.TEL General Availability launch; 100,000 Names Registered

(DomainNews) In the first 24 hours of the General Availability, there were around 250,000 requests for .tel domain names with 70,000 domain names registered.

With a .tel domain name, holders put their personal or business contact details directly into the domain name system, or DNS, rather than on a website. Information can include phone, address, website and email information.

A benefit of a .tel name, apart from making personal or business contact details easily and quickly available, especially for those accessing the information through a mobile device, is the minimal data download charges. The content is also optimised for mobile devices.

Small businesses also get the opportunity to have their contact details online without a website.

Another advantage of a .tel domain name can also be found in an amusing promo video from Telnic at:

www.telnic.com/index.html

And to help spread the word of .tel, Telnic have announced partnerships with a number of companies. British telecommunications company BT, MySpace who will sell .tel names to its members and the German publisher iWelt, a publisher of over 70 white pages titles such as Das Telefonbuch and Das Örtliche throughout Germany, is to become a .tel accredited registrar. Through these innovative ways of marketing .tel names to potential new registrants will help drive registrations.

There is also a free and open source iPhone application, My .tel, available from the Apple App Store.

To watch a Bloomberg interview with Telnic CEO Khashayar Mahdavi, see:

www.bloomberg.com/avp/avp.htm?clipSRC=mms://media2.bloomberg.com/cache/vcudeyeTmCQs.asf
telnic.com/tel-bloomberg.html