What is .barclays?
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 .barclays names for sale at any registrar.
.barclays entered the DNS root zone on January 24, 2015, 11 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.
Barclays Bank PLC also runs one other TLD, including .barclaycard.
On the technical side, .barclays 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 .barclays, which lets validating resolvers check its answers cryptographically. Registration data is published over RDAP and WHOIS (the WHOIS server is whois.nic.barclays).
Same registry, other endings
1 other TLD shares this operator.
.barclays FAQ
What country is .barclays?
None. .barclays is a generic top-level domain, so it isn't tied to any country.
Who owns the .barclays domain extension?
Barclays Bank PLC operates .barclays as its registry, under a registry agreement with ICANN.
When was .barclays created?
.barclays was delegated to the DNS root zone on January 24, 2015.
Is .barclays a valid domain?
Yes. .barclays is an active top-level domain in the DNS root zone, delegated in 2015, so .barclays addresses work in every browser.
Can I buy a .barclays domain?
No. .barclays is a brand TLD under ICANN Specification 13, so names are reserved for Barclays Bank PLC.
Is .barclays DNSSEC-signed?
Yes, the root zone holds a DS record for .barclays.
Sources
Data from IANA root zone version 2026102000. Last changed October 15, 2026. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.
