Comments on the New TLD - "number.tel" The "number.tel"
TLD will be very usefull for all, specially for the people who don't know the Roman
based languages. In India it has a real good application because India is a multi-lingual
and multi-cultural sociey having Hindi as official languges of the Indian Union and
each state has his own regional language. The similar problem is with Chinese and
Japanese languages.
As suggested in the proposal for the new TLD "number.tel",
where the people can use the phone numbers as the address, it will be very easy to
remember and operate the TLD by the non-English speaking population. Another plus
point is that we can have very easy search mechenism and even the voice recognition
systems can also be integrated easily which can be used by masses (where one can
speak the digits of the address and get connected).
I also agree that the "number.tel"
TLD will be widely used and will provide competition to other TLD's and millions
of website owners will use "number.tel" as a secondry web address and will provide
a link to their existing primary website.
I hope that the "number.tel" will be
accepted as the TLD soon which will have low price to the customers and substantial
revenues available for promoting Internet use by small businesses and individuals
in undeveloped areas of the world.
-Hemant Darbari
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Dr. Hemant Darbari
Group Co-ordinator,
Applied Artificial Intelligence
Group
Center for Development of Advanced Computing,
Pune University Campus,
PUNE-411 007 (INDIA)
Phone: 91-20-567 0097 (Work)
91-2139-52377
(Home)
Fax : 91-20-565 7551
Email: darbari@cdac.ernet.in or hdarbari@hotmail.com
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