.ntv
Is .ntv a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.ntv is not contested. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. It is Nippon Television Network Corporation.
A closed company name space for a Japanese broadcaster; useful only to that company, with no open market or resale value.
the applicant broadcaster itself, for its own channels, programmes, streaming services and campaigns; not open 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 broadcaster's own three-letter call-sign initialism taken as a closed corporate namespace, where the string carries no generic meaning and the value rests entirely on an audience already recognizing those letters as that network.
A broadcast network's initialism that literally embeds 'tv' as its identity marker — the same wager that a station brand plus the TV suffix is distinctive enough to anchor one company's primary identity rather than read as a generic television category.
Another legacy-network initialism applied for as a single-registrant brand TLD, resting on the same premise that decades of on-air letter equity transfer to a namespace no one else could credibly claim.
What a .ntv domain is
.ntv 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 .ntv domain extension real yet?
.ntv 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 .ntv domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .ntv name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .ntv was .nhk, delegated on 4 June 2014.
Is .ntv a real TLD?
Not yet. .ntv is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .ntv is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- Nippon Television Network Corporation · first recordedICANN
“NTNC2670T-T72865 · Nippon Television Network Corporation · primary”ICANN
- Band chosen: 10-29 (vanity/narrow). The record lists one confirmed applicant, Nippon Television Network Corporation, with an ICANN application type of brand, so the string is best read as a closed dot-brand: the only realistic buyer is the applicant, and addresses would carry its channel, programme, streaming and campaign names. By analogy (flagged as analogy), brand TLDs from the earlier round split into a minority that moved real properties onto the TLD and a majority that kept it for redirects or let it lapse; a broadcaster has a plausible use case (short programme and event addresses, on-air promotion) but most of its audience will keep finding it through its established addresses and apps. It is not in the 30-49 band because there are no volume registrations, no price-driven demand and no aftermarket at all; it is not in the 1-9 band because the applicant does have a genuine, if modest, primary-identity use for addresses on its own name. Main market uncertainty: whether the operator actually migrates audience-facing properties to the TLD or uses it only for redirects and defensive holding; the number of memorable short strings under it that end up in on-air use is unknown.