The Chancellor Masters and Scholars of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom were successful in securing OXFORD.TEL as well as UNIVERSITYOFOXFORD.TEL, whilst the President and Fellows of Harvard College were also front of the queue in securing HARVARD.TEL.
“We’re pleased to see that places of learning and academia have
grasped the opportunity for .tel domains for managing communications,”
said Khashayar Mahdavi, CEO of Telnic. “.tel provides the perfect
single point for students to access the various faculties, departments
and divisions simply by typing in Oxford.tel or Harvard.tel into any
device connected to the internet.”
The Sunrise period for trademark owners to apply to protect their
brands and intellectual property ends on February 2nd 2009, after which
time Landrush, the period where anyone can apply for any available .tel
domain will open on Tuesday 3rd February 2009. Schools, colleges and
Universities without trademarks will be able to purchase their .tel
domains.
For more information about where to purchase a .tel domain, please visit telnic.org/business-buy.html.
This Telnic news release was sourced from telnic.com/downloads/Hallowed_Halls_buy_tel.pdf.
To register your .tel domain name, check out EuroDNS here.