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In this issue:

An end of year message from Telnic's CEO Latest news from Telnic Dog-collar competition winners Accountants Unite!

Telnic's Top Ten from 2010 Positive Content Did you know? Sheena Khanna, living the .tel life

Seasons greetings! Wishing you a prosperous new year from all of the team at Telnic. Thank you for your continuing support. We look forward to sharing our successes with you in 2011.

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"I consider purchasing a .tel very beneficial for an accountant, an auditor or a tax consultant as this resource is an ideal digital business card with easily accessible structured contact information at no extra cost or time." Read the full interview with Glavbuh.tel

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kash.tel

An end of year message from Telnic's CEO As 2010 draws to a close, I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for having been part of the .tel community this year. Still less than two years old, .tel remains unique in the marketplace and it continues to grow in terms of its performance, recognition and industry accolades. Your continued membership of the .tel community is appreciated by all at Telnic. Read the full message from Kash

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Latest news from Telnic

In September's edition of the .telegraph, Ian Bowen-Morris outlined a number of initiatives that would "broaden the reach and take the .tel message deeper into the marketplace."

This month, we're pleased to publicly announce that the Macau Yellow Pages, the official Yellow Pages for Macau for the past 21 years, is the first Yellow Pages organization in Asia to provide .tel to all of its customers. Oscar Sousa Marques, CEO of Directel Macau, said at the time of the announcement, that: "We strongly believe that .tel will enhance our multi-platform strategy and help us provide our clients with increasingly effective ways to target their audiences in Macau and abroad."

To add to this, we're also delighted to report that WebVisible, one of the leading providers of local online marketing software and services in North America, will also provide .tel domains for all of its small business customers.

Presenting at the recent BIA/Kelsey industry conference in San Francisco, which Telnic also attended, Doug LaBahn, executive vice president of product development at WebVisible explained: "With increasing competition for eyeballs online and the need for small businesses to be in as many places as possible in order to be discovered, we believe that .tel will be a significant enhancement for our clients when it comes to the multiple ways in which consumers are accessing local information."

We'll be making more announcements regarding the development of similar relationships within the online advertising and marketing industry to further our goals of adoption and awareness. To read more about these two deals and to keep an eye out for similar announcements during 2011, please visit theMedia area of our website. We will of course, keep you informed about the headlines here in your monthly edition of .telegraph.

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Dog collar competition winners

In last month's .telegraph, we ran a competition "win a digital identity for your pet", and gave you the opportunity to win one of Hundeladen's .tel embroidered collars for your dog, along with a one year registration of a .tel. A big thanks to everybody who entered, and the results are in. The five winners are:

Pippa's owner John tells us that "If she were to stray far from home it would be easy to TEL me on the Dog & Bone to let me know she will no longer roam." Shelley, who owns Lewis (pictured) felt that "I would never have to worry if he had a .tel, anyone could return him to us if he got lost. Our dog Lewis is precious to us. He needs a .tel" In Mexico, Francisco's Blacky has very simple needs – "My dog needs a .tel because he wants to socialize" Jack's owner Chris had many things he felt needed to be stored on his .tel – "He needs to have a permanent secure source for recording all his permanent details including microchip number date of birth kennel club registration vaccination status, pet passport status etc. Additionally temporary information such as weight, any illnesses, special dietary regimes etc would be recorded." Meanwhile Steve's Charlie is certainly keeping up with technology – "He's fast, mobile, friendly, interactive and it would look grrreat on his new iPad"

If your dog was not lucky enough to win this time, Hundeladen is offering a 5% discount on all .tel collars and harnesses from another-kind-of-dogshop.hundeladen.tel. To claim the discount, please mention the code "telnic-newsletter" when you place your order with them. We hope to promote more great contests next year in the .Telegraph, so let us know if you've got any ideas.

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Accountants Unite!

Alexander Rodionov (aka Aleks Frank), is an accountant with 20 years of experience based in Moscow, Russia

At first, I just wanted to create a business card in the .me zone with Glavbuh.me (or "Chief Accountant" in Russian which, to my surprise, won the People's Favourite prize in a .me project competition. However, during the course of the project, I ran into difficulties: lack of time and lack of technical abilities. So the best I could do was create a basic directory of resources. The project still exists and will continue to help me in my work, as it includes links to all the tax-related information resources I need on the Internet. But I wanted more, and that's when I got a .tel.

Project Accountant

I discovered that there are over 8 million accounting specialists in Russia and so I decided to collate one resource with all the information relevant for them, including useful links and contact information. Project Glavbuh.tel (or "chief accountant" in Russian) is built to meet the day-to-day needs of an accountant and includes:

Services for auditors and accountants, job search and recruiting resources Best forums on accounting and audits Relevant contact information for government agencies in Moscow, St. Petersburg and other cities in Russia and the region Tax consultations conducting business outside Russia Links to useful resources on .tel domains, such as USD.tel for exchange rates, or Banki.tel for contact information of various banks Contact details for the project organizers

Example: Directorate of the Federal Pension Fund in Moscow Postal address and phone numbers for each department and their service area

I would like to use this opportunity to ask the global .tel community to help me build this resource beyond information about Moscow, and into other areas.

The .tel domain can help connect accountants, auditors and tax consultants into a professional network, give them access to new information resources and offer a platform for advertising their services to potential clients, for example, as a virtual accountant's office where specific folders contain information for dedicated customer groups.

Next Steps

In the near future, I am looking to finalize the Chief Accountant project and trial it as a professional social platform. I'd be very grateful to anybody who helps bring together accountants, auditors and tax consultants into a network built on the .tel platform under my Glavbuh.tel, other .tel resources in other areas, as well as traditional websites, if necessary.

As my technical skills are limited, I cannot aggregate feeds from different social networks into one resource, but I can create a platform that will link to all the resources that an accountant needs. The Glavbuh.tel project is suitable for these needs as it loads quickly, is easy to understand and already possesses a number of social-oriented features, including granular privacy control.

It is difficult to make long term plans at this time. The .tel domain is continually improving with new technical features and new application models appearing all the time. .tels are approaching mainstream popularity amazingly quickly, with niche .tel projects springing up in various spheres of life. But that's a different story. Let's wait and see.

