.Tel TLD Approved By ICANN

In a major development and boost for deployment of VoiP ICANN today approved the creation of the .tel top-level domain Monday, which would provide a basis for navigation and naming of Internet communications in particular VoIP It was first Proposed by Telnic a company established to further internet telephony in 2000."The days of needing to remember several telephone numbers, numerous VoIP or instant message identities and other points of contact for our social and professional networks are over," Telnic CEO Khashayar Mahdavi said in a statement. "By leveraging innovative DNS technology, the .Tel domain will allow anyone to publish and control, in real time, how they can be reached." The company also announced plans to release free applications that would be able to take advantage of such services.