.TEL is launching soon and OpenSRS will be participating fully
There’s a very innovative new generic Top-Level Domain (gTLD) on the way called .TEL. OpenSRS will be participating fully in the launch of .TEL beginning with sunrise pre-orders (more on that in the next few days) and culminating with the official start of general availability on March 24th, 2009.
.TEL is quite different from any other domain extension. All the information for a .TEL domain is stored directly within the Domain Name System (DNS). When a user enters a .TEL domain into their browser, mobile phone or any other Internet device, DNS is queried and rather than returning an IP address that maps a website to the domain name, the DNS entry provides the stored data directly, formatted for whatever device is being used.
In many cases, users can then click on a contact method and immediately initiate a connection (including voice calls, SMS, Skype, email…) to the .TEL domain holder.
I could try to explain the concept and how the back-end data management control panel works, but this video of Justin Hayward, Communications Director, and Henri Asseily, CSO/CTO, both of Telnic Ltd. from the 2008 Demo Conference does a far better job:
A list of 10 reasons companies should get their .TEL domain is available as a PDF download. Also included in this document are the requirements for the various stages of the .TEL launch, from Sunrise to landrush and general availability.
As mentioned above, we’ll have more on the .TEL launch and how it will work for OpenSRS Resellers in the next few days.
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