.cnp
Is .cnp a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.cnp is not contested. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. It is CNP ASSURANCES.
A single-company brand extension: useful only to its applicant, with no open registrations or resale market expected.
the applicant company itself and its internal brands, for own-use addresses such as customer portals, campaigns and product lines; not a space outsiders can register in
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.
The same bet almost exactly: a short, opaque initialism owned by a large French insurer, where the string carries no generic meaning and only works as the company's own closed identity for customer-facing addresses.
Another French mutual insurer putting its acronym on the root — a string whose entire value rests on existing policyholder recognition of the abbreviation, with no outside demand for the letters themselves.
An insurer betting on a three-letter contraction of its own name while also applying for the full-name string alongside it, the same abbreviation-plus-longform pairing CNP made with .cnpassurances.
What a .cnp domain is
.cnp 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 .cnp domain extension real yet?
.cnp 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 .cnp domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .cnp name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .cnp was .axa, delegated on 19 March 2014.
Is .cnp a real TLD?
Not yet. .cnp is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .cnp is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- CNP ASSURANCES · first recordedICANN
- Band chosen: 10-29 (vanity/narrow). The record shows a single confirmed application by CNP ASSURANCES, with a companion .cnpassurances application marked as a replacement, which reads as a corporate-brand string rather than a generic one; the word "assurances" is French for insurance, so by analogy this looks like a financial-services dot-brand. By analogy with 2012-round dot-brands (bank and insurer strings among them), such TLDs are closed to the public: no third-party registrations, no aftermarket, and value exists only as an owned, controlled namespace for the operator's own services. It is not in the 30-49 band because there are no volume registrations or price-driven demand at all, and no aftermarket of any thickness. It is above the 1-9 band because a dot-brand can serve as a genuine, serious primary identity for its owner (short, controlled customer-facing addresses and anti-phishing positioning), and some 2012-round brand TLDs did move real traffic onto their own strings (analogy); many others saw little public use (analogy, no counts asserted). Main market uncertainty: whether the operator actually migrates customer-facing properties to .cnp within five years or holds it defensively; a three-letter brand abbreviation suits short service addresses, but the abbreviation also carries unrelated meanings elsewhere, and whether that matters in practice is unknown.