.cna
Is .cna a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.cna is not contested. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. It is MEDIACORP PTE. LTD..
A single-company brand string: useful to its owner as a corporate address, but with no open market for anyone else.
the applicant's own brand and its news/media properties, as a corporate-controlled namespace; not for the general public or domain investors
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.
Identical bet: a national broadcaster's own three-letter call-sign acronym, applied for by that broadcaster to hold its corporate and news-property addresses as a closed namespace, where value comes entirely from the owner's willingness to move its own identity onto it rather than from any outside registrant.
Same bet again: a public-service broadcaster's acronym mark, meaningless as a dictionary string but instantly readable as that one organisation, so the string's only job is to be the broadcaster's own branded address space for news verticals and short links.
Also a three-letter broadcaster acronym taken by the broadcaster itself for a single-registrant namespace, but the bet leans on a commercial free-to-air entertainment identity rather than a news-channel identity, so the end-use case is thinner even though the structure is the same.
What a .cna domain is
.cna 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 .cna domain extension real yet?
.cna 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 .cna domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .cna name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .cna was .nhk, delegated on 4 June 2014.
Is .cna a real TLD?
Not yet. .cna is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .cna is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- MEDIACORP PTE. LTD. · first recordedICANN
- Band chosen: 10-29 (vanity/joke/narrow). The record shows one confirmed applicant, Mediacorp Pte. Ltd., and the string is a three-letter acronym that reads as a corporate/media brand mark rather than a dictionary word, so by analogy with earlier dot-brand delegations it is most likely to be run as a closed, single-registrant namespace. Not the band above (30-49): usable-but-limited TLDs still take third-party registrations at volume or on price, whereas a closed brand string has no public registration channel and no aftermarket at all. Not the band below (1-9): the string does have a realistic, if singular, use; a serious organization can, and in analogous cases has, used a brand TLD as a primary identity for apps, news verticals, and short campaign links, and in a news/media context a short branded address has genuine end-use utility. Analogy, flagged: many brand TLDs from the earlier round saw little visible use and a meaningful share were later retired, which is why the score sits in the lower half of the band rather than near its top; a minority of media and consumer brands did adopt theirs visibly. A further qualitative drag is that this three-letter string is shared with unrelated acronyms in other sectors, so any brand signal is diluted outside the applicant's home audience. Main market uncertainty: whether the operator actually migrates primary digital properties onto the string or treats it as defensive, which is the difference between a working brand identity and an unused delegation.