.msft
Is .msft a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.msft is not contested. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. It is Microsoft.
A single-company brand TLD: useful to Microsoft for its own addresses, but nobody else can buy one and there is no resale market.
the applicant itself — Microsoft's product, service and infrastructure teams wanting short, company-controlled addresses; not available to outside 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 exactly: a single corporation defensively claiming its ticker-style short form as a second, abbreviated identity alongside the full brand string it also filed, betting that the shorthand the market already uses for it is worth owning.
A pure NYSE ticker filed by its own issuer as a compact corporate identity next to the spelled-out brand — the same wager that an opaque three- or four-letter company code reads as the company to the people who matter.
Another issuer filing its exchange symbol as a brand TLD, with the same requirement for success: that the string means nothing generic to anyone else, so the only entity who could ever put its primary identity on it is the one company behind the ticker.
What a .msft domain is
.msft 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 .msft domain extension real yet?
.msft 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 .msft domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .msft name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens.
Is .msft a real TLD?
Not yet. .msft is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .msft is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- Microsoft · first recordedICANN
- Band chosen: 10-29 (vanity/narrow). The verified record shows one applicant, Microsoft Corporation, with ICANN application type 'brand', and no category tag. A brand TLD is a closed namespace: the only buyer is the operator, so there is no open registration volume and no aftermarket, which rules out the 30-49 band (that band requires registrations happening at volume or on price with a thin aftermarket; here there are none at all). It is not in the 1-9 band because the string reads as a widely recognized short abbreviation for a very large technology company, and such an operator has genuine end-use utility: short, company-controlled addresses for products, services, login and infrastructure endpoints, with the security benefit of a namespace no third party can register in. By analogy (flagged as analogy), many brand TLDs from the earlier new-gTLD round were delegated and then used lightly or mainly defensively, while a smaller number were adopted as public-facing primary identities for the brand's properties; outcomes split sharply on operator commitment rather than on the string. The string's naming quality is modest: it is an abbreviation rather than the full company name, which may limit public-facing adoption relative to a full-name brand TLD, but it is short and unambiguous to the operator's audience. Main market uncertainty: whether the operator will use .msft as a visible primary identity (redirecting major properties, printing it in marketing) or confine it to internal, technical or defensive use, which would leave it near the bottom of this band.