Doncha messa witha my .tel !!!!: Yahoo filed for arbitration on yahoo.tel. (click here, for article)

Yahoo Fights for Yahoo.tel
Friday, August 28th, 2009

Yahoo is first major tech company to try to get .tel domain name through domain arbitration.

Yahoo.telYahoo has filed for arbitration with National Arbitration Forum to get the domain name Yahoo.tel. Yahoo is the first major tech company to try to get its hands on a .tel domain name through arbitration. Many other tech companies, including Google, registered their .tel domain names during the so-called “sunrise period” for about $300. Arbitration will cost the company about $1,500 plus legal fees.

.Tel is a different kind of domain name designed as a business card on the web. Information is stored in the DNS, and .tel domains cannot be developed into standard web sites.

Yahoo.tel is registered to a man in Spain and includes links to his blog and an association he is president of.

Comments:

The .Tel domain is starting to gain momentum: (just last week watched the AsianNews video on .tel domains and how it would overtake yellow pages)

So now that the .tel domain is becoming more useful and popular companies are taking notice and wanting those domains. Yahoo doesnt need an pr they just missed the boat on .tel. they were effectively asleep at the wheel.

Looks like dialing your name will soon be a force to deal with, telnames and telfriends will soon be in our vocabulary.

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Well best publicity is for .tel “look Joe, even Yahoo wants .tel !”

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Could the respondent/panel raise the question as to why Yahoo! failed to apply for this domain during the sunrise process?