.dunlop
Is .dunlop a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.dunlop is not contested. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. It is Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd..
A closed brand namespace for one tyre and sports-goods company; useful to its owner, but there is no market for anyone else.
the applicant itself and its product lines, dealers and regional sites; 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 exactly: a legacy consumer tyre marque that is a licensed/acquired sub-brand inside a larger tyre group rather than the group's own corporate name, so the string has to carry a product-brand identity that the parent company controls and markets separately.
Same bet: a single company putting its primary tyre-brand identity on a famous surname-derived trademark, where value rests entirely on the mark's recognition and on the registry being closed to one owner.
Same bet at the parent level — one manufacturer's exclusive trademark string, bought to own the brand's namespace rather than to serve any outside registrant, differing only in that it is the corporate name rather than a marque held beneath it.
What a .dunlop domain is
.dunlop 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 .dunlop domain extension real yet?
.dunlop 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 .dunlop domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .dunlop name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .dunlop was .firestone, delegated on 5 December 2015.
Is .dunlop a real TLD?
Not yet. .dunlop is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .dunlop is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd. · first recordedICANN
“51102687T-T58914 · Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd. · primary”ICANN
- Band chosen: 10-29 (vanity/narrow). The verified record shows a single confirmed application from Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd. with no contention, which matches the profile of a closed brand TLD: the registry operator is the only realistic registrant, so addresses carry no resale value and no public registration volume. It sits above the 1-9 band because a brand TLD does have genuine primary-identity utility for its one buyer, and by analogy some corporate dot-brands from the prior round moved product, campaign or regional sites onto their own string and gained a trust and anti-phishing signal from a namespace only they can register in. It does not reach 30-49 because that band assumes open registrations on volume or price and at least a thin aftermarket; a closed brand string offers neither, and by analogy a meaningful share of prior-round dot-brands were used only for redirects or were later retired. Scored assuming delegation and operation. Main market uncertainty: whether the operator will adopt the string as a primary identity for consumer-facing sites across its tyre and sporting-goods lines, or keep it as a defensive, redirect-only asset; the Dunlop name's history of being associated with more than one company in different regions and product categories (my own knowledge, not on the record) could also limit worldwide use if trademark control is not unified.