What is .visa?
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 .visa names for sale at any registrar.
.visa entered the DNS root zone on July 28, 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.
On the technical side, .visa 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 .visa, which lets validating resolvers check its answers cryptographically. Registration data is published over RDAP and WHOIS (the WHOIS server is whois.nic.visa).
.visa FAQ
What country is .visa?
None. .visa is a generic top-level domain, so it isn't tied to any country.
Who owns the .visa domain extension?
Visa Worldwide Pte. Limited operates .visa as its registry, under a registry agreement with ICANN.
When was .visa created?
.visa was delegated to the DNS root zone on July 28, 2016.
Is .visa a valid domain?
Yes. .visa is an active top-level domain in the DNS root zone, delegated in 2016, so .visa addresses work in every browser.
Can I buy a .visa domain?
No. .visa is a brand TLD under ICANN Specification 13, so names are reserved for Visa Worldwide Pte. Limited.
Is .visa DNSSEC-signed?
Yes, the root zone holds a DS record for .visa.
Sources
Data from IANA root zone version 2026102000. Last changed November 15, 2024. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.
