.tanaka
Is .tanaka a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.tanaka is not contested. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. It is TANAKA PRECIOUS METAL GROUP Co., Ltd..
A single-company brand TLD: the applicant may use it for its own sites, but there is no public market for .tanaka addresses.
the applicant itself, a precious-metals group, for its own corporate and product sites; not open to the public
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.
Both are extremely common East Asian family names run as an open namespace whose whole thesis is that millions of unrelated people who happen to bear the name will pay to put their personal or family identity on it — no company owns the word, so demand comes from surname affinity rather than commerce.
Same shape of bet one notch out: a word a large population uses about itself, where the registry is selling belonging to an identity group rather than a product category, and success depends on whether people treat a shared label as worth a primary address.
Covers the other reading of a surname string — a family name claimed by the one family business that carries it — a closed single-registrant identity bet, which is the opposite buyer from an open surname namespace even though the string type is identical.
What a .tanaka domain is
.tanaka 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 .tanaka domain extension real yet?
.tanaka 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 .tanaka domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .tanaka name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .tanaka was .kim, delegated on 23 January 2014.
Is .tanaka a real TLD?
Not yet. .tanaka is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .tanaka is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- TANAKA PRECIOUS METAL GROUP Co., Ltd. · first recordedICANN
“TPMG2687T-T77635 · TANAKA PRECIOUS METAL GROUP Co., Ltd. · primary”ICANN
- Band 1-9 (no realistic market). The verified record shows one confirmed application of ICANN application type brand, from TANAKA PRECIOUS METAL GROUP Co., Ltd., with no contention. A brand-type TLD is run for the registrant's own use, so there is no buyer group beyond the applicant and no aftermarket: an address on .tanaka has no value to anyone except the operator, which is why it sits below the 10-29 band (that band still assumes some public, if shallow, registration demand). It is not lower than 8 because the string does have a plausible end-use for its sole user: by analogy (flagged as analogy) with brand TLDs from the 2012 round, some corporate registrants did move primary sites onto their own TLD, though many others held their TLD without visible use or later retired it, so even the owner's utility is uncertain. Tanaka is also a very common Japanese surname, which would suggest latent personal-name demand under an open model, but the recorded application type is brand, so that demand is unreachable and does not raise the score. Main market uncertainty: whether the operator adopts .tanaka as a primary web identity in Japan and abroad or keeps it dormant; either way, third-party value stays near zero over the next 5 years.