Telnic (http://www.telnic.org), a new top-level domain .tel registration operator, has started accepting applications from companies and agencies worldwide today. From today until February 2, 2009, trademark owners may register .tel domains for their brands and company names to provide them with a "real-time" consolidated list in the first global mobile optimized online directory.
Commenting on the beginning of the Sunrise period, Telnic CEO Khashayar Mahdavi said: "The launch of. Tel is one of the most significant innovations in the Domain Name System since .com. Basically, Large-scale enterprises provide a fast, efficient and applicable smart service that will allow customers to interact with the business in any way they want, and any organization that wants to communicate better with their customers should buy a .tel domain. "
Trademark Holders may register .tel domain names on an as-is-first basis to ICANN-certified domain name registrars in 29 countries in all major regions of the world. More than 120 registrars in 29 countries around the world have signed contracts with Telnic and new registrars are gradually opening up services.
Priority registration agencies are confident about the future of .tel. Nick Wood, managing director of Com Laude, a UK registrar, said: "Telnic is already embarking on a pre-registration period that gives brand owners around the world the opportunity to get the .tel domain name first. Tel We offer our brand owners a new way to communicate with their customers, and we want companies to take this opportunity to register their domain names. Based on the current interest we have in the market for .tel, we believe .tel will be brand-owned Great welcome. "