TEL TLD allows storing and controlling all the contact information directly within the DNS with no need for a site building or hosting purchase involved. This feature makes it different from any other domains, where the DNS just allows correlating a name with an IP address.

Your contact data on the .TEL domains can be protected by providing access to a certain set of persons, only. For more detailed information, please, refer to our .TEL Domain Use Manual at TEL hosting information management.

A .TEL domain name may consist of 3 to 36 characters (Latin alphabet letters, symbol "-" and digits) and should contain at least one Latin alphabet letter. The "-" symbol may not be put at the same time in positions 3 and 4.

Yes, you may.For registration, you need to log in to "Manage your account → Orders: Register domain" and then proceed to "IDN Registration".

If the domain is displayed in Whois as a free one, it does not at all mean that it is available for registration. This domain can be reserved by the Registry. Whois shows the information about domain owners. If a domain is registered by the trademark holders (Sunrise) at the priority registration period, but has not yet been transferred to its applicant (for instance, any supplementary documents are forthcoming or a dispute settlement is underway), Whois will display it as a free one. Further on, some domains can be reserved under the Registry or ICANN regulations. Therefore, they, too, can be listed as unregistered by the Registry or ICANN and, typically, have a "free" status with Whois.

Please, refer for any such domain lists to the Registry website

The domain registration availability (Available / Not Available) can be checked up at the Registry's website's main page in the Check Availability field.

Google has already indexed dozens of thousands .TEL domains. The TEL. Telnic has no data available on any deviations of the situation from the normal.

The search engines will be required to find a .TEL domain site. Therefore, a .TEL domain to be sought is to be referenced to in some way, or else the holder should add its .TEL domain to the search engine all by itself.

The .TEL domains are intended for the contact information storage to be kept directly within the DNS. In this case the visual information presentation is not more than an application.

However, the proxy page visit statistics is provided at https://telstats.nic.tel

It should be emphasized that the .TEL customer applications are addressed directly to the DNS in bypass of a proxy page, and, as the DNS does the answer cashing, in practical terms, the domain use statistics cannot be realistically drawn up. Consequently, the proxy page statistics will be able to provide comparative, rather than absolute characteristics.

In order to have the domain delegated and the contact information page opened, whenever your domain is inquired, at least one public record of the NAPRT type (in the Contact Information section) has to be entered into the TEL hosting control panels. The information on how to enter the records and control your domain data can be viewed in the Manual at TEL hosting information management.

The domain will be resolved within 5 to 12 hours after the contact information is entered in. Please, check it up for availability of at least one public and active record (the Public type, to be shown in the red-and-black colour).

This possibility has been provided for in respect of the individuals and sole-traders. For more details, please, refer to section Adding Whois Privacy for TEL

If the location has been originally preset in the TEL hosting control panel, then, in order to have it displayed, a reference has to be clicked in the Geographic Coordinates section.

There is no such possibility provided for now, nor is it planned for the nearest future.

Yes, you may. To start with, learn the mail server name from your provider to receive the mail hosting services. In case you order your mail from RU-CENTER (tables of charges MAIL, 101, 201 and 301), the server name is mx01.nicmail.ru.

Then, please, indicate it in the TEL hosting domain settings, taking therefore the following steps:

• Log in to access the TEL hosting control panel at http://tel.nic.ru by entering the User Name and Password;
• find the Settings section in the control panel;
• select the e-mail.tel Settings in the Settings section;
• enter the mail server name in the Server Name section;
• set the priority in the Succession field (the lowest one will be shown first); and
• click the Save button.

The upper right corner contains a field with your domain name. Click the arrow and select the domain you need.

The limitations on the all-digit domain names have been imposed to avoid a conflict with the numbering system adopted in the traditional telephony.

One.

Yes, it may.

Yes, it can, if the handset has an internet access. A special software has been created for some handset models to prevent the website appearance from any changes depending on the device used for its viewing.

TEL hosting password reclamation

You are trying to register TEL or identical to it that has been registered already in another language. For example, if domain pear.tel (Latin symbols) has already been registered, domain pear.tel (Cyrillic symbols) will be unavailable for registration and vice-a-versa, if domain pear.tel (Cyrillic symbols) has been registered, domain pear.tel will be unavailable for registration.

IDN TELembraces the options of common TEL domains.

Yes, you may. E-mail set-up procedure is the same as for common domains.