.oracle
Generic top-level domain
Nobody outside the registry can register here. .oracle is a brand TLD run by Oracle Corporation, 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
- Oracle Corporation
- Lookup
- RDAP + WHOISanswers for it
- DNSSEC
- Signed2 DS records in the root
- Level
- Secondmybrand.oracle
Check a name
Names under .oracle cannot be registered, but ds will still tell you what the registry says.
ds mybrand --tld oracleAdd --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 .oracle, 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 Oracle Corporation — see the note at the top of this page.
How ds answers for it
RDAP first, WHOIS second — the same order for every TLD. .oracle 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.oracle— a 404 means the name is free.- WHOIS
whois.nic.oracleQueried 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 oracle --registry prints whichever of these answered. If a bundled WHOIS host has gone stale, IANA is asked who serves .oracle today. See Accuracy notes.
The registry
From IANA's delegation record for .oracle. .oracle is a generic TLD.
- Run by
- Oracle CorporationBased in United States of America. Delegated 2015-01-15, record last updated 2024-02-09.
- Published services
rdap.identitydigital.services · whois.nic.oracleWhat the registry itself tells IANA it runs. They agree with whatdsasks.- Name servers
a0.nic.oraclea2.nic.oracleb0.nic.oraclec0.nic.oracleThe 4 authoritative servers for the .oracle 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 .oracle was delegated to; this is what the root actually answers with when a resolver asks it where .oracle lives.
- Delegated to
a0.nic.oracle65.22.84.252a01:8840:52::25a2.nic.oracle65.22.87.252a01:8840:55::25b0.nic.oracle65.22.85.252a01:8840:53::25c0.nic.oracle65.22.86.252a01:8840:54::25
dsqueries: these servers know which names exist, not who registered them.- DNSSEC
- Signed — 2 DS records in the root
- key 6291RSA/SHA-256 · SHA-256
9F74ECCB6080A089661309A8AE8F82146D0EE4CC7CA96F01F62AE47F76368F2A - key 51169RSA/SHA-256 · SHA-256
43A2FD7B6DF137824C6EE5B145AD5FA8664600165EF0C9772B1D286BCDA63873
- key 6291RSA/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 oracle. NS and dig +norec @a.root-servers.net oracle. DS.