.lkab
Is .lkab a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.lkab is not contested. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. It is LKAB.
A company-only web address for one Swedish mining firm; nobody else can buy a name on it, so it has no market value.
the applicant company itself (LKAB) and its internal units, subsidiaries and campaigns; 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 as .lkab: the initialism of a Nordic heavy-industry B2B company (mining/minerals processing) that means nothing to the public but is the firm's own working identity, so the string's whole value is corporate self-identification rather than any market of registrants or searchers.
An opaque three-letter industrial-manufacturer acronym carried as the company's brand — like .lkab, it is bought by an engineering firm whose customers are other firms, and it only works if a single owner is content to be the sole user forever.
Also a Swedish Aktiebolag whose public face is its legal-name initialism, so the identity bet is the same shape, but SCA sits behind consumer products while LKAB is purely extractive and state-owned, giving it a broader downstream audience than the target has.
What a .lkab domain is
.lkab 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 .lkab domain extension real yet?
.lkab 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 .lkab domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .lkab name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens.
Is .lkab a real TLD?
Not yet. .lkab is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .lkab is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- LKAB · first recordedICANN
“LAP2613T-T87183 · Luossavaara-Kiirunavaara Aktiebolag · primary”ICANN
- Band chosen: 1-9, no realistic market. The verified facts show a single confirmed application of ICANN type brand from LKAB (Luossavaara-Kiirunavaara Aktiebolag), with no category tag and no contention. The string is the company's own acronym, so by analogy with closed dot-brand TLDs from the 2012 round the registry is expected to register names only to itself and affiliates; there is no third-party buyer, no pricing, and no aftermarket, which is what keeps it out of the 10-29 band (even a vanity TLD has outside registrants who choose it). It is not below the floor of its band because the operator can realistically use it as a primary identity for corporate sites, portals and campaigns over the next 5 years, which is genuine end-use utility for its one user. By analogy (flagged as such), many 2012-round dot-brands saw little or no public use and some were later retired, while a minority became the operator's main web identity; which path this one takes is the main market uncertainty, and specific usage figures for comparable brand TLDs are unknown to me and not asserted here.