ds

.weather

Generic top-level domain

RDAP

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

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 weather

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 .weather, 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 .weather, 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. .weather has an RDAP service and no WHOIS entry, so every answer is authoritative RDAP.

RDAP
https://rdap.nic.weatherFrom IANA's bootstrap, refreshed when this page was built. The lookup is https://rdap.nic.weather/domain/mybrand.weather — a 404 means the name is free.

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

The registry

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

Run by
The Weather Company, LLCBased in United States of America. Delegated 2015-12-23, record last updated 2026-03-01.
Registry site
www.weather.comWhere the registry documents .weather — its rules, its accredited registrars, and any launch phases. Not a shop: registries sell wholesale to registrars, not to you.
Published services
rdap.nic.weatherWhat the registry itself tells IANA it runs. They agree with what ds asks.
Name servers
a.nic.weatherb.nic.weatherc.nic.weatherns4.dns.nic.weatherns5.dns.nic.weatherns6.dns.nic.weatherThe 6 authoritative servers for the .weather 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 .weather was delegated to; this is what the root actually answers with when a resolver asks it where .weather lives.

Delegated to
  • a.nic.weather37.209.192.92001:dcd:1::9
  • b.nic.weather37.209.194.92001:dcd:2::9
  • c.nic.weather37.209.196.92001:dcd:3::9
  • ns4.dns.nic.weather156.154.156.1782610:a1:1074::b2
  • ns5.dns.nic.weather156.154.157.1782610:a1:1075::b2
  • ns6.dns.nic.weather156.154.158.1782610:a1:1076::b2
The 6 name servers the root hands out for .weather, 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 1249RSA/SHA-256 · SHA-25696765E88A1B12CCE10C5C67934B10344AD4E5D63588E4B9D442FC533C8224F01
Each one is a fingerprint of .weather'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 .weather 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 weather. NS and dig +norec @a.root-servers.net weather. DS.