If you've got a .tel story that you wish to share, why not get in touch with us at community@telnic.org.

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Telnic's Top Ten from 2010

As we near the close of another year, we would like to give special thanks and revisit some of the best resources created by the .tel community in 2010. With hundreds of great resources to choose from, we struggled to shortlist 10 resources — to read up on more of our .tel stories and .tel weekly winners please visit our website.

We hope to hear more of your fantastic stories in 2011.

Talfen.tel		VictimSupport.tel
	Talfen is the first countrywide .tel directory in Lebanon. To date Talfen has more than 50 business categories, ranging from Airlines, Banks, Travel Agencies, Beaches, Cinemas, Restaurants, Pubs, Night Clubs, Diet Center, Jewellery Designers, and Wedding Services.		Victim Support is a UK charity giving free and confidential help to victims of crime, witnesses, their family, friends and anyone else affected. A .tel is a effective way for the charity to store the details of their various offices, as well as their support phone numbers.
IFM.tel		MikeTedder.tel
	IFM electronic is a leading manufacturer in the automation industry worldwide. The company provides local contact details and addresses for all their offices world-wide.		Painter, printmaker Mike Tedder is a multi-media visual artist and photographer. Mike is based in the UK and uses his .tel to advertise his latest exhibitions, Twitter, Facebook, as well all his contact details.
WorkLifeFinancial.tel		Nickolay.tel
	WorkLife HR, headquartered in Troy, Mich., U.S.A., is a professional employer organization (PEO) that provides administrative solutions to the workplace including human resource management, payroll administration, employment law compliance and benefits services.		Nickolay is a businessman from Ukraine specializing in large-diameter pipes. He uses his .tel as a brand and a contact hub to stay in touch with clients and partners. He also uses his .tel in all advertising materials including letterheads, business cards and employee uniforms.
FantasyLeague.tel		Nganhang.tel
	If you're a sports fan, fantasy league will be right up your alley. This is a fantasy football resource based on the Barclays English Premier leagues 2010 where you can read up on the fantasy premier league weekly tips and advice..		This directory in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, is used to store various contact details for various banks including Citibank, Commonwealth bank, Donga bank as well as many others.
Kravmaga.tel		BikeShare.tel
	Krav Maga is the Poland's leading school of combat training with over 70 instructors. You can now find your local club and contact the trainer on their .tel!		Melbourne Bike Share provides bike sharing locations in Melbourne with real-time availability to enable a sustainable, simple and healthy transport option to complement exiting transport services.

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Positive Content Positive content is a non-governmental initiative in Russia which highlights and promote the best resources for children and young people. The competition seeks outstanding online resources developed for a young audience where submissions need to be interesting, useful, and positive. This year, the competition included several new nominations, including "Best project on a .tel domain". The two winners: "Riddles for kids",http://zagadki.tel and "Sayings and quotations",http://aforizm.tel were both developed by Sergey Timofeev in Krasnoyarsk. Great job, Sergey, and all the best for next year!

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Sheena Khanna, living the .tel life

Hello everyone! I'm Sheena Khanna, and I've been working for Telnic in London since February. You can find me at Sheenak.tel. Over the past few months I've been using Telpages.com exclusively to find goods, services and activities that my family and I can use.

Today, I'll be basing my search in Paris. I'll be visiting Paris with a few friends in December to celebrate the New Year. This will be my second visit to Paris. My first trip was around 10 years ago, so I'd really like to visit the tourist hotspots again.The Eiffel Tower, the Louvre, the Champs-Elysées and visiting a opera house are all on my list.

I visit Telpages.com and there are 3 search boxes available to me: who, what and where. To start my search, I type in 'Eiffel Tower' in the 'what' field and 'Paris' under the 'where' field. This search brings back around 30 results. The first one beingeiffel-tower.tel which provides me with the full address, a map of the area and also the website address (http://tour-eiffel.fr/teiffel/uk/), a site that gives me all the information I need to arrange a visit. Second on my list is the Louvre. After all what's a visit to Paris without the Mona Lisa? So, I type in 'Louvre' under the 'what' field and 'Paris' under the 'where' field.

The first link on the results page is visitingparis.tel. This is a directory, and provides information on various tourist places in Paris, such as museums, castles, shows, shopping and much more. It also provides lots of information on the Louvre, including the official Louvre website, a map of the area, opening times, phone numbers and address. I'm a huge opera fan, so I'd love to visit one of the big opera houses in Paris. Within the same directory I come across an opera house called Opera Bastille. I click on to their official website and find on the 27th December there's a show called Mathis De Maler.

Last but not least we have to plan something for New Years Eve, we decide on a French restaurant for dinner to start the evening off. I type in 'restaurant' in the 'what' field and 'Paris' in the 'where' field. I also bring in the radius search to 20km to ensure the restaurant is near the heart of Paris. There are around 143 results. On the first page there is: http://restaurant-madeleine-c.tel .

I'm able to see the location on the map as well the address and phone number so I can call and book a table in advance. I also have a quick visit to the website address provided so I can take a look at the menu and other details.

So that's my Christmas break sorted and the end of my adventures for this year. Happy holidays everyone and best wishes for the New Year

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Directel Macau Ltd became the first Yellow Pages organization in Asia to provide .tel to all of its customers yesterday.

Directel Macau has published Macau's official Yellow Pages for the past 21 years. It operates under a contract from Companhia de Telecomunicações de Macau, the local telecommunications company.

.tel is a top level domain (TLD) operated by Telnic Ltd, a UK-based registry operator and is sponsoring organization for the new .tel sponsored top level domain. Since launching the .tel TLD in March 2009, Telnic Ltd has registered more than 275,000 .tel domains.

Directel Macau's solution will include a Macau Yellow Pages-branded .tel proxy page in both simplified Chinese and English. The .tel proxy page will be automatically optimized for mobile and traditional Web access.

Global contact directory
The .tel domain aims to provide a single name space for Internet communications services. Subdomain registrations serve as a single point of contact for individuals and businesses, providing a global contact directory service by hosting all types of contact information directly in the domain name system, without the need to build, host or manage a traditional Web service.

