About the Telnic

Telnic was founded in 1998 with the mission of developing and delivering cutting-edge technology and solutions for a new Internet communications based Top Level Domain (TLD): .Tel. This new TLD is designed to be a universal text naming and navigation system for contact information accessed from Internet enabled communications devices.

To achieve this objective, Telnic applied to ICANN in October 2000 for an Internet communications-specific sponsored TLD. Although there were multiple applications, Telnic's application was the only one to propose the exclusive use of text naming and navigation in the Internet communications space. In March 2004, Telnic once again submitted an ICANN application for the .Tel registry, and in May 2006, ICANN approved the application.

The purpose of .Tel is to provide individuals and businesses a text-based naming and navigation structure for the Internet communications space: any individual or business will be able to initiate communication or access services simply by inputting AdamSmith.tel or Hertz.tel on their Internet-enabled communications device.

This new Top Level Domain, .Tel, will have far reaching implications on how individuals and corporations intercommunicate and conduct their business. The .Tel domain will offer a universal identity for names and brands.

The .Tel Community

The .Tel will:

• Deliver an easy to use and easy to remember intuitive letters/words based solution, where numbering is restricted.
• Provide a text-based naming structure that will bridge the segmentation of all Internet communications services and related content.
• Bring to this specific community, through the adoption of the DNS and ICANN regulation, the Internet model of low barriers and non-discrimination of entrants.
• Create a catalyst and an environment for the community to freely innovate and realize new applications and value-added services.
• Produce a combined solution for both fixed-line and wireless networks (Fixed/Mobile Convergence or FMC). A sTLD covering both fixed-line and wireless communities is essential to avoid fragmentation between these two environments.
• Offer flexible deployment, thus providing the capacity to complement any existing or future Internet technologies (IPv4, IPv6, etc.) and networks (GSM, CDMA, 3G, WLAN, WAN, etc.).

The .Tel will not:

• Act as an alternate telephony addressing or dialing system.
• Conflict with IP addressing (IPv4 or IPv6), the PSTN or SS7 systems, or with current or future ENUM implementations.
• Overlap or conflict with any existing top-level domain and their value-chains.
• Allow numeric-only domains to be registered, and therefore will not conflict with any national or international telephone numbering plan.

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