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3 December 2008 1 Comment

.TEL Domains Mark Advent of New Identity Carrier

As of today, the internet has a new kind of domain. ICANN has approved the sale and distribution of .tel Top level domains. These domains provide a centralized point of contact, which marks the first kind of domain name that behaves differently than simple website mapping.

In fact, the .tel domain name introduces the concept of a centralized “yellow pages” concept to the domain system allowing for mobile devices, as an example, to also map technology into the .tel domain system. In theory, the .tel system would serve as a global “directory lookup” for publicly accessible contact information.

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