.sompo
Is .sompo a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.sompo is not contested. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. It is Sompo Holdings, Inc..
A private company-name domain: useful only to the applicant for its own sites, with no public registrations or resale market.
the applicant itself, Sompo Holdings, for its own corporate sites, customer portals and campaign addresses; 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 almost exactly: a Japanese insurance group putting its short in-market house abbreviation (not its full legal name) on a TLD, which only works if domestic customers and agents already read that contraction as the company.
Also a large multi-line insurer betting its compact, meaningless-to-outsiders house mark can carry the group's primary identity across markets, though it starts from global brand recognition rather than one home market's shorthand.
A single insurance carrier's corporate brand used as its own namespace for agents, policyholders and subsidiary lines — the same closed brand-as-infrastructure wager, but on a transparent full-word name rather than an insider abbreviation.
What a .sompo domain is
.sompo 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 .sompo domain extension real yet?
.sompo 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 .sompo domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .sompo name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .sompo was .nissay, delegated on 30 March 2016.
Is .sompo a real TLD?
Not yet. .sompo is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .sompo is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- Sompo Holdings, Inc. · first recordedICANN
- Band chosen: 10-29 (vanity/narrow). The record shows a single brand-type application from Sompo Holdings, Inc., whose name matches the string, so this is a closed company namespace: addresses are not sold to the public, there is no aftermarket, and the string carries meaning only in connection with that company (from my own knowledge, flagged as such, the name is a large financial-services group, which makes a trust-signalling use plausible). It is not in the 30-49 band because registrations at volume or on price cannot happen at all in a closed brand registry and no resale value exists. It is not in the 1-9 band because the single best-fit buyer has a genuine, if modest, use: a company-controlled namespace is a credible primary identity for the owner's own properties, and brand TLDs from the 2012 round such as .canon or .bmw (analogy) have seen real if partial deployment for corporate and campaign sites. The main market uncertainty is whether the owner commits to moving primary web properties onto the string or treats it as a defensive, redirect-only holding, which by analogy with many 2012-round brand TLDs is the more common outcome.