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.Tel Timeline

• Launch date: The .Tel Sunrise launch is expected in the 4th quarter of 2007.

• Sunrise rules: Sunrise rules will follow a first-come first-served basis. There will be no premium list comparable to what .mobi attempted. Full policies will be published 2nd quarter of 2007.

• Pricing: Pricing policies will be inline with other gTLDs. The detailed pricing for Sunrise, Landrush and General Availability will also be announced during the 2nd quarter of 2007 along with the policies.

The .Tel Community

The .Tel Community consists of individuals and/or businesses who wish to have a universal identity, brand or name, in the Internet communications space. This covers any form of intercommunication such as voice, video or messaging between individuals and/or businesses, that is dependent in part or whole on the Internet as the means of transport.

The .Tel will:

• Deliver an easy to use and easy to remember intuitive letters/words based solution, where numbering is restricted.
• Provide a text-based naming structure that will bridge the segmentation of all Internet communications services and related content.
• Bring to this specific community, through the adoption of the DNS and ICANN regulation, the Internet model of low barriers and non-discrimination of entrants.
• Create a catalyst and an environment for the community to freely innovate and realize new applications and value-added services.
• Produce a combined solution for both fixed-line and wireless networks (Fixed/Mobile Convergence or FMC). A sTLD covering both fixed-line and wireless communities is essential to avoid fragmentation between these two environments.
• Offer flexible deployment, thus providing the capacity to complement any existing or future Internet technologies (IPv4, IPv6, etc.) and networks (GSM, CDMA, 3G, WLAN, WAN, etc.).

The .Tel will not:

• Act as an alternate telephony addressing or dialing system.
• Conflict with IP addressing (IPv4 or IPv6), the PSTN or SS7 systems, or with current or future ENUM implementations.
• Overlap or conflict with any existing top-level domain and their value-chains.
• Allow numeric-only domains to be registered, and therefore will not conflict with any national or international telephone numbering plan.