To help people manage all their contact information online, the Internet’s key oversight agency (ICANN) is considering a “.tel” domain name. If approved, the domain could be available this year. As proposed, individuals could use a “.tel” Web site to provide the latest contact information and perhaps even let friends initiate a call or send a text message directly from the site. Businesses could use a “.tel” site to determine customers’ locations and route them automatically to the correct call center.
In my opinion, this is a completely useless buzz, if we don’t talk about adding just one new domain for domain speculators. I can’t imagine someone who would buy a domain and pay for webhosting just to have his telephone number visible on the internet - you can use many different services for this, freewebhosting or just register a normal generic domain. Yeah, .xxx could be good idea, but this is simply too much. By the way, do you know that there’s also .museum or .aero domains anyway? They are in place for 6 years already, but almost nobody know or uses them. Just stick to .com or .net and it will be OK…
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