.alicloud
Is .alicloud a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.alicloud is not contested. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. It is Alibaba.
A private brand namespace for one cloud provider; useful to its owner, but there is no public market or resale value.
the applicant's own cloud business and its affiliated product teams, for first-party service, console and documentation addresses; not open to the public
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 exactly: a conglomerate's house-prefix welded to a service-category noun so one corporate division's product line carries its own namespace, controlled wholly by the parent and useless to anyone else.
The same bet of a commerce giant putting its cloud-infrastructure division's identity on a TLD aimed at developer-customers rather than consumers, differing only in being an acronym instead of a prefix-plus-noun compound.
The same word-formation bet — parent brand plus plain category noun — where the string only works if the parent is already the recognized name in that category, but the buyer is a retail bank rather than a platform division selling to builders.
What a .alicloud domain is
.alicloud 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 .alicloud domain extension real yet?
.alicloud 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 .alicloud domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .alicloud name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .alicloud was .alipay, delegated on 16 January 2016.
Is .alicloud a real TLD?
Not yet. .alicloud is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .alicloud is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- Alibaba · first recordedICANN
“BABA2643T-T84292 · CLOUD INTELLIGENCE ASSETS HOLDING (SINGAPORE) PRIVATE LIMITED · primary”ICANN
- Band chosen: 10-29 (vanity/narrow). The string is a single-applicant brand term tied to a cloud-services business (applicant: Cloud Intelligence Assets Holding (Singapore) Private Limited, status confirmed, per the facts block), so the only realistic registrant is the brand owner and its affiliates; third parties cannot buy addresses and there is no aftermarket, which is why it sits below the 30-49 band (that band requires public registrations at some volume). It sits above the 1-9 band because a cloud provider can plausibly use a brand TLD for primary-identity addresses (consoles, documentation, regional endpoints) where a short, trusted namespace has real anti-phishing and routing utility; by analogy (flagged as analogy), a few 2012-round brand TLDs operated by large technology firms did move first-party properties onto their own TLD, while many other brand TLDs stayed dormant or were later retired. Within the band, mid-band rather than higher because brand TLDs as a class have mostly been held defensively rather than used as the customer-facing default, and because the owning group already has related brand strings and established second-level identities that reduce the pull to migrate. Main market uncertainty: whether the operator uses the TLD as a live customer-facing namespace (service endpoints, docs, status pages) or holds it purely defensively; actual usage in the first years, not the string itself, is what would move this.