.mbda
Is .mbda a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.mbda is not contested. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. It is MBDA.
A closed company-name domain: useful to its owner for secure, branded web addresses, with no market for anyone else.
the applicant organisation itself, for its own corporate sites, subsidiaries, partner portals and internal services; not available to third-party registrants
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: a European aerospace/defence joint-venture subsidiary putting its whole corporate identity on a name that means nothing to the public and everything to a few governments and primes, so the string only has to work for procurement and employee-facing use, never for consumer recall or open registration.
Same bet: a merger-born, acronym-only industrial B2B identity where nobody expands the letters any more, so the application rests on the registry's willingness to grant a short unexpandable acronym to the single institution that trades under it.
Same bet in a lower-profile register: a three-letter engineering-group acronym with no generic meaning and no consumer audience, defensible only as a closed corporate namespace, though its buyer is plant operators rather than defence ministries.
What a .mbda domain is
.mbda 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 .mbda domain extension real yet?
.mbda 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 .mbda domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .mbda name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens.
Is .mbda a real TLD?
Not yet. .mbda is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .mbda is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- MBDA · first recordedICANN
- Band chosen: 10-29 (vanity/narrow). The string is a corporate acronym with no dictionary meaning, filed on the record as a brand-type application by a single confirmed applicant (MBDA, ICANN application ID M2630T-T55515), so the only plausible registrant over the next 5 years is the applicant and entities it controls; there is no third-party registration volume and no aftermarket, which rules out the 30-49 band (that band requires registrations at volume or on price). It is not in the 1-9 band because a closed brand namespace has a genuine, if single-buyer, use: by analogy with earlier-round dot-brands (flagged as analogy), operators gain a namespace they fully control, which can underpin phishing-resistant customer and partner addresses, consolidated redirects, and a credibility signal that the address is authentic - real end-use utility even without resale value. Further analogy, flagged as such: most earlier-round dot-brands saw modest activation, often limited to redirects or a handful of campaign and portal sites, with a minority adopting the TLD as primary identity; an acronym brand with a business-to-business rather than consumer profile tends toward the lower end of that activation range, which is why the score sits in the middle of the band rather than near its top. Main market uncertainty: whether the applicant will move its primary web identity and partner-facing services onto the TLD, or keep it as a defensive, redirect-only holding - the former would justify the upper part of the band, the latter the lower part.