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    Momentum Grows for .tel in the UK - Reuters

    Discussion in 'Domain Industry News' started by Acorn Newsbot, Sep 14, 2009.

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    1. Acorn Newsbot

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    2. retired_member13

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      You've got to love this - another example of the utter lameness of .tel and the people that run it.

      This is a Telnic press release proudly announcing a new BT service so customers can use a .tel domain to "streamline their contact information".

      You can find out more about how great .tel is at bt.com/tel. :D Right.

      Not only that, but guess who owns BT.tel?

      Why it's Telnic of course, they haven't released the domain to BT.
       
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      ^ this with bells on

      .Tel is .crap
       
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    4. justinhayward

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      Just a quick point of clarification - Telnic doesn't own bt.tel, ICANN does. ICANN has restricted the sale of .tel domains to three characters only at this time.

      Thanks,

      Justin Hayward
      Telnic Limited
      justin.tel
       
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    5. rob

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      Telnic Master Contact has BT.tel as a pendingCreate...

      Domain Name: BT.TEL
      Domain ID: D1343462-TEL
      Sponsoring Registrar: TELNIC LTD.
      Sponsoring Registrar IANA ID: 19999
      Domain Status: pendingCreate
      Registrant ID: TELNIC-300802
      Registrant Name: Telnic-Master-Contact
      Registrant Organization: Telnic Ltd
      Registrant Address1: 37 Percy Street
      Registrant City: London
      Registrant Postal Code: W1T2DJ
      Registrant Country: UNITED KINGDOM
      Registrant Country Code: GB
      Registrant Phone Number: +44.2074676450
      Registrant Facsimile Number: +44.2074676451
       
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      I'd assumed that since Telnic were listed in Whois as the Registrant for BT.tel with a registration date etc that it was Telnic's decision to withhold, rather than ICANN's - missed pendingcreate. My mistake.
       
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      I can see how it is confusing using pendingcreate - it's basically assigned to Telnic in order to prevent it from being listed as an option in Registrars lookups. This is a restriction placed on all TLDs by ICANN, some of whom have recently managed to re-negotiate with ICANN to release one- and two-character domains. This is something that Telnic is currently investigating.
       
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