.daihatsu
Is .daihatsu a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.daihatsu is not contested. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. It is Toyota.
A private brand namespace for one carmaker: useful only to that company, with no market for anyone else to buy into.
the applicant company itself and its affiliated dealers or regional units, for brand-controlled sites, campaigns and links; 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 almost exactly: a mid-size Japanese automaker's own corporate marque as a closed dot-brand, where the value is registry-controlled brand identity for a dealer/model namespace rather than any generic demand for the word.
Also a Japanese automotive marque sitting under a larger parent group rather than being the group's flagship name, so the string's worth depends entirely on the parent choosing to invest in the sub-marque's identity.
Identical structure — carmaker's house name as its own exclusive namespace — but the bet is made from a global flagship position, where the brand carries the traffic on its own instead of needing the parent's backing.
What a .daihatsu domain is
.daihatsu 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 .daihatsu domain extension real yet?
.daihatsu 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 .daihatsu domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .daihatsu name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .daihatsu was .suzuki, delegated on 2 July 2014.
Is .daihatsu a real TLD?
Not yet. .daihatsu is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .daihatsu is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- Toyota · first recordedICANN
“DMCL2657T-T12908 · Daihatsu Motor Co., Ltd. · primary”ICANN
- Band chosen: 10-29 (vanity/narrow). The verified record shows a single confirmed application from Daihatsu Motor Co., Ltd., which places this string in the dot-brand pattern: the registry operator is the only expected registrant, and names are allocated internally rather than sold. Over the next 5 years an address on .daihatsu has real but narrow end-use utility to that one company (a trusted, brand-controlled namespace for product, dealer, regional and campaign sites) and essentially no resale or aftermarket value, since no third party can acquire a name. It is not in the 30-49 band because there are no volume registrations, no price-driven demand and no aftermarket at all; it is above the 1-9 band because a global vehicle brand can plausibly put the namespace to genuine primary-identity use for its own properties. By analogy (flagged as analogy): automaker dot-brands from the 2012 round such as .toyota, .honda, .nissan, .audi and .bmw showed mixed outcomes, ranging from live redirect or regional use to near-dormancy, and none that we know of produced a third-party market; .daihatsu is likely to follow the same arc. Main market uncertainty: whether the company actually migrates customer-facing or dealer properties onto the TLD, or holds it defensively with minimal use, which decides whether it sits at the top or bottom of this band.