Thanks for your comment and for highlighting this.
As a summary for others: Telnic (and Telnames) allowed people to store contact data in the DNS of their .tel domain name.
> Sounds similar to Telnic
Telnic used NAPTR records and was only available on .tel domains, NUM uses TXT and can be used on any domain name, by publishing a "_num" zone.
Telnic was also "just" for contact data. What we're trying to do with NUM is make it possible to publish any kind of data. Contact data as just one "module".
As a summary for others: Telnic (and Telnames) allowed people to store contact data in the DNS of their .tel domain name.
> Sounds similar to Telnic
Telnic used NAPTR records and was only available on .tel domains, NUM uses TXT and can be used on any domain name, by publishing a "_num" zone.
Telnic was also "just" for contact data. What we're trying to do with NUM is make it possible to publish any kind of data. Contact data as just one "module".