Organizations that own trademarks from countries as diverse as the
United States, France, South Africa, Canada, Germany and the United
Kingdom have applied for .tel domains including Yell.com, Yellow Pages,
Les Pages Jaunes, Paginas Blancas, L’annuaire and Les Pages Blanches.
“Yellow page providers have clearly understood that the DNS is the
ultimate database for managing and publishing live contact information
globally,” commented Khashayar Mahdavi, CEO for Telnic. “We are even
more pleased to have been in conversation with several directory
service providers who are considering becoming ICANN-accredited in
order to provide their customers with .tel domains themselves.”
Applications from trademark holders are still being taken during the
protected Sunrise period until February 2nd 2009, after which time
anyone may purchase any available .tel domain in a first come, first
served manner. For more information about .tel, please visit
www.telnic.org.
This news release from Telnic was sourced from telnic.org/downloads/online_directories_keen_for_tel.pdf.
To register your .tel domain name, check out EuroDNS here.