.adeka
Is .adeka a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.adeka is not contested. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. It is ADEKA Corporation.
A single-company brand extension: useful only to the applicant itself, with no open registrations and no resale market.
the applicant corporation itself and its subsidiaries, for corporate sites, product microsites and internal services; no third-party buyers
The 2012 applications making the most similar bet. Chosen by AI from every string in that round, without being told what happened to any of them.
Same bet: a Japanese B2B chemicals/materials maker whose coined corporate name means nothing to the public, applying for its own name as a closed identity that only needs to work for customers, suppliers and employees — not for search or recall.
Same bet: a specialty-chemicals company with an invented, consumer-opaque name betting that a defensive corporate namespace is worth it on supplier-facing credibility alone, with no category traffic to win or lose.
Same bet in shape — a mid-size industrial chemicals brand putting its primary identity on a short coined name — but it sits under a larger parent group rather than standing as the applicant's own top-level corporate identity.
What a .adeka domain is
.adeka is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under Brand. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list.
Is the .adeka domain extension real yet?
.adeka is not yet a domain extension you can register: nothing resolves under it, and no registrar sells names in it. It is a string applicants have put forward in the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, the process that decides whether it becomes one.
When can you buy a .adeka domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .adeka name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .adeka was .toray, delegated on 1 May 2015.
Is .adeka a real TLD?
Not yet. .adeka is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .adeka is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- ADEKA Corporation · first recordedICANN
- Band chosen: 10-29 (vanity/joke/narrow), low end. The verified record shows one applicant, ADEKA Corporation, confirmed on the ICANN Reveal Day list, with no category tag and no contention; the string is a corporate name rather than a generic word, which marks this as a dot-brand TLD whose only realistic registrant is the applicant and its affiliates. It is not in the 1-9 band because a dot-brand does have genuine end-use utility for its owner: by analogy with earlier-round corporate TLDs, some operators moved primary web properties or campaign sites onto their own extension and gained a trust and anti-phishing signal from a namespace nobody else can register in. It is not in the 30-49 band because there is no volume registration, no price-driven demand, and no aftermarket at all; an address here cannot be bought or resold by anyone outside the company, so brand strength accrues to the owner alone, not to the TLD as a market. By analogy with prior-round dot-brands generally, a meaningful share of such extensions saw little or no public use and some were later retired voluntarily, so the practical value over the next 5 years depends entirely on whether the operator actively migrates customer-facing properties onto it. Main market uncertainty: whether the company will use .adeka as a primary public identity (redirecting or hosting its main sites there) or hold it defensively with minimal content, which would leave the extension near the bottom of this band.