.sokagakkai
Is .sokagakkai a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.sokagakkai is not contested. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. It is Soka Gakkai.
A private brand ending for one religious organization; useful to its owner, with no public registrations or resale market.
the applicant organization itself, for its own official sites, regional branches and member services; no outside buyer group exists
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 single religious organization putting its own community's proper name — a word that means the organization itself and nothing generic — on a TLD it alone would ever legitimately run.
A named faith community's own self-designation claimed by that community's own institutions, where the string's entire value is internal identity and defensive control, not search traffic or resale.
Also a religious body's institutional proper name opaque to outsiders, but it names an office/institution rather than the movement's popular name, so the identity it carries is one step more formal than a membership-wide name like Soka Gakkai.
What a .sokagakkai domain is
.sokagakkai 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 .sokagakkai domain extension real yet?
.sokagakkai 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 .sokagakkai domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .sokagakkai name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .sokagakkai was .mormon, delegated on 19 November 2014.
Is .sokagakkai a real TLD?
Not yet. .sokagakkai is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .sokagakkai is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- Soka Gakkai · first recordedICANN
“STSK2694T-T44451 · Shinano Tatemono Sogo-Kanri Co., LTD. · primary”ICANN
- Band chosen: 10-29 (vanity/narrow), at its floor. The record shows a single confirmed application of ICANN type brand, which in practice means a closed namespace: only the applicant registers names, so there is no third-party demand, no aftermarket, and no price signal to score. The string is the name of a Japanese lay Buddhist organization, so its best-fit buyer is that organization, which could plausibly use addresses under it as official identities for national and regional sites and member-facing services. It is not in the 1-9 band because a real, serious end-use exists for its one user, and the organization has the kind of global branch footprint that a brand TLD can organize coherently. It is not in the 30-49 band because nothing registers at volume or on price and the TLD adds no brand credibility to anyone outside the owner. By analogy (flagged as analogy), 2012-round brand TLDs split between a minority that moved their primary web identity onto the TLD and a majority that stayed largely dormant or were later terminated; which path this one takes is unknown. Main market uncertainty: whether the organization actually migrates its primary official identity to the new ending over the next five years or keeps it as a defensive holding, which decides whether the end-use value is realized at all.