Launching of .TEL - Full opening on March 24th at 4 PM (Paris time)
By Arti on Thursday 19 March 2009, 09:48 - Gandi - Permalink
After the Sunrise and Landrush phases (underway until March 23rd), .TEL domains will finally be available to everyone as of March 24th.
Online pre-reservation for this final phase is available at Gandi. Registration will be made on a first-come, first-served basis. Registration requests that failed will be fully refunded. The price for a .TEL domain has been set at 14 euros per year excl. VAT under A rates.
As a reminder, please do not forget that the .TEL extension is unlike other extensions!
You will be unable to have a website with an address like example.tel.
The purpose of the extension is to store and manage your personal
contact information in a format that can be easily handled and accessed by everyone or specific persons via DNS records.
We invite you to discover all of the possibilities that are available to you on the registry's website at http://telnic.org/
In any case, I invite you to read our contract.
Please feel free to contact our customer service department if you have any questions concerning the registration process.
Click here to search for a .TEL
Comments
I couldn't find the amount of the processing fee for the Sunrise period anywhere. How much is it?
Prices (in Sunrise) are available here : https://www.gandi.net/domaine/prix/...
The registration period in Sunrise is forced to 3 years by the registry, processing fees are included in our price.
It is true $130 Excl Tax? Very expensive domain name.
With $130, I can have a domain names, plus 1GB blog, plus 1GB Email (Referring to Gandi's), plus still have $115 saving on my bank account.
Not just a single page showing my information. 
But anyway, I would like to see how it work. If people uses it, maybe I'll try it.
Just my 2 cents.
That's just the Sunrise price to protect your brand...price in march will be between 8 (E rates) and 14€