There’s a very innovative new generic Top-Level Domain (gTLD) on the way called .TEL. OpenSRS will be participating fully in the launch of .TEL beginning with sunrise pre-orders (more on that in the next few days) and culminating with the official start of general availability on March 24th, 2009.

.TEL is quite different from any other domain extension. All the information for a .TEL domain is stored directly within the Domain Name System (DNS). When a user enters a .TEL domain into their browser, mobile phone or any other Internet device, DNS is queried and rather than returning an IP address that maps a website to the domain name, the DNS entry provides the stored data directly, formatted for whatever device is being used.

In many cases, users can then click on a contact method and immediately initiate a connection (including voice calls, SMS, Skype, email…) to the .TEL domain holder.

Click here to purchase your .tel domain!  Just enter the .tel domain name that you're interested in e.g., jimmyjones.tel.

Click here to view an example of a .tel domain that we purchased!