.design
Availability-check reliability and the registry servers we query for .design domains.
Our answer rate
Good Generic- Answer rate
- 100.0% of attempted checks returned a definitive answer
- Check volume
- Minimal (coarse band, not a count)
- Mostly answered by
- Registry (RDAP)
- Still available
- 83.4% of answered .design candidates were unregistered
- Last definitive answer
- 2026-08-25
Servers we query for .design
Public registry infrastructure — a whois, a
dig NS design, and one read of
IANA’s bootstrap file
return the same three values. Listed here for convenience.
- WHOIS host
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whois.nic.design - Authoritative nameservers
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b.nic.design37.209.194.10c.nic.design37.209.196.10x.nic.design156.154.172.82y.nic.design156.154.173.82z.nic.design156.154.174.82a.nic.design37.209.192.10 - RDAP endpoint
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https://rdap.nic.design/
What this measures: the share of our own availability checks that came back with a definitive answer. Nobody else publishes this, because nobody else is running bulk registry lookups at this scale and recording what came back.
What it does not measure: a registry’s uptime or quality. A low rate here can just as easily mean our requests are being rate-limited as it can mean anything about the registry itself.
These are current-state figures, not a history. We keep one record per domain, holding its most recent check — so a TLD that failed hundreds of times and then recovered reads as healthy here. A low rate means checks are failing now; a high one does not mean they always have.
Figures count domains checked, not queries — a domain checked six times counts once. Candidates we generated but never checked are excluded entirely; they are not failures. Snapshot rebuilt 2026-09-27 02:19:47.