Ten Reasons why .tel is the next .com

There are so many reasons why .tel – which was launched by the TelNIC registry a year ago – is the next .com and we had a hard time to trim them down to ten.

Ummm…
It’s different
You can have your own .tel
Cool purple logo!
TelNIC says it’s great
It’s shorter than .mobi
Yeah…
You can add AdSense text ads (soon)
You [...]

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McAfee Names the World’s Least Dangerous Domain!

Get this: McAfee, one of the largest manufacturers of antivirus software, just named TelNIC’s .tel extension the least risky domain to visit in the world.
CNet reports that McAfee claims that 0% of all sites using the TelNIC’s extension pose a security risk.
The firm said that since .tel is not a typo for anything [...]

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Rick Latona says: Starting at next TRAFFIC ‘face blurring’ policy will be enforced for all photos

After an incident involving a young, buxom domainer whose husband recognized her in photos from the TRAFFIC, New York conference – all while she proclaimed she had been at her mother’s in New Jersey, at the time – a new set of photography technology will be implemented.
Starting in TRAFFIC 2010 – the big domain “fest” [...]

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DNJournal closes down – Ron Jackson retires a millionaire

Tampa Bay – The Associated Press
It’s been a great seven years for top domainer publication, DNJournal, which ceases its online presence with a farewell from Ron Jackson and his crew.
Month after month and domainer event after domainer event, Ron Jackon – chief editor, president and skilled photographer – has been providing the ever-expanding [...]

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Will .ocean Make a Splash? Sunrise Period Begins Friday.

Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, (ICANN), has agreed to expand the ending words for websites to cover individuals and businesses that reside on water. Sunrise Period begins Friday, October 2nd.
“Our goal is to cover people who live in boats and floating restaurants.” As reported on their website. “This provides [...]

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Half-crazy domainer launches world’s first domain time machine

Meet Frank Lickings, a 5 foot 3″ unassuming guy from Cromwell, Pennsylvania. Frank spent the better half of his 20’s registering useless domain names, such as DeepSpace10.com, FranksFamousFriends.net and other such “gems”. His biggest achievement has been the registration of DomainersClubs.tel
Frank’s dad passed away in the 1970’s after a failed experiment with radioactive plutonium sent [...]

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Domain thief arrested after pushing .tel domains

Belfast, Ireland – TPS News
Police have arrested notorious domain thief Patrick Daniel O’Hullahan, also known as “The TLDster” in a raid of a local pub in east Belfast. The domain thief is being held on a number of charges, including possession of stolen domain names, extortion and public exhibition.
“We were on this lad for a [...]

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