Oscar Sousa Marques, CEO of Directel Macau, said, "We strongly believe that .tel will enhance our multi-platform strategy and help us provide our clients with increasingly effective ways to target their audiences in Macau and abroad."

"By delivering this additional service to our customers, we will be able to offer a simple and effective online presence which will serve their needs in an effective and optimized way, regardless of how their customers wish to access and communicate with them," he added.

¿Los dominios .tel liderarán el internet de las cosas?

It shows that the guys at Telnic are really on the ball when it comes to understanding the direction the internet is going. I think .tel (dot tel) and telnic are perfectly positioned to create the ultimate tool to handle an entities internet control.

With the ideas above I am very interested to see a standard that will be mapped within a .tel domain to hook up to all of these internet ready devices (machines) as they are introduced to consumers. As an example, if I were to buy a new fridge that takes advantage of sharing info via the dot tel, how will the dot tel let the average consumer hook up the fridge within the domain name. Will we see a user friendly button for devices, in the control panel, which will then display a list of all of the devices that can be added? Will the directory go something like this 'devices', 'fridge' and you will have a drop down selection of fridge manufactures that are currently available. Once you select your manufacturer you can then add your unique fridge id/ip which will connect your item.

I have a few suggestions this idea should following:
- Don't display device information on the main dot tel websites. Only show it when a user logs in or via direct URL link. This information will only be valuable to specialists that will access this info via software.

- Each item could have a warning system that once something has hit a certain level an email will automatically be sent to the main entity owner which will be the owner of the dot tel device. So if a person is driving a car and didn't notice his engine light on, an email would warn him afterwards. If a fridge breaks down at your main office and you are on vacation a warning would be sent to the owner via email. This may be done by software in the devices that sends out this warning.

- The drop down selecting the fridge manufacturers should also have one selection that would allow for the user to put not the fridge id but another dot tel in the event that a user were to choose to buy a specific dot tel domain name for a device. So Stan owns Stan.tel and he owns a ferrari which he bought a dot tel for StansRide.tel. Stan could then add from the car drop down 'Ferrari', under his Stan dot tel. He could then proceed by adding a dot tel rather than and id/ip to connect to it. StansRide.tel would have the id/ip. This would offer greater flexibility. It would also mean that if I bought Stans Ferarri I could buy the dot tel with the car and have it hooked up instantly to my root domain name Raff.tel. Someone interested in buying Stan's Ferrari could also temporarily add StansRide.tel to his root domain so that he could quickly check out the information about the car in his control panel.

- I also think that Telnic should come up with a stamp for devices that are Tel Compliant that device, hardware and software manufacturers can use to further advertise their products. Every company is looking for that extra feature.

Telnic is always advertising that a dot tel could consolidate all means of communication under one umbrella. If Telnic expands this idea into a monitoring system of an entities devices/machines it could then advertise that it not only manages communication but it manages the devices in a persons world.

Janet owned Janet.tel and has a dot tel link to her business named Furniture World which is FutureWorld.tel. Both dot tels have a fridge and when it breaks down she will be notified instantly by software that is using the internet to detect this. This type of stuff is what Google and advertisers dream about. As a user why wouldn't you give the public access to your device diagnostics?

We know this will be a reality some day, don't we? Very powerful stuff guys

numeros para los dominios .tel

Summary and Analysis of Comments

• To: "tel-numeric-only-domains@xxxxxxxxx" <tel-numeric-only-domains@xxxxxxxxx>
• Subject: Summary and Analysis of Comments
• From: Francisco Arias <francisco.arias@xxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 17:40:00 -0800

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Summary and Analysis of Comments for: Allow allocation of 

numeric-only domains (excluding single-digit) in .TEL   Summary: 

  The comment period was open from 14 October to 13 November 2010. 

Three comments were received before the closing date; one comment 

was received after the close of the comment period. All comments 

can be viewed at: http://forum.icann.org/lists/tel-numeric-only-domains/   

Overall there was no clear consensus view on whether or not the 

amendment should be approved; each commenter provided input 

suggesting a different path.   Analysis:   Matthias Jungbauer, 

supports the proposal. He proposes ³to create only real existing 

phone numbers as tel domains² by cooperating with phone companies. 

  Volodya does not explicitly support to the proposal, but proposes

 that the country code will be a forced addition to the domain in 

order to avoid ³US centricity², also recognizing that it would 

increase the complexity of verification mechanisms.   

Tim Ruiz (registrar GoDaddy.com, Inc.) opposes the proposal 

stating that requesting this change through the Registry Service 

Evaluation Policy (RSEP) process is inappropriate since it does not

 simply involve a new Registry Service as defined under the RSEP, 

but rather involves a fundamental change to .TEL charter.   

Tim also comments that it is unfair to other applicants and 

potential applicants to allow a sTLD to change its purpose after 

it has been delegated. He further adds that Telnic's promise not

 to allow numeric-only second-level registrations was a fundamental

 aspect of its application and a primary reason why .TEL was 

awarded to Telnic and not Pulver (another bidder for .TEL sTLD

 at the time). He concludes that this request cannot be granted 

without requiring the rebidding of the .TEL sTLD itself, giving 

an opportunity for others to bid competitively.   

Tim also expressed concern about ³certain other recent [RSEP] 

requests² by sTLDs for similar reasons, without further specifying.

