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.tel a competition to .mobi? March 5, 2007

Posted by domaininvesting in .TEL.
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ICANN announced that weekend that the new .tel domain has gone live. There are many opinions on what .tel is all about. DomainTools Blog thinks that it’s a competition to .mobi:

If you had to buy flowers right now, what would you do?

  • A) Open the Yellow Pages and look up Flowers.
  • B) Go to Google and type in “Flowers MyCity“.
  • C) Call 1-800-Flowers.
  • D) Type in Flowers.mobi.
  • E) Type in Flowers.Tel.

Daily Domainer says that .tel won’t compete with .mobi:

Apparently, .tel isn’t a domain in the traditional sense. It will not be competing with .mobi, which was introduced last year and is all about “making the Internet mobile”.

Instead, .tel plans to become a cutting edge, decentralized, globally accessible and privacy-enhanced contact directory:

And Telnic itself hasn’t updated its website in a long time! What are your thoughts on .tel?

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