Register a .tel domain
$30 a year, paid in crypto, with no identity attached and DNS included.
About .tel
.tel was originally launched with unusual technical restrictions: rather than hosting a website, domains were meant to store contact information such as phone numbers, addresses, and social profiles directly in DNS records, viewable without any web server at all. That original model has largely fallen away in practice, but the ending still connotes contact and communications more than general web content.
Suits: Businesses and individuals publishing contact information as a primary use.
It is one of 23 software and infrastructure endings in the catalog.
What a .tel costs
$30 a year. One flat shelf price in dollars, drawn from your credit balance — there is no first-year discount that triples at renewal, and no fee for the privacy, because the name is registered in our name by default rather than as a paid extra.
The catalog lands on 5 price bands, and .tel sits in the $30 one alongside 18 other endings. Nothing in the catalog is cheaper; 369 endings cost more.
| Term | Price | Per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | $30 | $30 |
| 2 years | $60 | $30 |
| 3 years | $90 | $30 |
| 5 years | $150 | $30 |
| 10 years | $300 | $30 |
DNS on the name is included and never billed. This registry does not offer DNSSEC.
Registering a .tel anonymously
Offbook never asks who you are. Opening an account takes an email address you invent, a password and an invite code — no legal name, no address, no phone number, no card and no identity documents. Funding is crypto, so no bank or processor is in a position to demand them.
The .tel is then held in our name rather than yours, so the public record has nothing of yours to show. You keep operational control of the name — DNS, renewals and where it points — from the desk or through the API. Read more on anonymous domain registration.
If .tel is taken
Nothing cheaper in this category
.tel is the least expensive technical ending we sell. The full catalog is sorted by price if you want to go lower still.
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Nothing on file. Nothing to leak.
An email you invent, an invite code, and crypto. That is the entire relationship.