   Khashayar Mahdavi, CEO of Telnic Limited (.TEL registry) 

submitted a response to Tim Ruiz¹s comment after the close of the 

public comment period. He asserts that the proposal is not a 

fundamental change to the nature of .TEL, since the restriction 

on all-numeric strings has nothing to do with the nature of .TEL 

and was instead a measure put in place to address initial concerns 

about potential conflicts with ENUM. He states that .TEL¹s purpose,

 as described in its charter, is to serve the community of users

 who wish to use a TLD to store and publish their contact 

information in the DNS. He concludes that the removal of the r

estriction for numeric-only domains is therefore non-essential 

to the core mission of.TEL.   Khashayar further commented that: 

 * The requirement to restrict availability of numeric-only names

 was established to address an isolated concern that existed at

 that time: the concern of a conflict between the .TEL concept

 and ITU¹s ENUM system. He adds that time and the growing 

understanding of the .TEL technology has proven such a 

conflict does not exist. He points out that the proposal, 

by excluding single-digit domains, avoids the perceived conflict 

with ENUM;   * Telnic¹s sTLD proponent competitor (Pulver)

 mentioned by Tim Ruiz proposed an ENUM competitor system while 

Telnic¹s bid was specifically avoided such competition with ENUM 

by limiting the purposes of .TEL domain names. He remarked that

 was the reason why Telnic won the bid over Pulver and not because

 of the numeric-only restriction; and,  * The RSEP is the process 

that has been used in the past for similar proposals and therefore

 sees no reason why the RSEP should not apply to this request.  

  Next Steps:   ICANN will consider approval of the proposed 

amendment to the .TEL Agreement, taking into account the comments

 received.   Commenters:   2010 Oct 23  - Matthias Jungbauer  

 2010 Oct 26  - Volodya   2010 Nov 13  - Tim Ruiz   2010 Nov 16  

- Vladimir Shadrunov / Khashayar Mahdavi  Best regards,  __  

Francisco Arias gTLD Registry Technical Liaison ICANN Phone: 

+1 310 823 9358 PGP fingerprint: FE95 C7E7 36C7 A039 94BB  

C781 FD75 BB9D C55F 51B5 

Go Daddy objecta para que Telnic no pueda poner números en los dominios .tel

 

Go Daddy has objected to Telnic's plan to start selling numeric .tel domain names, saying that it, among other things, "smells a lot like gaming".

Telnic applied to ICANN last month to revise its registry contract to enable it to start selling domains containing numbers and hyphens.

I speculated a month ago that the International Telecommunications Union might object to the proposal, for reasons I explained in some depth.

(Briefly, Telnic won the .tel sponsored TLD partly because it promised for years not to enable domains that could look like phone numbers.)

But the ITU had nothing to say, at least in terms of the ICANN public comment period.

Go Daddy's Tim Ruiz did object last Saturday on related grounds, telling ICANN:

We believe that this request cannot be granted without requiring the rebidding of the .tel sTLD itself. It is unfair to other applicants and potential applicants to allow an sTLD to change its purpose after the fact.

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Since community, purpose, and use were such important aspects of the sTLD allocation decisions it seems inappropriate, fundamentally unfair, and even smells a lot like gaming, to allow an sTLD to change those aspects without an opportunity for others to bid competitively.

In response to Ruiz's letter, Telnic chief executive Khashayar Mahdavi wrote to ICANN:

The restriction on all-numeric strings has nothing to do with the nature of .tel and was instead a measure put in place to address initial concerns about potential conflicts with ENUM… We believe time and the growing understanding of the .tel technology have proven such a conflict does not exist.

ENUM is a protocol for addressing voice services using the DNS. It uses dots between each individual digit of a phone number, which would be specifically disallowed under Telnic's plans.

Mahdavi also expressed confusion as to why Go Daddy bothered to object – it is not currently a registry, it does not carry .tel domains and it will presumably not be affected by the relaxation of the .tel rules.

Is it possible the registrar is taking a principled stance?

Ruiz also noted:

We believe that certain other recent requests under the guise of the RSEP [Registry Services Evaluation Process] by sTLDs were also likely inappropriate for similar reasons

He didn't specify which sTLDs he was talking about. Without wishing to put words into his mouth, I can think of at least one that fits the description.

The Telnic proposal has already passed ICANN's staff evaluation. I expect it could come before the board next month at its Cartagena meeting.

In separate news, Telnic's less-controversial proposal to start selling one and two-character .tel domains has now passed its ICANN evaluation (pdf).

Ya puede tener uno o dos caracteres los dominios .tel

Subject: Re: Proposal #201008, One and Two?Character ASCII .TEL Names proposal

Date:

Thursday, November 18, 2010 6:25 PM

From:

Francisco Arias <francisco.arias@icann.org>

To:

Vladimir Shadrunov <vshadrunov@telnic.org>

Cc:

Khashayar Mahdavi <KMahdavi@telnic.org>, Craig Schwartz <craig.schwartz@icann.org>

Vladimir Shadrunov

Director of Policy

Telnic Ltd.

37 Percy Street,

London W1T 2DJ, United Kingdom

Dear Vladimir,

This letter is to inform you that ICANN has approved Telnic's request for the equitable

allocation of single and two-character ASCII domain names.

ICANN's preliminary determination did not identify any significant competition or security

and stability issues. Telnic's request for the equitable allocation program is consistent with

what has been previously approved for numerous gTLD registries. Furthermore, similar

requests have been approved for other gTLD registries and that the public comment on

the request received one relevant submission, and it was supportive.

Telnic may proceed with the allocation of single and two-character ASCII domain names.

Best regards,

__

Francisco Arias

gTLD Registry Technical Liaison

ICANN

Phone: +1 310 823 9358

PGP fingerprint: FE95 C7E7 36C7 A039 94BB C781 FD75 BB9D C55F 51B5

¿Debe dejar el ICANN que los dominios .tel puedan ser números?

 

Should Telnic be allowed to let people register their phone numbers as .tel domain names?

That's the question ICANN is currently posing to the internet-using public, after it determined that allowing numeric-only .tel domains does not pose a security and stability threat.

If you can register a phone number in almost every other gTLD (except VeriSign's .name), then why not in .tel? On the face of it, it's a no-brainer.

But Telnic's request represents a huge U-turn, reversing a position it has held for 10 years, that runs the risk of drawing the attention of the International Telecommunications Union.

Telnic originally applied for .tel during ICANN's very first new gTLD round, back in 2000.

The third-party evaluator ICANN hired to review the new TLD applications clearly assumed that .tel domains would be mainly text-based, noting that Telnic, unlike other .tel bids:

does not make use of phone numbers in the sub-domain name, but instead uses names to designate the intended destination of VoIP calls… the Telnic application appears to have the least impact on PSTN numbering.

