.mizuho
Is .mizuho a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.mizuho is not contested. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. It is Mizuho Financial Group, Inc..
A private bank-owned web address ending; useful only to Mizuho itself, with nothing for anyone else to buy or resell.
the applicant itself, Mizuho Financial Group, for its own customer-facing and internal properties; no outside buyer group exists
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 large Japanese financial institution putting its own house name — a word that means nothing to outsiders but is the primary identity to its domestic customers — on a dot-brand it controls entirely, with success measured by internal brand governance rather than any outside demand.
A megabank's own non-English proper name as a closed brand TLD, where the string's value depends solely on the bank's willingness to migrate its own regulated, trust-sensitive customer touchpoints onto it in one home market.
Identical bet in a different country: a single banking group's proprietary word-mark, useless to anyone else, acquired as corporate namespace infrastructure rather than as a market to sell registrations into.
What a .mizuho domain is
.mizuho 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 .mizuho domain extension real yet?
.mizuho 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 .mizuho domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .mizuho name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .mizuho was .nissay, delegated on 30 March 2016.
Is .mizuho a real TLD?
Not yet. .mizuho is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .mizuho is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- Mizuho Financial Group, Inc. · first recordedICANN
“84112666T-T75756 · Mizuho Financial Group, Inc. · primary”ICANN
- Band chosen: 10-29 (vanity/narrow). The verified-facts block records a single confirmed application of ICANN type brand by Mizuho Financial Group, Inc., so this is a closed dot-brand: addresses are not sold to third parties, and the only best-fit buyer is the operator itself. It is not in the 30-49 band because registrations do not happen at volume or on price at all - there is no open registration channel and no aftermarket, so resale/brand strength to any outside buyer is effectively nil. It is not in the 1-9 band because a large financial group has a genuine, if narrow, end-use case: by analogy with other bank and insurer dot-brands, a closed TLD can serve as a tamper-resistant primary identity for login, campaign and product addresses, where the ending itself signals authenticity against phishing look-alikes. Also by analogy, many dot-brands from the earlier round were delegated but saw little or no live use, so the realised utility over the next 5 years depends entirely on the group's own migration decisions. Main market uncertainty: whether the group moves meaningful customer-facing traffic (not just redirects) onto the string within 5 years, or keeps it as a defensive holding; the count of live second-level names and their traffic is unknown.