.fanuc
Is .fanuc a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.fanuc is not contested. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. It is FANUC CORPORATION.
A single-company brand namespace: useful to that company for its own sites, with no public registrations or resale market.
the applicant company and its subsidiaries, distributors and product lines, for internal and customer-facing addresses under its own name
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 factory-automation and drive-controls maker putting its own industrial name on a dot-brand whose audience is engineers and integrators, not consumers, so the string only has to be recognized inside a supply chain to work.
Same bet of a Japanese capital-equipment manufacturer using its single corporate name as its whole identity, where the value rests on dealer/industrial-buyer recognition rather than any consumer search demand for the word.
Also a self-named dot-brand for a precision industrial components maker that is invisible to the public, though it is a founder surname rather than a coined contraction, so the string reads as a family firm instead of an engineered name.
What a .fanuc domain is
.fanuc 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 .fanuc domain extension real yet?
.fanuc 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 .fanuc domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .fanuc name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .fanuc was .rexroth, delegated on 24 December 2015.
Is .fanuc a real TLD?
Not yet. .fanuc is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .fanuc is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- FANUC CORPORATION · first recordedICANN
- Band chosen: 10-29 (vanity/narrow). .fanuc is a corporate-name string; the record shows a single confirmed applicant, FANUC CORPORATION, and no category tag, which is consistent with a closed brand TLD where the operator is the only registrant. Why not the band above (30-49): that band assumes registrations happening at volume or on price and at least a thin aftermarket; a brand TLD has no third-party registrations and no resale market, so address value to anyone other than the brand owner is effectively nil, and the TLD's value is confined to the owner's own identity and security posture. Why not the band below (1-9): the string maps to a well-known industrial-automation and robotics company, so there is a realistic, if narrow, primary-identity use for the owner (product, regional, support and partner addresses), which is more than a no-market string. By analogy (flagged as analogy), brand TLDs from the earlier new-gTLD round split into a minority that actively migrated web presence or used the space for product and regional sites, and a larger share that stayed dormant or were later withdrawn; the typical outcome is limited, owner-only use. Main market uncertainty: whether the company actually migrates customer-facing properties and partner channels onto the string or treats it as a defensive, dormant asset — the former would justify the top of this band, the latter the bottom. Specific adoption figures for comparable brand TLDs are unknown to me within the rules and are not asserted.