The report added, parenthetically: "It should be noted that Telnic's application does not explicitly renounce the future use of numbers".

That all changed after November 2000, when the ITU wrote to ICANN to express concerns about the four proposed telephony-related TLDs:

it is the view of ITU that it would be premature for ICANN to grant any E.164-related TLD application as this may jeopardize these cooperative activities or prejudice future DNS IP Telephony addressing requirements.

E.164 is the international telephone numbering plan, which the ITU oversees. It also forms the basis of the ENUM protocol, which stores phone numbers in the DNS under e164.arpa.

ICANN's board of directors used the ITU letter to reject all four telephony TLDs, which irked Telnic. The would-be registry filed a Reconsideration Request in an attempt to get the decision reversed.

In it, Telnic attempted to persuade ICANN that the ITU had nothing to worry about with its "text-based" and strictly non-numeric TLD. The company wrote (my emphasis):

* All-digit strings will be permanently embargoed.

* Broad terms and conditions and safeguards will be implemented covering any abuses that could possibly lead to any PSTN confusion, conflict or similarity.

* Measured use of numbers might be permissible where there is no direct, marginal, implied or similar confusions/conflicts with PSTN codes or numbers – and where digits form an incidental part of a text string (e.g. johnsmith11.tel).

ICANN's reconsideration committee denied the request.

In 2004, when ICANN's sponsored TLD round opened up, Telnic applied for .tel again. This time, it was careful to avoid upsetting the ITU from the very outset.

Indeed, the second paragraph of its application stated clearly:

Digits are to be restricted to maintain the integrity of a letters/words based top-level domain and to avoid interference with established or future national and international telephone numbering plans.

The application referred to the namespace as "text-based" throughout, and even used the need for policies regulating the use of digits to justify the sponsoring organization it intended to create.

The application stated:

The .Tel will not:

…

Allow numeric-only domains to be registered, and therefore will not conflict with any national or international telephone numbering plan.

It also said:

Domain name strings containing only digits with or without a dash (e.g. 08001234567, 0-800-1234567) will be restricted and reserved to maintain the integrity as a letters/words based top-level domain

Despite these assurances, it was obvious that the ITU's concerns about numeric .tel domains continued to bother ICANN right up until it finally approved .tel in 2006.

During the board meeting at which Telnic's contract was approved, director Raimundo Beca pressed for the inclusion of language that addressed the constraints on numeric domains and chair Vint Cerf asked general counsel John Jeffrey to amend the resolution accordingly.

While that amendment appears to have never been made, it was clearly envisaged at the moment of the board vote that .tel was to steer clear of numeric-only domains.

Telnic's contract now specifically excludes such registrations.

Given all this history, one might now argue that Telnic's request to lift these restrictions is kind of a Big Deal.

A Telnic spokesperson tells me that, among other things, the current restrictions unfairly exclude companies that brand themselves with their phone numbers, such as 118-118 in the UK.

He added that Telnic request has been made now in part because VeriSign has requested the lifting of similar restrictions in .name, which ICANN has also concluded is not a stability problem.

However, as far as I can tell .name was not subject to the same kinds of ITU-related concerns as .tel when it was approved in 2000.

Telnic proposes one safeguard against conflict with E.164, in that it will not allow the registration of single-digit domains, reducing the potential for confusion with ENUM strings, which separate each digit with a dot.

If the ITU does rear its head in response to the current .tel public comment period, it will come at a awkward time, politically. Some ITU members have said recently they want the ITU to form a committee that would have veto power over ICANN's decisions.

But Telnic says, in its proposal, that it does not know of anybody who is likely to object to its request.

Perhaps it is correct.

