Originally Posted by rob

Reading some of the guff that is out there about .tel is amusing, it seems that the guys running it dont even have a proper idea of what it really it BBC NEWS | Technology | New domain to be web's phone book

Mr Mahdavi said it had some similarities to the Enum projects that aim to bind phone numbers and e-mail addresses into a unified contact system.

The flaw, he said, with Enum was that it demanded people be on the web. By contrast, .tel will work with many different devices such as smart phones.

Erm , how would that smart phone get info? Ah yes... by going online

He added that .tel domains have a "friending mechanism" that will grant close friends access to private areas that give more ways for a person to be contacted.

"It will become their place on the cloud," said Mr Mahdavi.

I am guessing that is the cloud next door to cloud cuckoo land