What are the rules for registering an IDN.tel?
With one specific exception, every .tel domain name (in its ASCII-Compatible Encoded form) is treated independently. Each domain name is handled on a “first-come, first-served” basis. This is a continuation of the current .tel policy. That exception deals with Chinese Internationalised Domain Names, where Traditional and Simplified Chinese characters are considered to be “the same”. In that specific case, Telnic ensures that when a Chinese IDN is registered, the domain name that consists entirely of Simplified Chinese characters and the domain name that consists entirely of Traditional Chinese characters is managed together with the requested domain; these are treated as one unit. The ownership of a domain name does not give any automatic rights to register any other domain name. Thus ownership of shop.tel does not give any rights to ashop.tel or theshop.tel. This is also true for names that have different spellings, so that Smith is different from Smithe. In order not to act arbitrari
