.bosch
Generic top-level domain
Nobody outside the registry can register here. .bosch is a brand TLD run by Robert Bosch GMBH, which under ICANN's Specification 13 means its operator is the only permitted registrant. ds reports names here as PRIVATE rather than AVAILABLE, and leaves the zone out of --tld all unless you pass --private include. See Brand and reserved TLDs.
- Registration
- Closedno public names
- Operator
- Robert Bosch GMBH
- Lookup
- RDAP + WHOISanswers for it
- DNSSEC
- Signed1 DS record in the root
- Level
- Secondmybrand.bosch
Check a name
Names under .bosch cannot be registered, but ds will still tell you what the registry says.
ds mybrand --tld boschAdd --where for the registrars and the registry's rules, --registry for the server that answered, or --all-info for everything at once.
What it costs
No registrar in the price table bundled with ds quotes .bosch, so the CLI prints no figure beside it — one of 927 such TLDs. That is a gap in the table as often as it is a TLD nobody sells, though here it is neither: the zone is closed. See Prices for supplying your own table with --pricing-file.
Who can register
Nobody outside Robert Bosch GMBH — see the note at the top of this page.
How ds answers for it
RDAP first, WHOIS second — the same order for every TLD. .bosch has both, so RDAP answers and WHOIS is the fallback if it does not.
- RDAP
https://rdap.identitydigital.services/rdapFrom IANA's bootstrap, refreshed when this page was built. The lookup ishttps://rdap.identitydigital.services/rdap/domain/mybrand.bosch— a 404 means the name is free.- WHOIS
whois.nic.boschQueried on port 43, from the bundled whois.json. The name is called free when the reply containsdomain not found— text matching, which is why RDAP is preferred where it exists.
ds mybrand --tld bosch --registry prints whichever of these answered. If a bundled WHOIS host has gone stale, IANA is asked who serves .bosch today. See Accuracy notes.
The registry
From IANA's delegation record for .bosch. .bosch is a generic TLD.
- Run by
- Robert Bosch GMBHBased in Germany. Delegated 2015-12-18, record last updated 2023-08-11.
- Published services
rdap.identitydigital.services · whois.nic.boschWhat the registry itself tells IANA it runs. They agree with whatdsasks.- Name servers
a0.nic.boscha2.nic.boschb0.nic.boschc0.nic.boschThe 4 authoritative servers for the .bosch zone — what the root delegates to. Nothingdsqueries directly; they are what makes a registered name resolve.
What it is
Derived from the root zone and ICANN's registry list — each one is a fact with a source.
genericIANA Root Zone Database types it "generic"brandICANN records Specification 13 — a brand TLD, closed to the publicnew-gtldICANN delegated it on or after 2013-10-23, when the 2013 round opened — seedelegated
In the root zone
The delegation itself, read out of the root zone — serial 2026090900, on 2026-09-09. The registry section above is IANA's record of what .bosch was delegated to; this is what the root actually answers with when a resolver asks it where .bosch lives.
- Delegated to
a0.nic.bosch65.22.112.462a01:8840:6e::46a2.nic.bosch65.22.115.462a01:8840:71::46b0.nic.bosch65.22.113.462a01:8840:6f::46c0.nic.bosch65.22.114.462a01:8840:70::46
dsqueries: these servers know which names exist, not who registered them.- DNSSEC
- Signed — 1 DS record in the root
- key 60941RSA/SHA-256 · SHA-256
1DFBED7CA1EED1F0FC7C79BFAC760F2D796D423B13CFF9334A00745AFC7AE286
- key 60941RSA/SHA-256 · SHA-256
Ask the root yourself — no registry involved, and the same records this section was built from: dig +norec @a.root-servers.net bosch. NS and dig +norec @a.root-servers.net bosch. DS.