Flake,

I remember reading on INQ some time ago that ".xxx" was voted against due to opposition from allot of groups including religious groups. Since the same groups are not against the site them self, I can only assume that it was because such sites would be too easy to filter our.

I would guess .xxx would be more profitable.

This falls firmly in the .dull arena.

We will us names instead numbers very soon. However there is no need for .tel domain, at least not for average person. It's more like "golden number". Why not use tel.yourdomain.com instead??? On the technical side, all you need is appropriate ns records to make it work.

in.tel anyone?

If I want a phone number I either call directory enquiries, or I can use google or the company's own website. If I want the address for say PC World, and it's opening times, and the phone number, then I'm probably going to go to pcworld.co.uk, or google it, click on link. I am not going to try pcworld.tel because that could be for any country, any location, or any cheeky sod who registered it first!

I cannot see it catching it, but we do need something like "free" minutes for web with all monthly plans so we can mobile-phone-web stuff.