.roland
Is .roland a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.roland is not contested. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. It is Roland Corporation.
A single-company brand domain: useful to Roland for its own sites, but no one else can buy or resell an address on it.
the applicant company itself, for product, support and campaign addresses under its own name; not available to the public
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: a mid-size Japanese audio-hardware maker putting its whole corporate identity on a single-brand string that is also an ordinary English word, so the application has to be worth defending against the word's generic pull rather than monetized.
Same bet: a Japanese equipment manufacturer with a loyal installed base claiming a dictionary-collision brand string for its own exclusive use, where the value is controlling a channel to existing owners of its products, not selling registrations.
Same bet in a different industry: a manufacturer whose trade name is an ordinary male given name, so it is asking for a string that millions of people also consider their own, and everything depends on the brand's recognition inside its niche outweighing the name's everyday use.
What a .roland domain is
.roland 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 .roland domain extension real yet?
.roland 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 .roland domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .roland name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .roland was .pioneer, delegated on 2 June 2016.
Is .roland a real TLD?
Not yet. .roland is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .roland is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- Roland Corporation · first recordedICANN
- Band chosen: 10-29 (vanity/narrow). The record shows one application, by Roland Corporation, typed brand, with no contention. A brand TLD is a closed namespace: the operator registers names for itself and no third party can buy, hold or resell an address, so aftermarket value is nil by construction and the best-fit buyer collapses to the applicant alone. It is not in the 30-49 band because there are no volume or price-driven registrations at all; there is no market, only internal use. It is not in the 1-9 band because the string is a clean, short, widely recognised company name that can serve as a genuine primary identity for the operator's own properties (product, support or regional sites), which is more than a joke or dead string. By analogy (flagged as analogy), brand TLDs from the earlier round have mostly been used lightly, as a few redirects or microsites, with a minority adopting the TLD as their primary web identity and some operators later retiring their TLD; whether Roland lands in the active minority is unknown. The string roland is also a common given name and surname in several European languages, but under a brand registration that public demand cannot be served, so it does not lift the score. Main market uncertainty: whether the operator migrates its primary web presence onto .roland within five years, which would make the namespace meaningful to its customers, or leaves it as a defensive, lightly used holding.