Monday, February 23, 2009

“New .tel Domain Aims to be 'Phonebook for the Net'”

On February 3, 2009 London-based company –Telnic started to sell new domain names .tel. It offers a service to store and manage all of your contact information and keywords directly from domain Name System. So you don’t have to build, host or manage a website. It’s supposed to create a “phonebook for the Net.”
From my point of view it is an interesting solution for those individuals and small companies, who don’t have their own websites, but on the other hand the service is kind of expensive for a middle-class person – currently it costs $375 per 3 years. How many people are willing to pay such amount? Also, the good thing is that you would be able to find contact info about any person in the entire world…but…is this going to be the person that you are looking for? Finally, what about identity theft? Nowadays we are all trying not to reveal our identities to unwanted people. We don’t want spam in our emails, marketing calls, etc. New .tel domain brings many issues that have to be considered…

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