knmi.nl

.nl country-code · SURF B.V.

Found

TLD

.nl (country-code)

ICANN policies apply

no

Registrar

SURF B.V.

Registered

24 February 1992

Last changed

5 January 2026

Status

active

Registry nameservers

ns1.ssc-campus.nl, ns1.surfnet.nl, ns2.ssc-campus.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.
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  Expiry date not published

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

  #3
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  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.

ns1.ssc-campus.nl, ns1.surfnet.nl, ns2.ssc-campus.nl, ns2.surfnet.nl

Found

Parent zone

nl

Delegation from

ns1.dns.nl (194.0.28.53)

NS at the parent

ns1.ssc-campus.nl, ns1.surfnet.nl, ns2.ssc-campus.nl, ns2.surfnet.nl

NS in the zone

ns1.ssc-campus.nl, ns1.surfnet.nl, ns2.ssc-campus.nl, ns2.surfnet.nl

Checks

• ✓ 4 nameservers #6

  Delegated to ns1.ssc-campus.nl, ns1.surfnet.nl, ns2.ssc-campus.nl, ns2.surfnet.nl.
• ✓ Parent and zone agree #7

  The parent delegation and the zone's NS records list the same nameservers.
• ✓ No glue needed #8

  All nameservers are outside the zone, so no glue records are needed.
• ✓ 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 3 IPv6 /48s.
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  All nameservers in one AS

  All nameserver addresses are announced by one network operator (AS1103 (SURFNET-NL - SURF B.V., NL): 8 addresses). An outage or attack on that network affects all nameservers; large anycast providers mitigate this, but a secondary DNS provider adds independence.

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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
• ✓ All reachable over IPv6 #13

  Every nameserver has an IPv6 address.

8 of 8 addresses answer authoritatively

Found

Checks

• ✓ All respond #14

  All 8 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.
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  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.

19 records at the apex

Found

Read from

131.224.2.135:53

Checks

• ✓ TTLs within range #32

  TTLs: A 8h, MX 5m, NS 8h. The NS TTL at the parent is 1h and in the zone 8h; resolvers may use either.
• ✓ No CNAME at the apex #33

  The zone apex has no CNAME record.
• ✓ No wildcard #34

  Names that don't exist return NXDOMAIN.
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  No CAA records

  Without CAA records any certificate authority may issue certificates for this domain. A CAA record limits issuance to the CAs you use.

  #35