.tiktok
Is .tiktok a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.tiktok is not contested. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. It is ByteDance.
A closed brand namespace: useful only to its owner for campaigns and links, with no open registration or resale market.
the applicant's own product, marketing and creator-program teams, as a controlled namespace for links, campaigns and regional sites; not open to outside registrants
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 coined, single-owner consumer video-platform brand claiming its own namespace, where the string's value rests entirely on the app's user base rather than on any meaning in the word.
Same bet of a dominant Asian-origin consumer social-feed platform putting its primary corporate identity on a brand-only string, with the added parallel of a name that has to carry across a home market and a global audience.
Same bet in kind — a deliberately misspelled, coined brand for a consumer media-sharing community — but a smaller, narrower platform whose owner was a division rather than the company's whole identity.
What a .tiktok domain is
.tiktok 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 .tiktok domain extension real yet?
.tiktok 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 .tiktok domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .tiktok name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .tiktok was .youtube, delegated on 29 August 2014.
Is .tiktok a real TLD?
Not yet. .tiktok is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .tiktok is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- ByteDance · first recordedICANN
- Band chosen: 10-29 (vanity/narrow). The record shows a single application typed as brand, so the best-fit buyer is the applicant itself and there is no open registration channel; aftermarket value for third parties is effectively nil, which keeps it out of 30-49 (that band needs registrations at volume or on price, which a closed brand TLD does not offer). It stays above 1-9 because the string names a globally recognised consumer platform with heavy link-sharing behaviour, so a verified, operator-controlled namespace has genuine end-use utility for short links, creator programs and anti-phishing signalling. By analogy (flagged as analogy), brand TLDs from the earlier round split into a minority that became active identities for redirects, campaigns or product domains and a larger group that stayed dormant or were later retired; the typical path is supplementary use rather than replacing the established .com identity. Main market uncertainty: whether the operator commits to visible public use (short links, verified creator pages) or treats the string as defensive, which decides whether this sits near the top or bottom of its band.