What is .philips?
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 .philips names for sale at any registrar.
.philips entered the DNS root zone on May 9, 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.
Koninklijke Philips N.V. also runs one other TLD, including .飞利浦.
On the technical side, .philips is served by 6 authoritative name servers, every one of them reachable over IPv6. It is also DNSSEC-signed: the root zone carries a DS record for .philips, which lets validating resolvers check its answers cryptographically. Registration data is published over RDAP and WHOIS (the WHOIS server is whois.nic.philips).
Same registry, other endings
1 other TLD shares this operator.
.philips FAQ
What country is .philips?
None. .philips is a generic top-level domain, so it isn't tied to any country.
Who owns the .philips domain extension?
Koninklijke Philips N.V. operates .philips as its registry, under a registry agreement with ICANN.
When was .philips created?
.philips was delegated to the DNS root zone on May 9, 2015.
Is .philips a valid domain?
Yes. .philips is an active top-level domain in the DNS root zone, delegated in 2015, so .philips addresses work in every browser.
Can I buy a .philips domain?
No. .philips is a brand TLD under ICANN Specification 13, so names are reserved for Koninklijke Philips N.V.
Is .philips DNSSEC-signed?
Yes, the root zone holds a DS record for .philips.
Sources
Data from IANA root zone version 2026102000. Last changed November 30, 2023. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.
