.TEL nearly ready to dial

Plans for the new suffix point to a Sunrise launch in Q1 2008. Landrush should follow a few months later.
 

There will be a single Sunrise period, lasting 60 days. “We’ve gone for a single stage, first come first served Sunrise,” Colebrook explained in LA. “The only eligible prior rights will be trademarks with national effect. And we won’t use a pre-validation system.”

Telnic wants to stay away from the complicated Sunrise systems that end up being a massive headache for prospective registrants. And they don’t like the auction models that have been used for .MOBI or .ASIA. “For ethical reasons, but also because we know that people are getting sick of these Sunrise periods,” says Colebrook. “We wanted the simplest Sunrise system possible for .TEL.”

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