Exporting .tel Data
Contact and other data stored in a .tel domain can be exported out of the DNS in different formats. You may need to export data when transferring a domain to a different registrar company, re-using the .tel data in some other application or web service, or saving .tel data into an address book. Your options are:
- Download a vCard from the Proxy page. Look up your domain in a browser on your computer or mobile device, and click Download vCard. This saves the contacts that are compatible with vCard into a file. Note that some fields, such as VoIP numbers and IM contacts, are not exported because of the lack of standard mapping to vCard fields. See below for a full list of mapped fields.
- Export all domain content into an XML file. Using the SOAP interface, export the whole of the domain by calling exportData. This function returns an XML file with all profiles, resource records, and friending information for the domain. During domain transfers, you can use this file to import your data into another domain with importData. In future, data exchange operations might be implemented in the web interface of TelHosting, or in client applications for managing .tel domains.
vCard Specifics
Downloading a vCard can be a convenient way of storing contacts from .tel domains in various address books. However, absence of a unified standard for mapping contacts supported by .tel and vCards, some fields do not get exported. Here is the full list of entries that can be exported from a .tel into a vCard:
| DNS record | RR type | vCard |
| tel | NAPTR | TEL |
| phone | NAPTR | TEL;TYPE=FAX |
| NAPTR | EMAIL;TYPE=INTERNET | |
| https | NAPTR | URL |
| http | NAPTR | URL |
| x-home | NAPTR | TYPE=HOME (addition to TEL) |
| x-work | NAPTR | TYPE=WORK (addition to TEL) |
| x-mobile | NAPTR | TYPE=CELL (addition to TEL) |
| x-main | NAPTR | TYPE=PREF (addition to TEL) |
| location | LOC | GEO |
| a1 | Keyword | STREET1 |
| a2 | Keyword | STREET2 |
| a3 | Keyword | STREET3 |
| tc | Keyword | CITY |
| pc | Keyword | POSTALCODE |
| sp | Keyword | REGION |
| c | Keyword | COUNTRY |
| fn | Keyword | NAME |
| ln | Keyword | LASTNAME |
| nn | Keyword | NICKNAME |
| o | Keyword | ORGANISATION |
| d | Keyword | ORGANISATION (Addition) |
| jt | Keyword | TITLE |
| ft | Keyword | NOTE |
| bpa | Keyword | TYPE=WORK (addition to address set) |
