Potential of .tel
Maybe you’ve heard of .tel, maybe you haven’t. Yes its another TLD, but I am going to try to show you how it will be much more. I believe we will all know .tel very well some day.
Imagine for a second . . . your cell phone - instead of storing phone numbers - storing .tel addresses. . . thats right you put your friends .tel address in your phone and all his numbers automatically pop up when you select him from your contact list. Now imagine the power of this when someone changes their phone number. The person who owns the .tel address changes their number and voila, like magic all the phones with his .tel in them are updated! No more sending crazy texts, emails, facebook posts, etc to let people know that your info has changed.
Ok, can you understand the power behind this yet. .tel addresses will someday be the new way to contact people. For example, pete.tel is easier to remember than any 10 digit phone number. When information on the .tel changes it automatically propogates to all devices that have the address in them.
There are certain privacy issues that will need to be worked out. But try to understand its not what your .tel address shows, but what someones mobile device sees. Privacy to the internet, but open to mobile devices? That sounds like a cool little idea.
Ok, now heres another little thing to think about. Lets say you are about to write an email to your friend. Why not put in his .tel address? The email program searches the internet for the email associated with his .tel and you’ve just sent an email using a .tel address.
What other things could this mean? How about .tel domains and trading .tel domains. Well, already .tel addresses are trying to be sold all over the internet. Go to a registrar and perform a search for a name with a .tel ending. All the normal, generic, everyday names are gone my friends. Generic .tels may become very premium domains that will be bought or sold. And generic business .tel addresses . . . would you type in restaurant.tel before you dial 1-800-restaurant? I would. People try type-in generic addresses on the internet constantly. But nobody calls generic 1-800 numbers.
And there you have it. A fresh look into the new .tel phenomenom.
