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.tel is now available for registration

.tel is a new sponsored top-level Internet domain approved by ICANN in March 2006. .tel stores and encrypts a variety of contact information directly into the Domain Name System and may evolve to become a sort of online phone book. Launched in December 2008 to business and organization trademark holders, .tel domain names become available [...]

ICANN Almost Cracks Down on Spammy Domain Registrar

An Estonian domain name registrar received a late stay of execution from the international body that regulates the domain name system. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers was threatening to pull EstDomains’ registrar status because EstDomains’ president was convicted of fraud. Just one day after notifying an Internet registrar notorious for allowing massive [...]