.alsok
Is .alsok a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.alsok is not contested. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. It is ALSOK CO., LTD..
A company-name string; useful only to that one company for its own sites, with no open market for anyone else.
a single corporate registrant using the string as its own brand namespace; not a buyer group in any open-market sense
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 as .alsok: an opaque four-letter acronym that means nothing outside one country but is a household name inside it, owned by a single membership/dispatched-response service operator putting its primary consumer identity on a string no outsider would ever type.
Same bet: a large Japanese corporation whose public identity is an unpronounceable romanized acronym, betting that domestic brand recognition alone carries a namespace that has no generic demand and no contest risk.
Same bet in form — a national services company's initialism serving as its whole brand — but its job is routing a tied agent/adviser network rather than fronting a mass consumer subscription, so the buyer's use of the namespace differs.
What a .alsok domain is
.alsok 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 .alsok domain extension real yet?
.alsok 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 .alsok domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .alsok name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .alsok was .adac, delegated on 26 January 2016.
Is .alsok a real TLD?
Not yet. .alsok is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .alsok is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- ALSOK CO., LTD. · first recordedICANN
- Band chosen: 1-9 (no realistic market). The string matches the sole confirmed applicant's corporate name (ALSOK CO., LTD., one application on the record, no contention), which by analogy to the many corporate-name strings from the 2012 round reads as a dot-brand: a closed namespace where the operator registers names for itself and third parties cannot buy addresses at all. Within the brand's own operations an address on the TLD has some end-use utility as a trust signal (analogy: the small set of 2012 dot-brands that moved their primary web presence onto their TLD), but that utility accrues to one registrant and does not produce aftermarket or resale value, which is half of what this scale measures. It is not in the 10-29 band because even vanity or joke TLDs have open registration and a thin stream of third-party buyers; a closed corporate-name string has none. It is not at the floor of the band because the operator itself may plausibly use it, so the value is small rather than zero. Main market uncertainty: whether the operator actually migrates customer-facing services onto the TLD (analogy: most 2012 dot-brands stayed defensive or dormant, a minority went primary), which would move the end-use half of the score within this band but not out of it. Analogy inferences throughout; registration counts, pricing and operator plans are unknown.