LONDON - The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) have given its nod for the creation of .Tel Top Level Domain (TLD). The contract for the domain has been awarded to Telnic Limited.
Khashayar Mahdavi, CEO of Telnic was delighted with the award; "The .Tel domain offers the first genuinely different use of domains since .com was first created. It will provide seamless integration of existing methods of communication with emerging technologies like Voice over IP (VoIP). This places the .Tel domain at the core of the next phase of Internet development," he said.
This means that users can control in real time how they can be reached. This means that users can be contacted over "VoIP-based technologies, email, SMS, conventional fixed-line or wireless telephony." Telnic had applied for the creation of the domain name in October 2000 and its application has now been granted.
"The days of needing to remember several telephone numbers, numerous VoIP or instant message identities and other points of contact for our social and professional networks are over," Mahdavi said. "By leveraging innovative DNS (Domain Name System) technology, the .Tel domain will allow anyone to publish and control, in real time, how they can be reached."
Telnic said that it would shortly release fee applications to integrate the .tel domain name into address books that are commonly used in computers and mobile phones.
