Hallowed Halls of Learning Secure .tel Domains
LONDON, January 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Telnic Limited (http://www.telnic.org), the registry operator
for the new .tel top level domain (TLD), today announced that universities on
both sides of the Atlantic are registering their .tel domains.
The Chancellor Masters and Scholars of the University of
Oxford in the United Kingdom were successful in securing OXFORD.TEL as well
as UNIVERSITYOFOXFORD.TEL, whilst the President and Fellows of Harvard
College were also front of the queue in securing HARVARD.TEL.
"We're pleased to see that places of learning and academia
have grasped the opportunity for .tel domains for managing communications,"
said Khashayar Mahdavi, CEO of Telnic. ".tel provides the perfect single
point for students to access the various faculties, departments and divisions
simply by typing in Oxford.tel or Harvard.tel into any device connected to
the internet."
The Sunrise period for trademark owners to apply to protect
their brands and intellectual property ends on February 2nd 2009, after which
time Landrush, the period where anyone can apply for any available .tel
domain will open on Tuesday 3rd February 2009. Schools, colleges and
Universities without trademarks will be able to purchase their .tel domains.
For more information about where to purchase a .tel domain,
please visit http://www.telnic.org/business-buy.html.
About Telnic Limited
Founded in 2000, Telnic Limited is the UK-based Registry Operator and
Sponsoring Organization for the new .tel sponsored top level domain (sTLD).
For more information regarding the .tel domain or Telnic Limited, please
visit http://www.telnic.org. .tel was launched to trademark holders on
December 3, 2008 and will be launched to everyone else on February 3, 2009.
Source: Telnic Limited
Distributor: PRNewswire