This is from the New York Times tech blog, and it describes a new TLD (top level domain) called .tel (as in yourname.tel).

This is being touted as a way to have all your addresses on the web, so (for example) users with a smartphone (BlackBerry, iPhone, etc.) could have all your contact info with just a link. If you change your .tel info, anyone who has the link would get the updates automatically.

This could be a very neat idea! Here is a graphic from the article showing how it might work:

The article says that after an initial offering where getting a .tel name costs big bucks (mainly to allow for trademarked companies to get their names registered where they won’t have to fight for it), “dot-tel” names will be available for around $20 per year.

See the NY Times article here.