.samsung

Generic top-level domain

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.samsung

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 samsung

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

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

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

The registry

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

Run by: SAMSUNG SDS CO., LTDBased in Korea (the Republic of). Delegated 2014-10-30, record last updated 2026-06-01.
Registry site: samsungregistry.comWhere the registry documents .samsung — its rules, its accredited registrars, and any launch phases. Not a shop: registries sell wholesale to registrars, not to you.
Published services: nic.samsung · whois.nic.samsungWhat the registry itself tells IANA it runs. They agree with what ds asks.
Name servers: n1-a1.aka-ns.netn1-a13.aka-ns.netn1-a20.aka-ns.netn1-a26.aka-ns.netn1-a4.aka-ns.netn1-a7.aka-ns.netns1.dns.samsungThe 7 authoritative servers for the .samsung 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

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

Delegated to: ns1.dns.samsung140.238.4.102603:c022:8004:5d05:ca27:7608:ff55:38fe
n1-a1.aka-ns.net23.2.10.12600:1405:4800::1
n1-a4.aka-ns.net23.59.162.12600:1405:7800::1
n1-a7.aka-ns.net96.16.208.12600:1405:a800::1
n1-a13.aka-ns.net184.29.150.12600:1405:400::1
n1-a20.aka-ns.net184.29.154.12600:1405:2400::1
n1-a26.aka-ns.net184.29.157.12600:1405:3c00::1
The 7 name servers the root hands out for .samsung, 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 21511RSA/SHA-256 · SHA-256C22A5C39F5E18AD8AE2ADC115F7A0CD8CD7C072BCF5A6FDE16E07B1C4D392686
Each one is a fingerprint of .samsung'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 .samsung 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 samsung. NS and dig +norec @a.root-servers.net samsung. DS.