.Tel sponsor Telnic says ICANN has approved the new TLD.
On the surface this is one of the worst new domain names to be approved — let alone suggested. As I wrote last month:
This idea makes sense for one group only: the registry that will make money selling the domains (oh yeah, and the registars getting in on the action). Why would we want something like .tel? You can do the same thing with .name or .com. The .tel extension doesn’t even enable the goal of the domain — to make it easy to find people’s contact information.
There are plenty of services that allow people to keep their contact info updated. The people that would get a .tel domain are the same ones that use other services to allow people to contact them.
In the 2006 Domain Name Wire Survey I found that most domainers don’t want new domains introduced.
There is one domain on the horizon that makes sense: .mobi. I’ll give my reasons in a later post…
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