.tvasahi
Is .tvasahi a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.tvasahi is not contested. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. It is TV Asahi Holdings Corporation.
A closed company-name domain for one Japanese broadcaster; useful only to that company, with no public market or resale value.
the applicant broadcaster itself and its internal brands, programmes and campaigns; no outside buyer group exists for a closed brand string
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 terrestrial broadcaster putting its own house brand on the right of the dot as a closed corporate identity, where the only thing that has to be true is that the network itself wants to move its audience-facing properties off .co.jp.
A commercial free-to-air network's own name — including the generic 'tv' token absorbed into the brand — bet on itself as a single-registrant broadcast identity rather than on any viewer or programming category.
Also a broadcast network's self-named closed TLD for its own channels and shows, but it is a pure three-letter network acronym with no 'tv' element and rides a far larger multi-market media group, so the identity bet is the same while the asset behind it differs in kind.
What a .tvasahi domain is
.tvasahi 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 .tvasahi domain extension real yet?
.tvasahi 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 .tvasahi domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .tvasahi name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .tvasahi was .nhk, delegated on 4 June 2014.
Is .tvasahi a real TLD?
Not yet. .tvasahi is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .tvasahi is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- TV Asahi Holdings Corporation · first recordedICANN
“94092653T-T93860 · TV Asahi Holdings Corporation · primary”ICANN
- Band chosen: 10-29 (vanity/narrow). The verified facts record one confirmed application of ICANN type 'brand' from TV Asahi Holdings Corporation and no category tag, so this is a company-name string whose only realistic registrant is the applicant group. End-use utility exists but is narrow: a broadcaster can use names such as programme or campaign labels under its own string for redirects, trusted short links and anti-phishing assurance, and media brands with large consumer audiences are among the plausible genuine users of a brand string. By analogy (flagged as analogy), many 2012-round brand strings were delegated and then used lightly or mainly as redirects to the company's existing site, with a minority adopting them as a primary identity; outcomes have been uneven and are not knowable in advance for this string. It is not in the 30-49 band because no third-party registrations will happen at volume or on price, there is no aftermarket at all, and the brand signal reaches only one company's audience, largely in one country. It is not in the 1-9 band because a real, well-resourced owner with a mass consumer audience has a defensible internal use case (branded links across broadcast, streaming and promotion), which is a realistic if narrow market of one. Main market uncertainty: whether the company moves its consumer-facing properties onto the string as a primary identity or keeps it as a defensive, redirect-only holding, which is the difference between the top and bottom of this band.