.lidl
Generic top-level domain
Nobody outside the registry can register here. .lidl is a brand TLD run by Schwarz Domains und Services GmbH & Co. KG, 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
- Schwarz Domains und Services GmbH & Co. KG
- Lookup
- RDAP + WHOISanswers for it
- DNSSEC
- Signed2 DS records in the root
- Level
- Secondmybrand.lidl
Check a name
Names under .lidl cannot be registered, but ds will still tell you what the registry says.
ds mybrand --tld lidlAdd --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 .lidl, 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 Schwarz Domains und Services GmbH & Co. KG — see the note at the top of this page.
How ds answers for it
RDAP first, WHOIS second — the same order for every TLD. .lidl has both, so RDAP answers and WHOIS is the fallback if it does not.
- RDAP
https://rdap.centralnic.com/lidlFrom IANA's bootstrap, refreshed when this page was built. The lookup ishttps://rdap.centralnic.com/lidl/domain/mybrand.lidl— a 404 means the name is free.- WHOIS
whois.nic.lidlQueried on port 43, from the bundled whois.json. The name is called free when the reply containsthe queried object does not exist— text matching, which is why RDAP is preferred where it exists.
ds mybrand --tld lidl --registry prints whichever of these answered. If a bundled WHOIS host has gone stale, IANA is asked who serves .lidl today. See Accuracy notes.
The registry
From IANA's delegation record for .lidl. .lidl is a generic TLD.
- Run by
- Schwarz Domains und Services GmbH & Co. KGBased in Germany. Delegated 2014-12-04, record last updated 2023-11-06.
- Registry site
- www.nic.lidlWhere the registry documents .lidl — its rules, its accredited registrars, and any launch phases. Not a shop: registries sell wholesale to registrars, not to you.
- Published services
rdap.centralnic.com · whois.nic.lidlWhat the registry itself tells IANA it runs. They agree with whatdsasks.- Name servers
a.nic.lidlb.nic.lidlc.nic.lidld.nic.lidlThe 4 authoritative servers for the .lidl 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 .lidl was delegated to; this is what the root actually answers with when a resolver asks it where .lidl lives.
- Delegated to
a.nic.lidl194.169.218.912001:67c:13cc::1:91b.nic.lidl185.24.64.912a04:2b00:13cc::1:91c.nic.lidl212.18.248.912a04:2b00:13ee::91d.nic.lidl212.18.249.912a04:2b00:13ff::91
dsqueries: these servers know which names exist, not who registered them.- DNSSEC
- Signed — 2 DS records in the root
- key 25851ECDSA P-256/SHA-256 · SHA-256
1AA0941E7D1538497268EE853423361989C3B0D9A8F2D3DA4E3F3BA0521E24E9 - key 44022ECDSA P-256/SHA-256 · SHA-256
031250E5D00E613D5044B944A8F5D9E88FA4F803EAE5F887C1670E0A8BCFFC97
- key 25851ECDSA P-256/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 lidl. NS and dig +norec @a.root-servers.net lidl. DS.