.kawasaki
Is .kawasaki a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.kawasaki is not contested. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. It is Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd..
A closed brand TLD for one industrial and powersports group; useful only to Kawasaki itself, with no open market or resale value.
the applicant company and its subsidiaries, dealers and campaigns; no third party can buy an address here
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 Japanese heavy-industry conglomerate putting its primary corporate identity on a string that is simultaneously an ordinary Japanese toponym/surname, so the application has to carry both a brand-registry rationale and a defence of a word the company does not exclusively own.
Same bet of a Japanese vehicle maker claiming a mass-market consumer brand whose string is also one of the commonest Japanese family names — the registry is a marketing channel for dealers and owners, and the string's non-exclusivity is the thing that has to hold.
Covers the other reading of the string — a large Kanagawa city name run as a civic/geographic registry for local businesses and residents rather than one company — the same dual-use collision (Yokohama is also a tyre brand) that makes this kind of Japanese place-name bet work or fail.
What a .kawasaki domain is
.kawasaki 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 .kawasaki domain extension real yet?
.kawasaki 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 .kawasaki domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .kawasaki name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .kawasaki was .komatsu, delegated on 26 March 2015.
Is .kawasaki a real TLD?
Not yet. .kawasaki is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .kawasaki is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd. · first recordedICANN
“70122665T-T13662 · Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd. · primary”ICANN
- Band chosen: 10-29 (vanity/narrow). The verified facts show a single confirmed application by Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd., typed as a brand application, so this is a closed, single-registrant namespace. The Kawasaki name carries broad consumer recognition through motorcycles and powersports, and the group spans heavy industry, so the brand could plausibly run product, dealer, regional or campaign addresses on its own TLD as a primary identity over the next 5 years. By analogy (flagged as analogy), most brand TLDs from the earlier round, including those of large Japanese and automotive manufacturers, have been used sparingly: redirects, a handful of campaign addresses, or no public use at all, with a minority of brands moving their main web identity onto the TLD. That pattern puts .kawasaki in the vanity/narrow band rather than higher. It is not in the 30-49 band because there are no registrations at volume, no price-driven demand and no aftermarket possible; an address here is worth something only to the brand. It is not in the 1-9 band because a well-known global brand with dealers and multiple business lines has a realistic, if modest, internal use for a self-controlled namespace. Note the string also coincides with the name of a Japanese city, but a closed brand registry would not serve geo demand. Main market uncertainty: whether the group actually migrates customer-facing identity (powersports sites, dealer locators, product campaigns) onto the TLD or leaves it defensive and dormant, as most brand registries have done by analogy.