whatthetel wrote:If what it states is true and if it is what is proposed at this stage, any company who takes over tel could open it up in the same way and as such why do we want Telnic to have the renewal? when they have taken this long to get to this situation.
I don't think Telnic should have the renewal, I think a UK CIC should run tel for the benefit of the tel community and not for the benefit of egos or company pride.
@whatthetel - thanks for your very informative posts - my comments re the current .Tel situation:
1. I have long been a fan of the "Data in the DNS" concept which would have made direct dialling and direct emailing etc feasible (i.e. without knowing the phone number or email address) but it is clear that this is not now going to happen with the .Tel extension. The system architect of this concept, Henri Asseily, ceased to have an active involvement in the running of Telnic/Telnames some time ago - check out his Telnames .tel (you can of course no longer register a Telnames .tel unless you already own one) at
http://Henri.tel and you will find no mention of his involvement with Telnic/Telnames !
2. The problem with the CTH system (which does make it very easy for a user to input date into their .tel domain) is that it is NOT hosted by Telnic BUT by their registrars. This requires a registrar, just for one domain extension out of perhaps 500 or 1000 they sell, to tie up technical and system resources to handle this single extension. That may be fine if a registrar is selling tens of thousands of new .tel registrations a year, but they are not. So why should a registrar commit to using up staff and server resources for an extension that is currently failing and nowadays generates only a relatively low number of registrations/renewals each year ?
3. If .Tel was opened up to operate as a "normal" extension I believe there are many companies running the New gTLDs who could be interested in taking it over. .Tel is a great extension name for anything to do with communication - .Tel domains are very cheap in the resale market at the moment, though I doubt this would stay the case for long if it was opened up to allow normal web development to take place.
4. Telnic needs to be removed as the .Tel Registry. They have proved themselves incapable of seizing opportunities - for example they had a once-in-a-lifetime chance to get .tel on the world stage when Telnic's home city London hosted the 2012 Olympics. What did they do - ABSOLUTELY NOTHING ! Most of their key staff have left, their offices are at their accountants, and the CEO's personal .tel site at
http://Kash.tel is in a .tel format impossible to register (Telnames format - see
http://www.Telnames.com) unless you already have registered a domain in this format - talk about CATCH 22 !
SO YES PLEASE - LET'S OPEN UP .TEL TO OPERATE AS A NORMAL EXTENSION AND GET RID OF TELNIC AS IT'S FAILED REGISTRY - THEY HAD THEIR CHANCE AND BLEW IT BIG-TIME !
http://MikeSeaton.telPS. See
http://www.teltalk.org/t4387-afilias-wants-to-buy-failed-gtld#15215 for a possible buyer of the .Tel extension.