.Tel Me What I'm Missing  I'm bewildered by all the buzz
surrounding the Internetâ''s new â''.telâ'' top-level domain.
This new entity, sponsored by London-based Telnic, is intended
to be a global repository of contact information for individuals
and businesses. The twist here is that this information will be
encoded into DNS (Domain Name System) records, allowing it to be
distributed to the 12 million or so name servers around the
world. When folks look me upâ''perhaps as
BewilderedDave.telâ''the DNS will not direct them to a Website,
as it typically does. Rather, they will access my contact
information directly from the records that are returned by
whatever name servers their computers are using to look up IP
addresses.  That much is clear. Itâ''s also apparent from the
news coverage and the descriptions on Telnicâ''s Website that
the company has put mechanisms in place for those with .tel
domains to control access to their contact information, should
they not wish all of it to be publicly available. Whatâ'