The .TEL Rush
Regsitry-Asylum.com the domain registry service owned by Ultracom Inc received a great response to the new .TEL domains which are tipped to becoming the 21st Century equivalent of the telephone directory!
There were many applications submitted to TelNic during the Frbruary ‘Sunrise’ period which failed, and according to Martin Sansone, known as TheDonSansone for his consultancy role in the organisation, he expressed his frustration in the rush of the release to General Availability as happening too soon! purely and simply because the checking and validation of brand names, key names and trademarks had been squeezed into too short of a time frame and many of the domains which failed the validation process, had been “left In Limbo” and not released for GA. So, it appears that quite a few domains have not been assigned to bidders; registered owners; nor the general puplic via domain registries.
These domains are just sitting there! TelNic are not keen on giving any details to when they would be released, stating that if a domain validation failed, then there was an appeals procedure, but even the time given to the appeals procedure has ended and yet the validators have not signed off on the domains, hence TelNic do not want to release the domains either!! What a situation, frustrating for many in the industry… and unless TelNic explain a fair procedure to how they are going to announce in advance when the block release of the “left over” domains will be released, there’s many insiders speculating as to whether some sort of behind the scenes hand shaking is going on!
It is rumoured that some of the most fancied domains bid on in the early pre-release went for large sums of money - money which has rightfully been paid to TelNic. Asylum-Registry.com reported that they had even registered chippy.tel and nosh.tel presumably for anybody looking for the closest list of Chip Shops and an ideal directory instantly accessible on our mobiles for a local venue where we can ejoy some Posh Nosh !
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