Re: dot tel - a new TLD

Dan Connolly wrote:
> [[
> The idea here is to use a Web address that ends in .tel as one would use
> a telephone number. Steering a Web browser towards www.hertz.tel, for
> example, would activate an Internet phone call to someone at Hertz.
> ]]
> 
>  -- A Web Address for a Phone Number? Do .Tel
> By Ben Charny
> May 15, 2006 
> http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1962924,00.asp
> 
> Sigh... why not tel.hertz.com?

Why not a tel: URI that already works?

I've been reading comedy sci-fi novels, and yet this is still the 
silliest idea I've heard all week.

Received on Wednesday, 17 May 2006 08:40:36 UTC