After .com / .net/ .org/ .biz and Info, now comes .tel

Not many people are aware that there are actually a lot more domain extensions, apart from the most common .com / .net /.org extension. 9/10 wouls still have the mis-conception that .com stands for commercial, .net for internet related business and .org solely reserved for Non-profit organization. These are not true! Anyone is free to register for a .org extension if they wanted too, subject of course availability.

But apart from com net org, there are secondary generic Top level domains which hope to offer more choices, just in case your desired names are no longer available in .com. you may want to consider .Biz / .info /.name /.Asia and lastly .tel.

.Tel is a interesting extension as it does not require you to subscribe to hosting service such .tel is positioned to be an electronic business card or name card. A sample of a great .tel domain which I find it useful is www.mobileyp.tel, a global contact directory which listed some emergency / useful numbers of various Asian countries.

We need to understand that all other domain extensions are meant for desktop viewing, except .tel extension which is specially cater to mobile phone viewing. Thus, you will realize that the format of any .tel extension is standardized, which I supposed are optimized for most mobile phone surfing.

Another feature of .tel are all contact information published in .tel domain are click-to-call enabled. Thus, saving much hassle to remember or copy the contact information. You click to the contact numbers and your phone immediately make that call. Your email / outlook open for you to compose your message when you click to the email address. Your instant messager or Skype activated when you click to the chat icon. or skype call.

With such amazing features, it is sad that Malaysian has yet to realize the usefulness of a .tel extension. Image if Maybank has registered Maybank.tel, it could be used as a contact directory if it is organized to what www.mobileyp.tel has done.

It will take many years before Malaysian really catch up...Sigh! What to do? This is Malaysia lah!