Telnic Wants to Release .Tel IDNs
Thursday, December 10th, 2009
.Tel registry asks ICANN to let it register IDNs.
.Tel registry Telnic has sent a letter to ICANN CEO Rod Beckstrom requesting permission to issue internationalized domain names (IDNs). The letter (pdf) from Telnic CEO Khashayar Mahdavi requests ICANN authorization to release domains that contain hyphens in the third and fourth positions from the pool of reserved domains in the .tel registry agreement. This would enable IDNs.
In his letter, Mahdavi writes that Telnic will follow the “Guidelines for the lmplementation of the lnternationalized Domain Names” as published on the ICANN web site.
.Mobi recently released Chinese IDNs, resulting in a quick growth of the registration base by 100,000 domains, or about 10%.
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Telnic Wants to Release .Tel IDNs – http://tinyurl.com/yls6v74
Take this bastardized TLD to the next level by repeating the Ben.tel bait in other languages!
Can we just start from scratch and have a do-over?
Let’s just have .com, .net and .org and shut the rest down
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Boy,
The .tel hater trolls are at it again!
Why do you people even care?
Missed out, eh?
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@Andrew
Why were the comments to the last post removed?
no ms domainer i didnt miss out. i wasted 300 on this tld.
You guys actually invested in .tel?
You actually think you’re going to make a profit.
lol @ you
Raj – I meant to turn off comments on that post when I set it up. I’d like all correspondence about the domains to be via email.
Excellent news. Should also mention that yesterday eNom (second biggest registrar) announced .tel availability.
The rate of growth in the zone is increasing. Domainers hate it, but everybody else loves it.
Andrew — seems like you are not open to scrutiny or criticism, you just deleted another comment.
Raj – although you do not need to say who you are when you post a comment here, you are required to use a valid email.
.tel is still very new and because it has a different purpose (that of communications) it will take time to build as twitter did in first couple years (relatively unknown). I have as much faith in .tel becoming big as I do in silver bullion skyrocketing in value soon. Check out my http://www.bullion.tel to see a .tel in action.
There is no need for a .Tel. This suffix is a joke!!
It was always Telnic’s plan to move forward with IDNs at the end of 2009. Looks like they are keeping to that schedule.
I’m not certain, from a technical standpoint, whether there might still be issues with some IDN character sets.
Out of the next billion people who will be coming online, most of them are in China and South Asia – accessing the Internet from mobile devices. IDNs will be preferred in those areas.
Because they don’t require external hosting, .tel domains will be more economical compared to display domains and therefore more appropriate in many IDN markets.
Yes, .tel is not good for speculators. Could that be a good thing?
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Interesting dot tel challenge story -
http://www.prweb.com/releases/Freeonlineaddressbook/challengestelnicdottels/prweb3459084.htm
Almost a year after its launch, I believe that the .Tel has passed into history like so many others, I will personally get rid of most of them .. the other hand he remains .. you never know!
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