Plans for the new suffix point to a Sunrise launch in Q1 2008. Landrush should follow a few months later.
Some .TEL test pages, such as www.Indom.tel, are already up.
.ASIA may be all the rage at the moment, but there are other extensions being readied for launch as well. .TEL is next in line and the folks at Telnic are busy putting the finishing touches to their own launch program.
At the last ICANN meeting in Los Angeles, we tracked down Philip Colebrook, Telnic's SVP Business Development & Policy and the official line is that .TEL should launch in the first half of 2008.
We've since learned that the .TEL Sunrise should begin in May. 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."
Dedicated web pages
Keeping with the same "customer friendly" policy, Telnic has also opted to wait a few months at the end of the Sunrise before starting Landrush. "Both to give us time to process all the Sunrise requests, and to cover the holiday period rather than launching during that period," Phil Colebrook explains.
Landrush is expected in September 2008. The final version of .TEL's launch schedule should go up on a revamped Telnic website this December.
In the meantime, Telnic is continuing to highlight .TEL in action with the help of selected partners, like the registrar INDOM, through dedicated web pages. Try it yourself at Indom.Tel.
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