.mufg
Is .mufg a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.mufg is not contested. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. It is MUFG Bank, Ltd..
A private namespace for one financial group: useful to the brand itself, with no open registrations and no resale market.
the applicant group and its subsidiaries, for customer-facing banking properties and internal services; no public buyer 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 bank holding group's own initialism, meaningless to outsiders, applied so a single regulated financial institution can move its whole retail-plus-wholesale identity onto a string only it can claim.
The identical wager that a multinational bank's holding-company acronym has already displaced the words behind it, so the letters alone work as the primary brand with no generic-category demand to compete for.
Same shape and same buyer type: a top-tier Asian bank whose home-market name is non-Latin, applying for the Roman-letter acronym as its single-registrant corporate namespace.
What a .mufg domain is
.mufg 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 .mufg domain extension real yet?
.mufg 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 .mufg domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .mufg name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .mufg was .bbva, delegated on 27 May 2015.
Is .mufg a real TLD?
Not yet. .mufg is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .mufg is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- MUFG Bank, Ltd. · first recordedICANN
- Band 10-29 (vanity/narrow). The record shows a single confirmed applicant, MUFG Bank, Ltd., with ICANN application type brand, so the best-fit buyer is the operator itself and third-party demand is structurally absent. It is not in the 30-49 band because there are no registrations at volume or on price and no aftermarket at all — a closed brand string cannot be bought by anyone else. It is not in the 1-9 band because a large financial group has a genuine primary-identity use case: by analogy with other bank-run brand TLDs that moved login pages, product sites and campaign URLs onto their own string, a trusted, operator-controlled namespace has real anti-phishing and brand-consistency utility for a bank, and that is end-use value even without a market. Within the band I score toward the upper half because financial brands are among the dot-brand categories where analogous operators have actually used the string rather than parked it (inference from analogy, not from the record). Whether the string was previously delegated in an earlier round is unknown from the record and not asserted. Main market uncertainty: whether the group uses .mufg as a primary customer-facing identity across its retail and corporate banking properties over the next 5 years, or holds it defensively with a redirect — the two outcomes sit at opposite ends of this band.