ds

.mls

Generic top-level domain

RDAP + WHOISProperty

Register
—first year
Renew
—a year
Transfer
—to move it
Registrars
—quoting it
Lookup
RDAP + WHOISanswers for it
DNSSEC
Signed1 DS record in the root
Level
Secondmybrand.mls

Check a name

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

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 mls

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

No registrar in the price table bundled with ds quotes .mls, 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. See Prices for supplying your own table with --pricing-file.

Who can register

No eligibility rule is on file for .mls, 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. .mls has both, so RDAP answers and WHOIS is the fallback if it does not.

RDAP
https://rdap.mls.fury.ca/rdapFrom IANA's bootstrap, refreshed when this page was built. The lookup is https://rdap.mls.fury.ca/rdap/domain/mybrand.mls — a 404 means the name is free.
WHOIS
whois.nic.mlsQueried on port 43, from the bundled whois.json. The name is called free when the reply contains not found — text matching, which is why RDAP is preferred where it exists.

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

The registry

From IANA's delegation record for .mls. .mls is a generic TLD.

Run by
The Canadian Real Estate AssociationBased in Canada. Delegated 2015-08-20, record last updated 2026-01-23.
Published services
rdap.mls.fury.ca · whois.nic.mlsWhat the registry itself tells IANA it runs. They agree with what ds asks.
Name servers
a.ns.nic.mlsb.ns.nic.mlsc.ns.nic.mlsd.ns.nic.mlsThe 4 authoritative servers for the .mls 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.

  • generic IANA Root Zone Database types it "generic"
  • new-gtld ICANN delegated it on or after 2013-10-23, when the 2013 round opened — see delegated

What it is for

Our reading, not a fact — nothing in the root zone says what a TLD means. Hand-maintained in tld-categories.json.

  • Property Buying, selling, and renting places to live and work.

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

Delegated to
  • a.ns.nic.mls185.159.197.82620:10a:80aa::8
  • b.ns.nic.mls185.159.198.82620:10a:80ab::8
  • c.ns.nic.mls45.142.220.1012a0e:dbc0::101
  • d.ns.nic.mls185.159.199.82620:10a:80ac::8
The 4 name servers the root hands out for .mls, with the glue addresses that come with them — every one of them answers 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 27059RSA/SHA-256 · SHA-256F227379CEC6727F1FBC29B86B6512978894B2E9A3530064B31DCC82609C4A49D
Each one is a fingerprint of .mls'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 .mls 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 mls. NS and dig +norec @a.root-servers.net mls. DS.