how did you actually buy the name - I thought it was not open for sale until tomorrow ... The data is stored within the dns and is apparently accessible from any device. I like the mobile readiness of .tel but will need to see how it will work with existing systems. The notion of a universal contact card (which is really what this is) has been tried with other services - Plaxo comes to mind - but this much more straight forward. yourname.tel from anywhere gives you one-click communication access through the channel of your choice. On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 8:33 PM, Andrew Daviel <advax@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I spent the departmental doughnut budget on a .tel domain, thinking it > would be a good idea. Maybe it will. I guess it depends how many people > get on board, as usual. > > > The .tel root servers are visible, and one can query them, but the > delegation is missing. Unless I misunderstood and that's deliberate > > $ host -a yahoo.tel a0.cth.dns.nic.tel. > yahoo.tel. 60 IN TXT ".tsm" "1" "pddx" "1" > yahoo.tel. 60 IN NAPTR 1 1 "u" "E2U+web:http" "!^.*$!http://www.yahoo.tel!"; . > > I feel I was somewhat misled by Network Solutions. I thought it was going > to be another TLD like .org, .info etc. with a normal Web page. > But no - it's a way of putting contact information into the DNS so it can be > easily parsed by lightweight clients in cellphones etc. It seems to be > aimed at the mobile generation for personal use (central repo for > AIM/jabber/cell/email etc.), but also for businesses. > > > https://telhosting.networksolutions.com/vfs/pdf/telguide.pdf > http://dev.telnic.org > > I've managed to enter a few basic things in triumf.tel > > As to what this has to do with Maemo, one of the contact fields is a > GPS* location > > Also there is an API and development community. So far, tools for iPhone, > Outlook. I only looked briefly but I think the intent is that you can > update information dynamically using the API. Otherwise there is a wizard > at telnic.org that updates the DNS in what seems like real time. > TTL is set to 1 hour, negative caching to 10 minutes. > > > (* using "GPS" as my cellular carrier seems to now, as a > shorthand for "geographic location in WGS84 coordinates" rather than > "Global Positioning System"). > > -- > Andrew Daviel, TRIUMF, Canada > Tel. +1 (604) 222-7376 (Pacific Time) > Network Security Manager > _______________________________________________ > maemo-users mailing list > maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx > https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users > -- Jonathan Greene +1.914.750.8740 AIM / iChat - atmasphere gtalk / jabber - jonathangreene@xxxxxxxxx Skype / Gizmo - JonathanGreene blogs - http://www.atmasphere.net/wp / http://www.maemoapps.com _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
