attitude[5] and founder member of the W3C John R. Patrick stated "I think this will be a big deal."
Re:Enum (Score:3, Informative)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENUM [wikipedia.org]
-tel present in slavic words. (Score:2, Informative)
Many Bulgarian (and maybe other slavic) words end with -tel. The proto-slavic suffix -tel means "doer of the action", similarly to the -er in English.
However, IANAP(hilologist) :)
Re:www.marines.com (Score:1, Informative)
Not at all. DoD regulations pretty much state that .mil domains are supposed to be used only on DoD networks/systems (i.e. NIPRNET). If a DoD entity wants to host content on a commercial service provider, they should use a .com domain. Though in reality this isn't always consistent.
.tel pricing (Score:3, Informative)
from TelNic: "Registry will charge a USD$275 fee for an initial mandatory three (3) year term for each Domain Name registered as a consequence of any Landrush registration."
Now, if you wait until Open Registration, then you only pay $8 per year.