.screen
Is .screen a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.screen is not contested. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. It is SCREEN Holdings Co., Ltd..
A company-owned namespace: useful to its one owner as a branded address, with no open registrations and no resale market.
the applicant company itself, for its own corporate sites, product lines and regional subsidiaries; no third-party buyers
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 as .screen: a plain, uncontested English noun for a piece of consumer hardware, where the registry is wagering that device makers, retailers, repair shops and accessory sellers across an entire product category will all want their primary identity on the generic word rather than any one of them owning it.
Also a single generic noun naming a display/imaging device, bought by the same mixed pool of manufacturers, dealers and enthusiast media, and it needs the same thing to be true — that a hardware category is a durable namespace and not just a Google search term.
A one-word generic that is simultaneously a device and a verb about viewing, so like .screen it has to serve two unrelated buyer sets (makers/sellers of the object, and services built on the action) with one string, which cuts both the demand and the clarity.
What a .screen domain is
.screen 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 .screen domain extension real yet?
.screen 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 .screen domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .screen name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .screen was .phone, delegated on 20 December 2016.
Is .screen a real TLD?
Not yet. .screen is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .screen is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- SCREEN Holdings Co., Ltd. · first recordedICANN
“77352697T-T40435 · SCREEN Holdings Co., Ltd. · primary”ICANN
- Band chosen: 10-29 (vanity/narrow). The record shows one application, by SCREEN Holdings Co., Ltd., recorded with ICANN application type brand and no contention. A brand-type TLD is, by analogy with brand TLDs of the earlier round, operated as a closed namespace where only the registry operator and its affiliates register names, so there is no public market, no aftermarket, and no resale or brand value for anyone outside the company. It is not in the 30-49 band because that band requires registrations happening at volume or on price from outside buyers, which a closed brand namespace does not offer. It is not in the 1-9 band because a corporate owner using the string as a primary identity for its own properties is a real, if single-buyer, use; analogous brand TLDs have ranged (by analogy, not from the record) from fully redirecting company sites to lying dormant, and the dictionary-word string screen gives the owner a cleaner identity than many brand strings. The main market uncertainty is whether the owner will actually move its primary web identity onto the string within 5 years or keep it as a defensive holding. A second uncertainty, flagged as analogy, is that a generic English word like screen (displays, screen printing, screening, film) would have genuine niche demand if it were ever opened, but under a brand-type application that demand is not addressable. Counts, prices, and dates beyond the record are unknown.