Nominet launches UK ENUM registry

Nominet has gone live with its UK ENUM registry. Customers will be able to register phone numbers for mapping directly to domain name addresses for easier connectivity in a variety of applications.

ENUM works by translating an old-fashioned phone number into an Internet domain name, allowing people to continue to use an existing phone number on the legacy phone network, as well as enabling seamless transfers of VoIP applications from the IP world to the phone world.

Using ENUM allows phone calls to be routed via DNS lookup, so you can map a phone number in the real world to a SIP session; making a phone call to a particular email address, for example. Call forwarding, follow-me, and other enhanced services can also be enabled by the proper application of ENUM with other tools.

Nominet, one of the largest Internet registries in the world, won the contract to be the UK ENUM registry back in 2007.

For more:
- Nominet post [1].

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