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No. Phone numbers are unique. Names are decidedly not unique. Every look in a phone book for John Smith? A .tel domain may be great for the first person to g
by fatdog789 17y ago
No. Phone numbers are unique. Names are decidedly not unique. Every look in a phone book for John Smith?
A .tel domain may be great for the first person to get a popular .tel name, but it sucks for everyone else. And for that reason alone, it has no chance of replacing a telephone book.
Also, it is an expensive, proprietary, unscalable solution to a problem that doesn't exist.
- plaggypig 17y agoWith a little bit of creativity you can do a lot with language, e.g. there are hundreds of millions of names in each of the biggest namespaces (AOL/Gmail/Skype/etc). One shouldn't assume that the John Smith you know has JohnSmith.tel, but to use a specialised search engine to find the correct one. You may already know one piece of his contact information, his location, or some keywords that might define him. It's hardly expensive ($10 /year). Everything is open source and compliant with preexisting standards. You can run your own TelHosting provider if you want to. It's decentralised (obviously). Why would you say it's not scalable? DNS is the most distributed and well balanced network that we have. Finally, you OWN your data. There is no malevolent third party.