fontys.nl

.nl country-code · SURF B.V.

Found

TLD

.nl (country-code)

ICANN policies apply

no

Registrar

SURF B.V.

Registered

24 November 1996

Last changed

9 October 2025

Status

active

Registry nameservers

hermes.fontys.nl, ns1.surfnet.nl, ns2.surfnet.nl

RDAP server

https://rdap.sidn.nl/

Checks

• i

  .nl is a country-code TLD (ccTLD)

  Country-code TLD: governed by its local registry under national policy, not by an ICANN contract. Registrar accreditation, dispute resolution and RDAP/WHOIS rules are set by the registry.

  #1
• ✓ TLD delegated and signed #2

  .nl is delegated in the root zone and DNSSEC-signed.
• i

  Expiry date not published

  The registry does not publish the expiry date in RDAP. Check it with your registrar.

  #3
• i

  No transfer lock

  The domain has no transfer lock (status: active). A registrar lock protects against unauthorized transfers.

  #4
• ✓ Registry and delegation match #5

  The nameservers registered at the registry are the ones published in DNS.

hermes.fontys.nl, ns1.surfnet.nl, ns2.surfnet.nl

Found

Parent zone

nl

Delegation from

ns1.dns.nl (194.0.28.53)

NS at the parent

hermes.fontys.nl, ns1.surfnet.nl, ns2.surfnet.nl

NS in the zone

hermes.fontys.nl, ns1.surfnet.nl, ns2.surfnet.nl

Checks

• ✓ 3 nameservers #6

  Delegated to hermes.fontys.nl, ns1.surfnet.nl, ns2.surfnet.nl.
• ✓ Parent and zone agree #7

  The parent delegation and the zone's NS records list the same nameservers.
• ✓ Glue present and correct #8

  Glue is published for the nameservers inside the zone: hermes.fontys.nl.
• ✓ All names resolve #9

  Every nameserver name has an address and is not an alias.
• ✓ Nameservers in different networks #10

  The nameservers are spread over 3 IPv4 /24s and 2 IPv6 /48s.
• i

  All nameservers in one AS

  All nameserver addresses are announced by one network operator (AS1103 (SURFNET-NL - SURF B.V., NL): 5 addresses). An outage or attack on that network affects all nameservers; large anycast providers mitigate this, but a secondary DNS provider adds independence.

  #11
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  All nameserver names under .nl

  All nameserver names are under one TLD, so a problem with that TLD also makes the nameservers unreachable. Some operators use names under two TLDs for extra resilience.

  #12
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  Partly IPv6

  These nameservers have no IPv6 address: hermes.fontys.nl.

  #13

5 of 5 addresses answer authoritatively

Found

Checks

• ✓ All respond #14

  All 5 nameserver addresses answered.
• ✓ All authoritative #15

  Every responding nameserver answers authoritatively for the zone.
• ✓ No recursion #16

  The nameservers do not answer recursive queries for other domains.
• i

  Identifying string disclosed

  These nameservers answer version queries with a string that is not a version number: ns1.surfnet.nl: "This is a SURFnet nameserver - dns-beheer@surfnet.nl"; ns2.surfnet.nl: "This is a SURFnet nameserver - dns-beheer@surfnet.nl".

  #17
• ✓ Zone transfers refused #18

  No nameserver allows a zone transfer to the public.
• ✓ TCP supported #19

  All nameservers answer over TCP.
• ✓ EDNS supported #20

  All nameservers support EDNS(0).
• ✓ Public addresses #21

  All nameserver addresses are publicly routable.