.krafton
Is .krafton a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.krafton is not contested. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. It is KRAFTON, Inc..
A single-company brand TLD: useful to its owner as a trusted address, but nobody else can buy a name on it.
the applicant company itself and its own products, teams and campaigns; there is no outside buyer group
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 coined, meaningless-outside-the-industry corporate name of a video-game publisher claiming the registry as its own house identity, which only works if the company name (not its game titles) is the asset people type.
Also a coined Asian games-company corporate name betting its own identity string, though it was a platform/network brand consumers used directly, whereas Krafton is a parent whose products carry their own names.
Same shape of bet in interactive entertainment — a coined parent-company name taking the TLD while its famous products sit under separate brands — but it is a multi-industry conglomerate rather than a single-sector game maker.
What a .krafton domain is
.krafton 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 .krafton domain extension real yet?
.krafton 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 .krafton domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .krafton name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens.
Is .krafton a real TLD?
Not yet. .krafton is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .krafton is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- KRAFTON, Inc. · first recordedICANN
- Band chosen: 10-29 (vanity/narrow). The record shows a single application typed "brand" from KRAFTON, Inc., so this is a closed dot-brand: the registry operator is the only registrant, there is no public registration and no aftermarket. It is not in the 30-49 band because that band assumes registrations at volume or on price from outside buyers, which a brand TLD structurally excludes. It is not in the 1-9 band because a dot-brand does have a realistic, if narrow, use: the owner can use it as a verified primary identity for product sites, launches, support and anti-phishing signalling, which is an end-use value to its best-fit (and only) buyer. By analogy to the 2012-round dot-brands, outcomes were mixed: a minority became genuine primary identities with visible public use, a larger share stayed defensive or dormant, and a number were later voluntarily terminated (analogy, no figures asserted). Qualitatively, companies with a consumer-facing audience and active product marketing are more likely to put a dot-brand into real use than holding companies, which argues for the mid-to-lower part of the band rather than the floor. Main market uncertainty over the next 5 years: whether the owner redirects its main consumer-facing properties onto the TLD (real primary-identity use) or keeps it as a defensive, mostly-dormant asset. Applicant facts are stated only from the record and used solely to inform adoption likelihood.