.verisign

Brand · VeriSign, Inc.

.verisign

🔒 Signed (DS in the root)

Category: Brand
IANA type: Generic
Manager: VeriSign, Inc.
Script: Latin
Delegated: 2015-11-25
DS in root: 1 record(s)
Algorithm: 13 · ECDSA P-256
IDN names: yes, 97 scripts/languages
WHOIS: whois.nic.verisign
RDAP: yes

Checked 26 Oct 2026 by our weekly check.

Is a .verisign name registered?

Looked up from your browser in the registry's RDAP service; if that does not answer, in DNS. Nothing is stored on dnssec.in.

What this means

The root zone holds a DS record for .verisign, so the extension is signed and anchored. A domain under .verisign can use DNSSEC with a full chain of trust: it needs to be signed at its DNS host and have its own DS at the registrar. .verisign is a brand extension: only VeriSign, Inc. registers names under it. See popular sites on brand extensions.

IDN names under .verisign

The registry publishes IDN tables at IANA for 97 scripts or languages, so names can use these characters (stored as xn-- in the DNS):

Arabic Script
Armenian Script
Avestan Script
Azerbaijani Language
Balinese Script
Bamum Script
Batak Script
Belarusian Language
Bengali Script
Bopomofo Script
Brahmi Script
Buginese Script
Buhid Script
Bulgarian Language
Carian Script
Cham Script
Cherokee Script
Chinese Language
Coptic Script
Cyrillic Script
Devanagari Script
Egyptian hieroglyphs Script
Ethiopic Script
Georgian (Mkhedruli and Mtavruli) Script
Glagolitic Script
Greek Language
Greek Script
Gujarati Script
Gurmukhi Script
Han Script
Hangul Script
Hanunoo Script
Hebrew Script
Hiragana Script
Imperial Aramaic Script
Inscriptional Pahlavi Script
Inscriptional Parthian Script
Japanese Language
Javanese Script
Kaithi Script
Kannada Script
Katakana Script
Kayah Li Script
Kharoshthi Script
Khmer Script
Korean Language
Kurdish Language
Lao Script
Latin Script
Lepcha Script
Limbu Script
Lisu Script
Lycian Script
Lydian Script
Macedonian Language
Malayalam Script
Mandaic Script
Meitei Mayek Script
Mongolian Script
Myanmar Script
New Tai Lue Script
N’Ko Script
Ogham Script
Ol Chiki Script
Old Persian Script
Old South Arabian Script
Old Turkic Script
Oriya Script
Phags-pa Script
Phoenician Script
Polish Language
Rejang Script
Romanian Language
Runic Script
Russian Language
Samaritan Script
Saurashtra Script
Sinhala Script
Sumero-Akkadian cuneiform Script
Sundanese Script
Syloti Nagri Script
Syriac Script
Tagalog Script
Tagbanwa Script
Tai Le Script
Tai Tham Script
Tai Viet Script
Tamil Script
Telugu Script
Thaana Script
Thai Script
Tibetan Script
Tifinagh Script
Ukrainian Language
Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics Script
Vai Script
Yi Script

Length

DNS limits are the same everywhere: each label is 1 to 63 characters, the whole name at most 253, letters, digits and hyphens, not starting or ending with a hyphen. IDN labels count their xn-- form, so fewer native characters fit. A registry can set a higher minimum (often 2 or 3 characters) or reserve short names: that is in its own policy.

WHOIS and RDAP

RDAP (the JSON successor to WHOIS) answers at https://tld-rdap.verisign.com/verisign/v1/. Classic WHOIS (port 43) answers at whois.nic.verisign. For most gTLD names the owner's contact details are redacted for privacy; the registrar, dates and status are public.

Lifecycle and drop

Names under this extension are held by the brand owner. They are not sold to the public, so there is no public expiry or drop cycle.

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