The one hundredth registrar to sign was Network Solutions, which
ranks third largest in the world with the number of domains under
management. The first registrar to sign up to distribute .tel was
European domain specialist EuroDNS.
“The overwhelmingly positive feedback that we have received from the
registrar community about.tel has been spectacular,” said Khashayar
Mahdavi, CEO of Telnic Limited. “We are delighted that .tel is having
such a huge impact well in advance of its commercial availability. It
will fundamentally change the way in which people communicate and
interact.”
Mahdavi added: “What is incredibly rewarding is to see the broad
international support .tel has already achieved from countries such as
The United States, Germany, The United Kingdom, China, South Korea,
Japan, Singapore, Russia and right across Europe, but also in countries
such as Malaysia, Romania, Pakistan and Turkey. .tel truly has
international appeal.”
.tel is also enticing new entrants into the ICANN-accredited registrar
community. Organisations such as Digitrad, a French communications
provider which offers interactive voice services administrated from the
web, will be providing .tel domains to customers in order to deliver
integrated communications services on the Internet.
.tel has already been called “game-changing”, “the white pages killer”
and “the Google of online address books” after Telnic publicly launched
the technology enabling the .tel service at DEMOfall in San Diego in
September. Brand owners are already processing the required
documentation with Registrars to apply for their trademarks on December
3rd 2008, which is the start of the Sunrise period.
A full list of the registrars that have signed an agreement with Telnic Limited to sell the .tel is available at telnic.org.
This news release was sourced from telnic.com/downloads/100_Registrars_Announcement.pdf.
David Goldstein