.tel Approved by ICANN

rockwood writes: This morning emails from Network Solutions were deployed, i s a first attempt at pushing the recently approved .tel. The top-lewvel domain .tel was approved by ICANN as a sponsored TLD launching on Wednesday, December 3, 2008[1] to trademark owners of national effect and on February 3, 2009 to anyone who wishes to apply. Its main purpose is as a single management and publishing point for "internet communication" services, providing a global contacts directory service by housing all types of contact information directly in the DNS. It is sponsored by Telnic Limited. In May 2006, it was approved to be added to the DNS root zone by ICANN. The TLD was added to the DNS root zone on March 2, 2007 [excerpt from wiki] — full .tel wiki article