.barclays Top Level Domain Reference

Contract Terms

• Base Contract Version: ICANN Base Registry Agreement
• Signing Date: 2015-01-29 (Thursday, January 29, 2015)
• Effective Date: 2015-01-29 (Thursday, January 29, 2015)
• Agreement Expiration: 2030-01-29 (Tuesday, January 29, 2030)
• Official ICANN Contract: View Agreement Documentation →

Wholesale Price Provisions and Amendments

Maximum initial and renewal wholesale registration fees are subject to published registry agreements.

Root Delegation Nameservers

• a.barclays.gtld-servers.net
  192.5.6.30, 2001:503:a83e:0:0:0:2:30
• b.barclays.gtld-servers.net
  192.33.14.30, 2001:503:231d:0:0:0:2:30
• c.barclays.gtld-servers.net
  192.26.92.30, 2001:503:83eb:0:0:0:0:30

Directory Registration Services

• WHOIS Server: whois.nic.barclays
• RDAP Endpoint: https://rdap.verisign.com/barclays
• IANA Delegation Record: iana.org/domains/root/db/barclays.html

Root Zone Infrastructure & Protocol Support

First delegated into the authoritative DNS root zone on 2015-01-29 (Thursday, January 29, 2015), .barclays belongs to the Wave V-VI (2012 New gTLD Program Cohort). Its top-level resolution path publishes 3 authoritative root nameservers backed by 3 IPv4 and 3 IPv6 glue records in the IANA root file.

For registration directory queries under RFC 7480 through 7484, .barclays supports both modern JSON-based Registration Data Access Protocol (RDAP) queries via https://rdap.verisign.com/barclays and legacy port-43 WHOIS queries via whois.nic.barclays.

Governance Model & Commercial Exposure

.barclays operates as a brand gtld under the ICANN Base Registry Agreement ICANN Registry Agreement managed by Barclays on the Verisign Shared Registration System technical backend.

Wholesale fee adjustments under .barclays remain subject to bilateral contractual price provisions documented above. Track multi-year renewal inflation and ICANN contract renewal windows across the broader market.