.tbs
Is .tbs a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.tbs is not contested. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. It is TBS HOLDINGS, INC..
A brand-only domain for one company's own sites; nobody else can register on it, so there is no open market.
the applicant company itself and its business units, using addresses like a product or region name under .tbs for its own web properties
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 three-letter initialism of a "<X> Broadcasting System" company, worth something only to the one broadcaster whose audience already reads those letters as its on-air identity, and defended as corporate identity space rather than sold to anyone.
A legacy network's own initialism carried as a closed identity string, where the whole value rests on decades of broadcast recall compressed into three letters rather than on any meaning the letters have.
Same shape of wager — a broadcaster's initialism as a dot-brand it will never open up — differing only in that the letters are globally unambiguous, where a shorter-pedigree broadcast acronym must also outrank rival claimants to the same three letters.
What a .tbs domain is
.tbs 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 .tbs domain extension real yet?
.tbs 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 .tbs domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .tbs name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .tbs was .sbs, delegated on 29 October 2015.
Is .tbs a real TLD?
Not yet. .tbs is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .tbs is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- TBS HOLDINGS, INC. · first recordedICANN
- Band 10-29 (vanity/narrow). The record shows a single application typed as brand from TBS HOLDINGS, INC., with no category tag; a brand TLD is closed to the public, so the only buyer is the applicant and its affiliates. Not the band above (30-49): there are no third-party registrations at volume or on price and no aftermarket at all, because names are not sold. Not the band below (1-9): a dot-brand does have a realistic, if narrow, market of one — its owner can use it as a primary identity for its own properties, which is more than no market. By analogy (flagged as analogy), the 2012-round brand TLDs split into a minority that moved their primary web presence onto the brand string and a majority that kept it as a defensive or lightly used asset, with some later retired; the typical outcome was limited active use rather than a public namespace. Three letters is memorable and short, which helps if the company does migrate its properties, but that does not create resale or brand-signal value for anyone outside the firm. Main market uncertainty: whether the applicant intends an actual migration of its consumer-facing sites onto the string or a defensive registration, which is unknown from the record.