Date   : Tue, 03 Feb 2009 23:29:35 +0000
From   : rs423@... (Mick Champion)
Subject: pres.tel

Rob wrote:
> Anybody fancy buying http://pres.tel/ to set up a community project?
> Just had an easyspace email that .tel is now available to register,
> but at ?255 for 3 years (from them), it's a little beyond my price
> range..
>   

Well beyond my price range too! Seemed like a good idea until reading  
http://www.eurodns.com/
Eurodns charge a very similar 290 Euros to set it up,  plus18 Euro's a 
year. Wow!.... There must be an */awful/* lot to set up!? 
Having had a brief read of the ".tel" conditions from the above website, 
I thought I'd share with you that ".tel"  seems to be an on-line  
address book with no way to point your expensive (locked in) domain to 
your web server (unless you put your web address in your personal 
listing) . Very odd idea. Do you think it will catch on?

<<<< snip including spelling mistake from : 
http://www.eurodns.com/topLevelDomain/details/Generic/Tel   <<<<

While the way .tel works does not allow the Customer to specify its own 
web site or name servers, it is a wonderful way to be reachable by 
friends or customers alike with unprecendented ease-of-use.

 >>>>

Perhaps when it proves to be as */popular/* as premium rate 07000 
personal numbers, the set-up fee may be abandoned?


Cheers,

Mick.