JuliannaReporter Gillian Shaw of the Vancouver Sun interviewed Webnames.ca Director John Demco as a source for her recent .TEL article. Read an except below, then click the link for the complete article.
‘Dot-tel’ names emerge as catch-all ID for Web contact
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Asking a prospective date for a phone number is so last century. Starting soon, it will be “What’s your dot-tel?”
There’s a new online gold rush gathering momentum as pre-registration ramps up for the Internet’s new “.tel” domain that lets individuals, companies and organizations store all their contact information in a virtual phone book for life.
Even though their phones numbers, their e-mail or location may change, their .tel remains the same. It can be updated and customized by the user so they can be found by anyone who knows their .tel name.
Or not, as the case may be since the .tel service also lets users decide how much contact information they want to share and whom they want to share it with.
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