Launching this Wednesday will be the .tel domain ending sponsored by telnic. The domain is a top level domain, the intended use for this ending is for telecommunication companys and will be use mostly via dns much like the .mobi domain name. Although alike the .mobi name you can have a HTML frontend. .tel enables to create a communication portal online to manage in real time the way that clients can communicate with you.

As specified by telnic:

Unified contact directory services as text-based alternative to fragmented communications solutions

Registered names will be policed to weed out abusive registrations or registrants not in proper community

Direct second-level registrations will be allowed; digits will be restricted to avoid conflict with phone numbers

The domain has just entered its “sunrise” procedure. This month (November) mostly overlooked by the press the domain vip.tel was launched as a trial by telnic. See it here

Costs and time plan:

Sunrise – from 3rd December 2008
Only trademark holders national, international or community registered before the 23rd May 2008 can benefit from the .tel corresponding to their trademark.

• The registration time is a minimum of 3 years.
• Fee to verify your mark: £239.99 +VAT
• Annual price in sunrise: £6.99 +VAT

Landrush – from 3rd February 2009
Open to everyone, only domains that were not registered during the sunrise period will be able to be registered.

• The registration time is a minimum of 3 years.
• Annual price in landrush: £79.99 +VAT

Global – from 24th March 2009
Open to everyone

• The minimum duration of registration is 1 year.
• Annual price in global opening: £6.99 +VAT

You can pre-order your .tel domain here (Link) and find out more from the telnic website (Link)

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