.ki

Country-code top-level domain for Kiribati

WHOISsold by 1 registrar

Register: $1575.00first year
Renew: $1875.00a year
Transfer: $1575.00to move it
Registrars: 1quoting it
Lookup: WHOISanswers for it
DNSSEC: Signed1 DS record in the root
Level: Secondmybrand.ki

Check a name

One command, straight against the registry — no account, no page to load.

Name

Fills the command and the registrar links below in with your own name. The page is static — nothing is looked up here, and nothing you type leaves the browser.

ds mybrand --tld ki

Add --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

Every published quote in the bundled table, cheapest registration first. The figure ds prints beside .ki is the mean of the registration column — $1575.00, which undercuts 2% of the 881 priced TLDs.

Registrar	Register	Renew	Transfer
101domain.com	$1575.00	$1875.00	$1575.00
Mean — what `ds` prints	$1575.00	$1875.00	$1575.00

List prices in US dollars, bundled with the binary and last regenerated 2026-09-09. Promotions, ICANN fees, taxes and premium names all move the real number, and a registry may decline to sell you the name at all. See Prices.

Where to register

One registrar in the bundled table publishes a registration price for .ki, which is evidence it sells it — nobody prices what they cannot sell. Cheapest first, exactly as ds mybrand --tld ki --where prints them.

101domain.com$1575.00

Put a name in the box above and each link becomes that registrar's search for mybrand.ki, where it publishes one. This list is what the price table knows, not the whole market — see Where to register.

Who can register

No eligibility rule is on file for .ki, which is not the same as a promise that it is open: the list is hand-maintained and covers the restricted TLDs a registrar is likely to offer you. Check the registry's own page before counting on a name. 81 TLDs do carry a rule — see Who can register.

How `ds` answers for it

RDAP first, WHOIS second — the same order for every TLD. .ki has no RDAP service, so the answer comes from WHOIS text on port 43.

WHOIS: whois.nic.kiQueried on port 43, from the bundled whois.json. The name is called free when the reply contains the queried object does not exist — text matching, which is why RDAP is preferred where it exists.

ds mybrand --tld ki --registry prints whichever of these answered. If a bundled WHOIS host has gone stale, IANA is asked who serves .ki today. See Accuracy notes.

The registry

From IANA's delegation record for .ki. .ki is a country-code TLD.

Run by: Ministry of Information, Communications and Transport (MICT)Based in Kiribati. Delegated 1995-04-19, record last updated 2024-02-06.
Registry site: www.nic.kiWhere the registry documents .ki — its rules, its accredited registrars, and any launch phases. Not a shop: registries sell wholesale to registrars, not to you.
Published services: whois.nic.kiWhat the registry itself tells IANA it runs. They agree with what ds asks.
Name servers: anycastdns1.nic.kianycastdns2.nic.kipch.nic.kiThe 3 authoritative servers for the .ki zone — what the root delegates to. Nothing ds queries 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.

country-code IANA Root Zone Database types it "country-code"

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 .ki was delegated to; this is what the root actually answers with when a resolver asks it where .ki lives.

Delegated to: pch.nic.ki204.61.216.262001:500:14:6026:ad::1
anycastdns1.nic.ki185.38.108.1082a00:fea0:dead::beef
anycastdns2.nic.ki185.28.194.194
The 3 name servers the root hands out for .ki, with the glue addresses that come with them — 2 of them answer over IPv6. None of this is what ds queries: these servers know which names exist, not who registered them.
DNSSEC: Signed — 1 DS record in the root
key 59540RSA/SHA-256 · SHA-256FD3B27E5C171B883FE2815DDE7FBBE7F2E5AF826BFF47C33B5970F53E2A855DE
Each one is a fingerprint of .ki's own signing key, published by the root and signed with the root's key — which is how a resolver that trusts only one key can prove an answer under .ki came from its registry and was not tampered with in transit. It says nothing about who owns a name or whether one is free.

Ask the root yourself — no registry involved, and the same records this section was built from: dig +norec @a.root-servers.net ki. NS and dig +norec @a.root-servers.net ki. DS.