Sroys

TELL THEM TO STOP! ICANN has introduced a new top level domain - .TEL - where companies can have a single page website containing their telephone contact numbers - no images, no logo - nothing.

Well this is outright silly - well maybe actually not - it’ll make ICANN a hell lot of money as all major companies would HAVE TO BUY their domain and put up their page of telephone numbers. It’s really odd that this sort of top level domains are being introduced - how about something more useful like .tech or .software or .app or .consultant or .browse - anything but this.

You know what’s coming next - .office - where you can one page with your office address. Then it’ll be .born to display your birthday to the world. How exactly do they decide what to release next in terms of top level domains?

As Michael Arrington of Tech Crunch puts it “ICANN is notorious for approving just about any new project as long as they get their fees (ICANN was in favor of creating a special porn domain name until the U.S. Senate suggested it might be a bad idea)”