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Welcome to .telegraph, the monthly .tel community newsletter covering the latest news on .tel features, software and services, as well as useful tips and advice from .tel owners. Why not share this with someone you think may also be interested? More resources are at http://telnic.org/community-landing.html. Printer-Friendly version Featured .tel domains ecosway.tel ecsa.tel fantasyleague.tel This week's winner avtovokzal.tel In this issue: A digital identity for your pet The internet of things? Discoverability first! .tel the latest accessory/must have Telnic spreads the word at local events .tel and gymnastics - flexibility is key! Does your email signature have a sell-by date? Did you know? Sheena Khanna, living the .tel life A digital identity for your pet - Enter now! Telnic is offering you the opportunity to win one of Hundeladen's .tel embroidered collars for your dog, along with a 1 year registration of a .tel. To enter you just need to complete the sentence: "My dog needs a .tel because..." Email your idea tocommunity@telnic.org before the 30th November. Please include your name, .tel, dog's name (this will be the .tel registered, or the closest match available), colour (black, royal blue, burgundy, blue, red or brown), Band Width (S = 2cm, M = 3cm, L = 4cm), measurement of the dog's neck in cm and address. We'll announce the winners in the December edition of the .telegraph. "Having a .tel is like an online business card with added features and options. You can always update it when you need to, and it's an easy link that people can remember." Read the full interview with BeritNewYork.tel The internet of things? Discoverability first! henri.tel One of the hot buzzwords (or buzz phrases, to be more precise) today is "The Internet of things"; the interconnection of all sorts of everyday objects. The idea is that, in the near future, one can envision that a proliferation of sensors and outputs will make even the most mundane object a useful node on the Internet. For example, your fridge notifying you via your communications channel of choice that the amount of liquids stored in it has dropped below minimum levels (or, spoken more plainly: "you're running out of beer!"). Or being able to tell the temperature in a specific locality by visualizing a map of all the locally available networked temperature sensors: those in your neighbours' cars, by windows, and so on. Or, in the most recent case highlighted by Google's announcement of its self-driving cars, traffic flow and incident, moving objects (people, bicycles or parcels) tracked in real time. The technology to build the Internet of things is available today. Beyond the obvious cost overhead to build a network component to all those objects, the main issue is how to network them. In order to network them, you of course need to give them a location address. Using good old IPv4 addresses is out of the question, as we've essentially all but run out of them. This isn't a problem for .tel domains as of course they're not needed to host websites, but it could well be a challenge for the rest of the domain industry in 2011 unless there's a wholesale migration to IPv6, which has been around for a long time. However, regardless of IPv6 address adoption at present, we have plenty! Imagine every single device having an IP address, and from there an actual name. Take for example thermometer.floor1.house.john.smith.com. That's a good start, but how will we know what that device can do? How will other devices be told how to communicate with it? What can thermometer.floor1 offer to the Internet at large? In more technical terms, the problem is that of discovering the device and its API (an application programming interface, which is an interface implemented by a software program to enable interaction with other software). Using IP addresses and the DNS can solve this problem very elegantly, using the techniques .tel has perfected; leveraging the DNS infrastructure to expose communication channels and entry points. Here's a concrete example: Assume I own a Ford GT and a fridge. Both are fully networked and both are full of really neat sensors. I could set up my .tel domain to not only let someone (securely) discover the existence of these machines, but also what they can do. Here's how I'd set up my .tel domain: fridge.devices.henri.tel would have records like: x-temp:http+x-inside => http://fe80::222:41ff:fefa:e3ba/temp/ x-pwr:http => http://fe80::222:41ff:fefa:e3ba/power/ and fordgt.devices.henri.tel could have records similar to the below: x-temp:http+x-outside => http://fe80::222:41ff:fefa:e3be/deg/ x-vol:http => http://fe80::222:41ff:fefa:e3be/gastank/ where both fridge and fordgt would update their location (LOC) records in real time (obviously the fridge wouldn't move too much, but hopefully the Ford would). Of course these are just hypothetical records, but anyone defining an x-temp service type could specify how that would work over http. For example, appending "get_temp" to the url could return the temperature of the sensor. Imagine two scenarios. I have a service contract with the supplier of my fridge and I have given that service provider the rights to access fridge.devices.henri.tel and the information stored under it. Their servicing software can access the fridge on a regular basis to make sure that it is performing appropriately and, if a temperature fluctuation occurs, alert me to that (I may have left the fridge door open) so that I can take action or, if there's a prolonged issue, fix a service appointment to find out what the problem is and fix it, all automatically and proactively. The second scenario is a public service one. The records in fordgt.devices.henri.tel I've set to public. As Google crawls my .tel domain, it finds these devices and takes the opportunity to read the temperature from these sensors, and inserts those data points in its map using their respective LOC records. Instant real-time, on-the-ground temperature monitoring, enabling open data to be accessed and manipulated to provide better information services to all. Obviously, in these two cases, the access is set by the owner of both the fridge and the car. With .tel, the individual is in control of the information being shared and is able to set access levels dependent on their relationship with vendors or other service providers and revoke that access at any time. Thus, concerns regarding privacy and data protection can be managed at a personal level, rather than with systems thrust upon them. Whilst sounding like science fiction, these scenarios are not far off. There are already developed initiatives for home systems management that are being rolled out today in order to better mange energy efficiency and automated home management. Devices are already becoming internet aware at an increasing rate. As any type of record can be stored in the DNS and it's of course possible to write to .tel domains via APIs today and monitor, if not manage, these devices. So a personal or home .tel domain can be the data store and interface between multiple devices and sensors in the future, enabling tight control of information being shared privately or publicly at the choice of the individual. Read more posts on the official Telnic Blog. .tel the latest accessory/must have Brit Frady-Williams is a fashion designer and owner of Berit New York, beritnewyork.tel. Tell us a bit about yourself and what you do? My name is Brit Frady-Williams and I have a degree in Fashion Design from the Fashion Institute of Technology. I started an alternative fashion company three years ago called Berít New York, and that's what I'm doing to this day! How did you start getting into designing? I started modelling when I was thirteen in Atlanta, and I'd started sewing at age ten. The contacts I made in Atlanta got me my first fashion show at age seventeen. I used a lot of that early success to get into FIT in New York, and the crazy ride's been going on ever since. What's a typical day like, especially in the run up to a show? Chaos! And it is nearly impossible to stay organized in the months leading up to a show. I have to multi-task like an expert, which is hard for me to do since I tend to focus on one thing at a time. I am also usually taking care of last minute problems and details leading up to a show, as they always say anything and everything can go wrong last minute so you always have to have plans A, B, C, D and E. How important is the internet in helping you promote yourself and your business? Extremely important, and in today's world I think it's nearly impossible to conduct any form of business without it. There are lots of advantages with the internet including free promotion and finding good resources and contacts. How have you found your communications changing in the past few years? I find it interesting that the advent of smartphones and other portable electronics have made it easier to text and send email, so now people spend less and less time talking to each other, face to face or not. