What is .stada?
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 .stada names for sale at any registrar.
.stada entered the DNS root zone on September 13, 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.
On the technical side, .stada 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 .stada, which lets validating resolvers check its answers cryptographically. Registration data is published over RDAP and WHOIS (the WHOIS server is whois.nic.stada).
.stada FAQ
What country is .stada?
None. .stada is a generic top-level domain, so it isn't tied to any country.
Who owns the .stada domain extension?
STADA Arzneimittel AG operates .stada as its registry, under a registry agreement with ICANN.
When was .stada created?
.stada was delegated to the DNS root zone on September 13, 2015.
Is .stada a valid domain?
Yes. .stada is an active top-level domain in the DNS root zone, delegated in 2015, so .stada addresses work in every browser.
Can I buy a .stada domain?
No. .stada is a brand TLD under ICANN Specification 13, so names are reserved for STADA Arzneimittel AG.
Is .stada DNSSEC-signed?
Yes, the root zone holds a DS record for .stada.
Sources
Data from IANA root zone version 2026102000. Last changed June 11, 2025. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.
