What is .hdfcbank?
Brand TLDs operate under Specification 13 of ICANN's registry agreement. It lets a trademark owner keep every second-level name for itself, so you won't find .hdfcbank names for sale at any registrar.
.hdfcbank entered the DNS root zone on February 11, 2016, 10 years ago. It came out of ICANN's New gTLD Program, the 2012 application round that grew the root from 22 generic TLDs to well over a thousand.
HDFC BANK LIMITED also runs one other TLD, including .hdfc.
On the technical side, .hdfcbank is served by 4 authoritative name servers, every one of them reachable over IPv6. It is also DNSSEC-signed: the root zone carries a DS record for .hdfcbank, which lets validating resolvers check its answers cryptographically. Registration data is published over RDAP and WHOIS (the WHOIS server is whois.nic.hdfcbank).
Same registry, other endings
1 other TLD shares this operator.
.hdfcbank FAQ
What country is .hdfcbank?
None. .hdfcbank is a generic top-level domain, so it isn't tied to any country.
Who owns the .hdfcbank domain extension?
HDFC BANK LIMITED operates .hdfcbank as its registry, under a registry agreement with ICANN.
When was .hdfcbank created?
.hdfcbank was delegated to the DNS root zone on February 11, 2016.
Is .hdfcbank a valid domain?
Yes. .hdfcbank is an active top-level domain in the DNS root zone, delegated in 2016, so .hdfcbank addresses work in every browser.
Can I buy a .hdfcbank domain?
No. .hdfcbank is a brand TLD under ICANN Specification 13, so names are reserved for HDFC BANK LIMITED.
Is .hdfcbank DNSSEC-signed?
Yes, the root zone holds a DS record for .hdfcbank.
Sources
Data from IANA root zone version 2026102000. Last changed August 23, 2023. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.