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, as I think it's best to have things in writing, so I actually prefer communicating through text rather than sitting talking to people on the phone. I think it's important to be available for all forms of communication whether by Skype, email, phone, text or meeting in person, but again, it is just nice to know that we have options. Tell us a bit about your line for London Fashion Week? The collection is titled Retro-Futurism, and it takes its inspiration from 1950's sci-fi and comic books. I wanted it to be fun and quirky, with light colours for spring. What inspires you in your design? Many things, really, but the two main inspirations are colours and history. I think that's a good formula! I can design a line just off colour combos alone or off a crazy theme I have in my mind, but either way I always strive to make fantastical, wearable creations that are fun and go beyond the scope of mainstream fashion trends. How would you explain .tel to your friends and associates? I'd say it's like an online business card with added features and options. You can always update it when you need to, and it's an easy link that people can remember -beritnewyork.tel. "I like that I can use it when I travel internationally, that to me is the most important aspect since communication changes when you travel. It is always good to have a page with all your contact info so you can give it out to your contacts oversees." Telnic spreads the word at local events In the past couple of months, Telnic representatives have been out and about talking to different communities from Istanbul through to Copenhagen about .tel and raising awareness with key stakeholders ranging from technologists through to marketing specialists. Internet yellow page companies are increasingly becoming the go-to marketing organizations for small business customers, moving away from the 'walled garden' nature of listings instead to promote these companies online in as many places as possible in order to drive business. The .tel is a natural fit for yellow page companies in this new era where the 'scarcity value' of information is no longer controlled by few organizations but where seeding and maintaining up-to-date and increasingly diverse contact information is a headache. Telnic has therefore been presenting to yellow page companies at key meetings from the EIDQ (the European association for the directory services and search industry) in Istanbul through to the Asian Directory Publishers Association (ADPAI) annual conference in Macau, China, explaining the benefits .tel can bring to both the industry at large and their customers. Further presentations will also be happening in Copenhagen and London in November, focusing also on the benefits for telephone-based information services and the ability to send low-cost but rich information to customers seeking non-traditional ways of connecting with people and businesses. Additionally, Telnic has also been active in presenting the opportunities from a technology perspective to the technology community at large. With presentations to mobile marketing professionals at the London chapter of the Mobile Monday community, showing off the new smart phone template, through to demonstrations atIP Convergence in Paris in conjunction with Telnic partner voipGATE, explaining the opportunities for integration with the growing voice over the internet (VoIP) technologies and on to more advanced discussions surrounding intelligent networked devices, known as the 'Internet of Things' at the first all-day conference on the topic in the United Kingdom. .tel and gymnastics - flexibility is key! Shrewsbury Gymnastics is an off-shoot of Gymnastics of York, one of the most respected gymnastics in the area. Justin Scherading, the director of Shrewsbury Gymnastics, talks about the importance of having a strong web presence. Who are you, where are you based and what do you do? Gymnastics of York is based in York, PA and our satellite facility will soon be in Shrewsbury, PA. Our Shrewsbury location is going to be the best facility in the area for gymnastics training, we will be working mainly with children aged 2-14. We have a proven coaching model based on our more than 30 years of gymnastics experience that builds incredible athletes. How important is being discoverable on the internet or contactable by your clients to you? The internet is the new phone book. The first place that most prospective clients look for something today is on the internet. We know that having a large web presence is one of the most important factors in gaining new business. How do you enable your clients to reach you? Our clients can reach us through email, phone, or in person. Our website is also very informative and answers many questions people might have. When did you hear about .tel domains and what were your thoughts? In addition to being Director for Gymnastics of York - Shrewsbury, I also own a web and graphic design company (J. Marc Designs). Being on the cutting edge of any new internet developments is essential to my business, so I have known about .tel since it was first released. Though it was only about 6 months ago that I first acquired some .tels, I now have 7 of them. One of them being shrewsburygymnastics.tel. Who might benefit from a .tel? Anyone, it is an easy way to have some additional backlinks to your main website and provides a quick loading place for people to see contact information; this is especially nice for the increase in people searching the internet on their phones. What's your experience been having used it for a while? They were easy to set up and I like that it is at least somewhat customizable. I also really like that it doesn't require a hosting account. How does having a .tel help your business specifically? What are the major benefits of having a .tel for your company? I believe having some .tels has helped my SEO, as well as being a useful tool to offer prospective clients. I mainly try to focus on getting organic search engine results, which I think the .tel has helped with. The main reason I was interested in having a .tel is it is another way for people to find me online. The bigger my web presence, the better. What other online marketing tools/campaigns do you employ? How does having a .tel fit into your marketing strategy? I use some paid advertising online, though not too much. How would you explain to a layperson what a .tel is and what the benefit would be to them? I would explain it as being an embellished contact page for your business. The benefits are increased visibility online, quick loading on mobile devices, and no hosting account requirements. I think .tel will continue to flourish as long as it remains beneficial for SEO and online visibility. It will also continue to grow if everyday users adopt it as the modern day phone book. Visit our Stories online for more testimonials Does your email signature have a sell-by date? What's the oldest email that you have stored in your folders? 6 months, 12 months, older? Are all the contact details still correct in the signature of that email? Is even the email address still valid and active? Just like your business card, your email signature has a limited lifespan, which could be shorter than the milk in your fridge. To many of your customers and colleagues, a stored email with your email signature is the only contact details they have for you. Once any of these details change it becomes a lot more difficult for them to get in touch if they need to. Placing your .tel in your signature is the best way to make sure that your details are always valid, no matter how long that email is stored. Using your .tel in your email signature also means that you don't need to include anything else. No more enormous footers with multiple phone numbers, fax numbers and web links. It's all there in your .tel. Not only that, using profiles and updating your .tel regularly means that it's only the most current and relevant details that are shown. A reduced email signature even means a greener mail, with less paper used should a hard copy be produced. Go ahead, update your email footer today and it can live forever. Sheena Khanna, living the .tel life Hello everyone, I'm Sheena Khanna, I've been working for Telnic in London since December last year. You can find me at Sheenak.tel. Over the coming months I am going to be using TelPages.com to see whether I can find goods, services and activities that my family and I can use, only by using the TelPages search directory. Today I'll be basing my search in Canada. It's always been on my wish list to visit Vancouver, Canada. Hopefully it will be one of my holiday destinations next year. I enjoy skiing, so I'd really love to visit the town Whistler. I visit TelPages.com and there are 3 search boxes available to me: Who, what and where. To start my search off I type in Whistler in the 'where' field. This search brings back around 3000 results. I decide to click on the 4th link which ismywhistler.tel, I figure this will be a useful directory for not only skiing but other generic activities such as sightseeing, shopping etc. I'm not wrong as the directory includes everything; for example shopping, tourist information, sports etc. So I click on sports and then skiing. I then click on Whistler Blackcomb which is a ski resort. I look up the location under view map and also visit the website address provided which is www.whistlerblackcomb.com. This site is great and provides me with all the information I need to get to Whistler Blackcomb as well as other useful information such as skiing lessons, the mountains, accommodation, etc. The second thing on my list is to visit a nice coffee house in Whistler, as I'm a obsessive coffee drinker I need a nice coffee to help me function in the day. I've heard my friend mention a place called Blenz coffee as she's visited Vancouver a couple of times. I type in Blenz coffee under the 'what' field and Whistler in the 'where' field. The first result is Blenzcoffee.tel—and all the various locations are listed so I click on Vancouver which brings back several results as Blenz coffee is a chain in Canada. So I choose one located conveniently on main street. Thirdly as it will be my first time in Vancouver, I'd really love to do some shopping. I type in shopping malls in the 'what' field and Vancouver in the 'where' field. I click on the link Major Shopping Malls which then gives me a breakdown of all the major shopping malls in the area. Great for all my clothes and shoe shopping! Tune in to next month's .telegraph when I'll be visiting Paris! Copyright © 2010, Telnic Ltd.

