.docomo
Is .docomo a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.docomo is not contested. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. It is NTT DOCOMO, INC..
A closed brand TLD for one Japanese mobile carrier: no public registrations, no resale market, value only as a corporate address.
a single brand owner (the applicant, a Japanese mobile carrier) and its subsidiaries, services and campaigns; 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 as .docomo: a coined, meaningless-on-its-own consumer mobile brand that a large telecom parent uses as the subscriber-facing identity for tens of millions of retail accounts, so the string only works if the carrier's mass-market brand (not its corporate name) is what customers recognize.
Also a short coined flagship mobile-service brand owned by a telecom group and carried on handsets, bills and retail stores, betting the same way that the consumer brand rather than the holding company is the primary identity worth a namespace.
Same category of carrier consumer brand put forward as a retail mobile identity, but the brand doubles as the group's own corporate name, so it leans slightly more corporate-identity and less pure consumer sub-brand than .docomo.
What a .docomo domain is
.docomo 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 .docomo domain extension real yet?
.docomo 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 .docomo domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .docomo name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .docomo was .movistar, delegated on 26 June 2015.
Is .docomo a real TLD?
Not yet. .docomo is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .docomo is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- NTT DOCOMO, INC. · first recordedICANN
- Band chosen: 10-29 (vanity/narrow). The verified-facts block records a single confirmed application from NTT DOCOMO, INC. and no category tag; the string is a company name, which marks this as a closed dot-brand TLD where only the operator and its affiliates would register names. It sits below the 30-49 band because registrations cannot happen at volume or on price and there is no aftermarket at all: nobody outside the company can buy a .docomo address, so resale value is structurally zero. It sits above the 1-9 band because, by analogy with dot-brands from the earlier round, a large consumer-facing company can and sometimes does use its brand TLD as a genuine primary identity for product sites, logins or campaigns, and a registry-controlled namespace carries a real trust and brand-recall signal within the company's home market (inference from analogy; usage figures for comparable brand TLDs are unknown here). Main market uncertainty: whether the operator migrates meaningful customer-facing properties onto the TLD over the next 5 years or keeps it as a defensive holding; by analogy, many earlier-round dot-brands were lightly used or retired, and a defensive-only outcome would place this at the bottom of the band.