Telnic would like to become the Internet’s white pages, via the DNS as well as a Web-based presence; the “sunrise” (first registrations) on their .tel domain begins on December 3rd.

In the meantime, they’re taking trial sign-ups. I signed up. Telnic promptly emailed me a registration confirmation, sending my username and password to me in cleartext.

This company would like me to believe that they can be trusted to keep my confidential personal (or business) information secure…