We’re well past the Sunrise period imposed by Telnic to allow Trademark owners exclusive rights to protect their .tel extensions and there are only a few days left to the Landrush period.
The premium fees associated with the registration of .tel domains during the Landrush period was set to discourage domain squatters from snapping up mass numbers of .tel domain names for resale purposes are set to be removed next Tuesday March 24th, 2009.
Businesses may want to act now and ensure they gain control of the .tel names related to their company as soon as possible.
The 2008 ‘Brandjacking Index’ offered by MarkMonitor recently published an 18% increase of cyber-squatting during 2008, taking the number of reported instances of cyber-squatting identified in the 4th quarter of 2008 to a staggering a total of 440,584.
In addition to protecting your brand through the early registration of your .tel domain, you are also securing an innovative domain extension that serves as a fast and easy to access contact page optimally targeted for the rapidly growing mobile market.
