Momentum Grows for .tel in the UK - Reuters

[Acorn Newsbot]

Momentum Grows for .tel in the UK
Reuters
"With the recent interest from individuals in vanity domain names for recognition and branding online, added to the ease of use and low cost, .tel domains ...

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[retired_member13]

You've got to love this - another example of the utter lameness of .tel and the people that run it.

This is a Telnic press release proudly announcing a new BT service so customers can use a .tel domain to "streamline their contact information".

You can find out more about how great .tel is at bt.com/tel. Right.

Not only that, but guess who owns BT.tel?

Why it's Telnic of course, they haven't released the domain to BT.

 

[rob]

You've got to love this - another example of the utter lameness of .tel and the people that run it.

This is a Telnic press release proudly announcing a new BT service so customers can use a .tel domain to "streamline their contact information".

You can find out more about how great .tel is at bt.com/tel. Right.

Not only that, but guess who owns BT.tel?

Why it's Telnic of course, they haven't released the domain to BT.

^ this with bells on

.Tel is .crap

 

[justinhayward]

Just a quick point of clarification - Telnic doesn't own bt.tel, ICANN does. ICANN has restricted the sale of .tel domains to three characters only at this time.

Thanks,

Justin Hayward
Telnic Limited
justin.tel

 

[rob]

Just a quick point of clarification - Telnic doesn't own bt.tel, ICANN does. ICANN has restricted the sale of .tel domains to three characters only at this time.

Thanks,

Justin Hayward
Telnic Limited
justin.tel

Telnic Master Contact has BT.tel as a pendingCreate...

Domain Name: BT.TEL
Domain ID: D1343462-TEL
Sponsoring Registrar: TELNIC LTD.
Sponsoring Registrar IANA ID: 19999
Domain Status: pendingCreate
Registrant ID: TELNIC-300802
Registrant Name: Telnic-Master-Contact
Registrant Organization: Telnic Ltd
Registrant Address1: 37 Percy Street
Registrant City: London
Registrant Postal Code: W1T2DJ
Registrant Country: UNITED KINGDOM
Registrant Country Code: GB
Registrant Phone Number: +44.2074676450
Registrant Facsimile Number: +44.2074676451

 

[retired_member13]

I'd assumed that since Telnic were listed in Whois as the Registrant for BT.tel with a registration date etc that it was Telnic's decision to withhold, rather than ICANN's - missed pendingcreate. My mistake.

 

[justinhayward]

I can see how it is confusing using pendingcreate - it's basically assigned to Telnic in order to prevent it from being listed as an option in Registrars lookups. This is a restriction placed on all TLDs by ICANN, some of whom have recently managed to re-negotiate with ICANN to release one- and two-character domains. This is something that Telnic is currently investigating.