That’s part of an E164.org configuration.
I admit, what I just showed you there won’t qualify as eye candy. But it is something you should care about. I would like to explain.
Remember the old days when one phone company - the regional Bell or local company serving a given area, was all you needed for directory assistance?
Well, that was then. Now, with so many VoIP, cell and other telecom service providers, how are you going to find the person’s phone number you are looking for?
It’s not that you can call Vonage and access their directory.
Well, as IP name and address software company Nonimum’s CEO Chris Risley explains in this month’s edition of Converge! Network Digest, the key to all of this is ENUM.
ENUM (TElephone NUMber Mapping) is the name for an Internet Engineering Taskforce standard for directing Internet traffic using traditional phone numbers. It integrates E.164 phone numbers with IP addressing using the Domain Name System.
E164.org is a directory of telephone numbers that can be reached over the Internet.
The system works by publishing a DNS zone, ‘e164.org’, that can be used by various Internet applications including SER, Gnome Meeting and Asterisk. The concept here is to be able to map your phone number to an Email address, website, or VoIP address.