.smtb
Is .smtb a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.smtb is not contested. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. It is Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank, Limited.
A closed company name-space: only the bank itself can use addresses here, so there is no market for anyone else.
the applicant bank and its group entities, for corporate sites, customer logins and secure internal services; no outside registrant can buy an address
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 large domestic bank putting its internal initialism — meaningless to anyone outside its home market — on a registry it alone will populate, betting that institutional identity, not the string's legibility, carries the namespace.
Same bet: an opaque multi-letter bank acronym held as a single-registrant corporate identity, where value comes from consolidating the institution's own properties rather than from any meaning a visitor could decode.
Same bet in the same market — a Japanese financial institution's short acronym as its own namespace — but it is a consumer-facing payment network with far broader public recognition, so the string does more work on its own than a trust bank's initials do.
What a .smtb domain is
.smtb 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 .smtb domain extension real yet?
.smtb 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 .smtb domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .smtb name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .smtb was .bbt, delegated on 15 July 2016.
Is .smtb a real TLD?
Not yet. .smtb is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .smtb is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank, Limited · first recordedICANN
“SMTB2697T-T39810 · Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank, Limited · primary”ICANN
- Band 1-9 (no realistic market). The record shows a single confirmed application of ICANN type 'brand' by Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank, Limited, with no contention. A dot-brand is a closed namespace: the operator is the only registrant, so the 'best-fit buyer' is the applicant itself and there is no third-party demand, no aftermarket and no resale value by construction. It is not in the 10-29 band because that band assumes some outside registrations, however shallow or event-driven; here none can occur. It is not lower than the top of this band because the string has genuine end-use utility for its owner: by analogy with other financial-sector dot-brands from the earlier round, a bank can plausibly move customer-facing and anti-phishing properties onto a namespace it fully controls, and some financial groups did so while others left theirs dormant (analogy, not a fact from the record). The main market uncertainty is usage depth: whether the bank actually migrates primary identities and customer traffic to the string within 5 years or keeps it as a defensive, lightly used holding.