A .TEL domain name provides the ability to store, publish and manage contact information and keywords directly in the Domain Name System (DNS), the hierarchical system by which easy-to-remember, human-friendly names such as somedomain.com are associated with Internet locations.

If the Registrant of a .TEL domain name is an individual, he/she has an option not to have his/her personal information displayed in the Whois. The Registrant can choose to have this option enabled/disabled at the time of Registration. However, if the Registrant of a .TEL domain name is an Organization, then the complete Contact details are displayed in the Whois. 1

Web Hosting of a .TEL domain name is quite different from hosting of other domain name extensions. A .TEL domain name requires some specific Name Servers and these would be assigned by HOSTMARKET at the time of domain name registration itself. These Name Servers cannot be modified.

When a .TEL domain name is registered, the system automatically creates an account for accessing the .TEL Hosting Control Panel and sends the login details to the Registrant Contact. 2

There is no need for a separate Web Hosting package for a .TEL domain name. This account gets automatically deleted once the corresponding .TEL domain name is deleted. 3

If moving of your .TEL domain name involves change of Registrant Contact, then you need to update the email address associated with the .TEL Hosting Control Panel for this domain name. 4

A .TEL domain name allows you to send and receive emails like other domain name extensions. However, since Web Hosting of a .TEL domain name is quite different from hosting of other domain name extensions, DNS Records for a .TEL domain name cannot be managed in the usual manner. The necessary MX Record(s) for your .TEL domain name can be managed from within your .TEL Hosting Control Panel. 5

Child Name Servers cannot be registered under a .TEL domain name.

Example:

If you have a .TEL domain name registered as yourdomainname.tel, you cannot register a Child Name Server such as ns1.yourdomainname.tel, ns2.yourdomainname.tel, etc. under it.

Once you have registered a .TEL domain name, you are required to submit at least one publicly accessible communications contact such as a telephone number, an email address, an instant-messaging handle or a web link and associate it with one or more profiles associated within your .TEL Hosting Control Panel. In the absence of this, the .TEL domain name would not resolve.

Apart from the domain name, you may create up to 2999 sub-domains (Folders) on a .TEL domain name through the .TEL Hosting Control Panel. Each such Folder can store a maximum of 100 records.

Example:

You may create upto 2999 sub-domains such as yourdomain.tel, sales.yourdomain.tel, support.yourdomain.tel, billing.yourdomain.tel, etc. and upto 100 records for every sub-domain.

You can create a backup of the data on your .TEL domain name and later restore it using this backup from within your .TEL Hosting Control Panel. 6

This is particularly useful in case you are transferring your .TEL domain name from another Registrar to HOSTMARKET.