.taisho
Is .taisho a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.taisho is not contested. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. It is Taisho Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd..
A company-only name for Taisho Pharmaceutical; no outside buyer can register one, so it has no open market.
the applicant company and its own product lines, campaigns and corporate properties; there is no third-party buyer
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 Japanese consumer-health pharmaceutical maker putting its own corporate surname-style house name on a closed dot-brand, where the only party who could ever use it is the company itself and success means controlled corporate/product microsites rather than any outside demand.
Another Japanese pharmaceutical group registering its founder-derived house name as its own namespace — an identity asset for one registrant, with the same reliance on internal brand-governance budget rather than on registrations or public recognition of the word.
Same bet shape — a mid-size, nationally rooted pharma company's proper-noun house name as a single-registrant brand TLD with no generic meaning to trade on — differing only in that the name is European rather than Japanese, so the defensive-IP calculus behind it is slightly different.
What a .taisho domain is
.taisho 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 .taisho domain extension real yet?
.taisho 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 .taisho domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .taisho name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .taisho was .hisamitsu, delegated on 2 June 2016.
Is .taisho a real TLD?
Not yet. .taisho is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .taisho is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- Taisho Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. · first recordedICANN
“TPCL2648T-T85554 · Taisho Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. · primary”ICANN
- Band chosen: 10-29 (vanity/narrow). The record shows a single confirmed application of ICANN application type 'brand' from Taisho Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., and brand-type TLDs in the earlier round were, by analogy, operated as closed namespaces where only the registry's own organisation holds names, so there is no aftermarket and no outside primary-identity use. It is not in the 30-49 band because registrations at volume or on price cannot happen when the namespace is closed to the public; it is not in the 1-9 band because the string has genuine end-use utility to its one buyer as a corporate identity (by analogy, some brand registries did move primary web properties onto their own TLD and gained a credibility signal from it), and the word also carries cultural resonance as a Japanese era name, which gives the string some memorability beyond the company. Main market uncertainty: whether the operator actually migrates customer-facing properties onto the TLD or keeps it defensive and largely unused, which by analogy was the more common outcome for brand TLDs and would place the score at the bottom of this band.