.nomura
Is .nomura a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.nomura is not contested. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. It is Nomura Holdings, Inc..
A closed company-name address for one financial group; useful to that company alone, with no open market for anyone else.
the applicant's own business units, brands and campaigns within the Nomura group; no outside registrant can buy a name here
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 — opaque to anyone outside Japan, meaningful to its own customers — on a closed corporate TLD whose value is controlled brand identity rather than any searchable category.
A founder-surname investment-banking house name used as the firm's primary identity, where the string works only because decades of institutional reputation sit behind the family name, not because the word means anything.
Also a family-surname financial house claiming its own name, with the same reliance on client-side recognition, but it is a closely held private bank rather than a publicly listed securities and brokerage giant, so the audience it must reach is far narrower.
What a .nomura domain is
.nomura 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 .nomura domain extension real yet?
.nomura 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 .nomura domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .nomura name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .nomura was .nissay, delegated on 30 March 2016.
Is .nomura a real TLD?
Not yet. .nomura is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .nomura is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- Nomura Holdings, Inc. · first recordedICANN
- Band chosen: 10-29 (vanity/narrow). The verified facts show a single confirmed brand-type application from Nomura Holdings, Inc., so this is a closed dot-brand: the only buyer is the applicant itself, and the string has no open registration market or aftermarket. It is not in the 30-49 band because that band presumes registrations at volume or on price and a thin-but-real aftermarket; a brand TLD has neither, since names are not sold to third parties. It is not in the 1-9 band because a corporate-name TLD can still serve genuine primary-identity use for the owner (by analogy, some financial-sector dot-brands from the earlier round were used for customer-facing sites and short campaign addresses, while others were retired after little use; this is an inference from analogy, not a figure). Within the band, the string is a recognizable corporate name in financial services, which supports credibility if the owner adopts it, but value to anyone outside the group is nil. Main market uncertainty: whether the owner will actually migrate customer-facing properties onto the TLD or hold it mostly defensively; analogous dot-brand outcomes have been mixed, and a defensive-only pattern would put this at the bottom of the band.