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The Internet Of Things? Discoverability first!

One of the hot buzzwords (or buzz phrases, to be more precise) today is "The Internet of things"; the interconnection of all sorts of everyday objects. The idea is that, in the near future, one can envision that a proliferation of sensors and outputs will make even the most mundane object a useful node on the Internet.

For example, your fridge notifying you via your communications channel of choice that the amount of liquids stored in it has dropped below minimum levels (or, spoken more plainly: "you're running out of beer!"). Or being able to tell the temperature in a specific locality by visualizing a map of all the locally available networked temperature sensors: those in your neighbours' cars, by windows, and so on.  Or, in the most recent case highlighted by Google's announcement of its self-driving cars, traffic flow and incident, moving objects (people, bicycles or parcels) tracked in real time.

The Location of Things

The technology to build the Internet of things is available today. Beyond the obvious cost overhead to build a network component to all those objects, the main issue is how to network them. In order to network them, you of course need to give them a location address.

Using good old IPv4 addresses is out of the question, as we've essentially all but run out of them.  This isn't a problem for .tel domains as of course they're not needed to host websites, but it could well be a challenge for the rest of the domain industry in 2011 unless there's a wholesale migration to IPv6, which has been around for a long time.

Naming Requirements and Discoverability

However, regardless of IPv6 address adoption at present, we have plenty! Imagine every single device having an IP address, and from there, an actual name. Take for example thermometer.floor1.house.john.smith.com. That's a good start, but how will we know what that device can do? How will other devices be told how to communicate with it? What can thermometer.floor1 offer to the Internet at large? In more technical terms, the problem is that of discovering the device and its API (an application programming interface, which is an interface implemented by a software program to enable interaction with other software).

A Network of Hubs

Using IP addresses and the DNS can solve this problem very elegantly, using the techniques .tel has perfected; leveraging the DNS infrastructure to expose communication channels and entry points.

Here's a concrete example: Assume I own a Ford GT and a fridge. Both are fully networked and both are full of really neat sensors. I could set up my .tel domain to not only let someone (securely) discover the existence of these machines, but also what they can do.  Here's how I'd set up my .tel domain:

fridge.devices.henri.tel would have records like:

x-temp:http+x-inside => http://fe80::222:41ff:fefa:e3ba/temp/

x-pwr:http => http://fe80::222:41ff:fefa:e3ba/power/

and fordgt.devices.henri.tel could have records similar to the below:

x-temp:http+x-outside => http://fe80::222:41ff:fefa:e3be/deg/

x-vol:http => http://fe80::222:41ff:fefa:e3be/gastank/

where both fridge and Ford GT would update their location (LOC) records in real time (obviously the fridge wouldn't move too much, but hopefully the Ford would).

Of course these are just hypothetical records, but anyone defining an x-temp service type could specify how that would work over http. For example, appending "get_temp" to the url could return the temperature of the sensor.

Some Examples

Imagine two scenarios.  I have a service contract with the supplier of my fridge and I have given that service provider the rights to access fridge.devices.henri.tel  and the information stored under it.  Their servicing software can access the fridge on a regular basis to make sure that it is performing appropriately and, if a temperature fluctuation occurs, alert me to that (I may have left the fridge door open) so that I can take action or, if there's a prolonged issue, fix a service appointment to find out what the problem is and fix it, all automatically and proactively.

The second scenario is a public service one.  The records in fordgt.devices.henri.tel I've set to public.  As Google crawls my .tel domain, it finds these devices and takes the opportunity to read the temperature from these sensors, and inserts those data points in its map using their respective LOC records. Instant real-time, on-the-ground temperature monitoring, enabling open data to be accessed and manipulated to provide better information services to all.

Obviously, in these two cases, the access is set by the owner of both the fridge and the car.  With .tel, the individual is in control of the information being shared and is able to set access levels dependent on their relationship with vendors or other service providers and revoke that access at any time.  Thus, concerns regarding privacy and data protection can be managed at a personal level, rather than with systems thrust upon them.

What's likely?

Whilst sounding like science fiction, these scenarios are not far off.  There are already developed initiatives for home systems management that are being rolled out today in order to better manage energy efficiency and automated home management.  Devices are already becoming internet aware at an increasing rate.  As any type of record can be stored in the DNS and it's of course possible to write to .tel domains via APIs today and monitor, if not manage, these devices.  So a personal or home .tel domain can be the data store and interface between multiple devices and sensors in the future, enabling tight control of information being shared privately or publicly at the choice of the individual.

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1. Mark Kolb says:

   November 9, 2010 at 1:13 pm

   Interesting technology. Can you explain how the service "get_temp" would return the temperature of the sensor?

   Reply
   • Henri says:

     November 9, 2010 at 2:25 pm

     Mark, let's say I'm the sensor company and my product supports the hypothetical x-temp service type.
     The hypothetical x-temp service type documentation would state that:
     The x-temp service type functions only over http or https protocols. The x-temp service can expose the following methods:
/get_temp : Gets the temperature of the sensor, timestamp of latest reading, and unit used (F, C or K).
/average_temp: Returns the average temperature of the sensor, start time, end time, and unit used. Default is the last hour. Pass in begin=[DATE] and end=[DATE] to specify the date range.

     For both of the above services, pass in the parameter unit=(F|C|K) to specify the requested unit. All results are in JSON format.

     Given the above, if you find a x-temp:http(s) in a .tel domain, you can then do a query such as:
     http://x.x.x.x/get_temp?unit=F
     which would return you something like this:
     temp=72
tstamp="2010.11.09 12:00:00 UTC"
unit="F"

     What's important to note in this hypothetical example is that:

     - An app can automatically discover the existence and capabilities of a "thing"
     - An app developer can independently decide to support whatever service types she's interested in
     - Everything is decentralized with completely open specs

     Reply