IDN.tel

Your Name or Brand Now Available in 16 More Languages!

An internationalized domain name (IDN) is an internet domain name that contains at least one character in a language-specific script or alphabet, such as Chinese, Russian or the Latin-based languages with diacritics, such as German, for example, Jörn.tel. With a .tel IDN, you can:

Reach out to your audience in their language

Create a multilingual communications hub for the price of a domain name

Protect your brand investment

Be found online in the languages of your choice

How it works

• What: .tel domains in Chinese, Danish, Finnish, German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Swedish languages according to the Policies.
• How: First-come first-served through any .tel accredited registrar or their reseller that supports IDN registration. A list of registrars supporting .tel IDNs will be published at http://telnic.org/get-started-buy.html prior to the launch date.
• When: From 3 p.m. BST on June 15
• How much: Pricing will be set by ICANN-accredited Registrars and their resellers and is anticipated to be the same as the cost of an existing .tel registration.

Effective local marketing

With an international domain name (IDN), you can be found across and reached by local markets, customers and partners more effectively. With an IDN.tel, you can quickly promote your products and services in languages native to each country where you do business today, or wherever you hope to expand tomorrow, all without any further hidden costs for development involved.

No more websites

You don’t need to develop a new website for each and every target market or language: simply register a .tel name in the language you need and setup your .tel profile within minutes. The key information in your.tel page will be available in 15 different languages worldwide automatically, based on the language of the visitors’ browsers, whilst you can also add specific language information yourself.

Protect your brand

Improve the global recognition of your brands by registering a .tel domain in multiple scripts.
A .tel IDN will help you protect and extend your online brand identity, strengthen brand recognition, increase awareness of all your Web properties, and increase audience interaction.

Boost your SEO

Now your business can be found online all over the world!
Active well-populated .tel domains have shown strong search engine optimization (SEO) results, and there is every indication that .tel IDN names will deliver a great edge in local searches. By using the local script in the domain name, and utilizing the multi-lingual keywords and labels, you can increase the relevance of your products and services in local markets and search results.

If you have any questions on language support in .tel domains, please refer to the FAQ or send your questions directly at community@telnic.org.

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