ds

.pg

Country-code top-level domain for Papua New Guinea

RDAP + WHOIS

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.pg

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 pg

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 .pg, 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 .pg, 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. .pg has both, so RDAP answers and WHOIS is the fallback if it does not.

RDAP
https://rdap.nic.pgFrom IANA's bootstrap, refreshed when this page was built. The lookup is https://rdap.nic.pg/domain/mybrand.pg — a 404 means the name is free.
WHOIS
whois.nic.pgQueried 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 pg --registry prints whichever of these answered. If a bundled WHOIS host has gone stale, IANA is asked who serves .pg today. See Accuracy notes.

The registry

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

Run by
PNG DNS Administration, Vice Chancellors Office, The Papua New Guinea University of TechnologyBased in Papua New Guinea. Delegated 1991-09-26, record last updated 2025-08-22.
Published services
rdap.nic.pg · whois.nic.pgWhat the registry itself tells IANA it runs. They agree with what ds asks.
Name servers
dns.pch.pggransy1.nic.pggransy2.nic.pguot.nic.pgThe 4 authoritative servers for the .pg 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 .pg was delegated to; this is what the root actually answers with when a resolver asks it where .pg lives.

Delegated to
  • dns.pch.pg204.61.216.1522001:500:14:6152:ad::1
  • uot.nic.pg202.1.32.125
  • gransy1.nic.pg185.28.194.1942a00:fea0:dead::beef
  • gransy2.nic.pg185.38.108.108
The 4 name servers the root hands out for .pg, 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 23985Ed25519 · SHA-2561435D979DCAC97970F142938CE1BE5D6AF7AC9FE75A8B8254FA1EB9251C7C37F
Each one is a fingerprint of .pg'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 .pg 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 pg. NS and dig +norec @a.root-servers.net pg. DS.