.zia
Is .zia a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.zia is not contested. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. It is ZOHO CORPORATION PRIVATE LIMITED.
A single-company brand domain with no public registrations expected, so there is no open market for .zia addresses.
the applicant company itself, for product, assistant and support addresses under its own brand; not available 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.
Like .zia it is a short, pronounceable proper-name word that carries no product or category meaning in English, so the bet is identical: the string has to be made to mean something by whoever runs it, and its only intrinsic asset is that it is a memorable name-shaped sound rather than a noun anyone already searches for.
A four-letter vowel-rich coined string with no dictionary job, betting that a clean, soft, nameable shape is worth owning on its own — the same wager .zia makes, where nobody arrives already knowing what the label is for.
Also a very short non-English everyday word (Italian/Spanish) pressed into service as a namespace label, so it shares .zia's structure — brief, foreign-language, name-like — but it leans on a numeral's universal legibility, which gives it a hook .zia does not have.
What a .zia domain is
.zia 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 .zia domain extension real yet?
.zia 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 .zia domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .zia name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens.
Is .zia a real TLD?
Not yet. .zia is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .zia is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- ZOHO CORPORATION PRIVATE LIMITED · first recordedICANN
“ZCPL2626T-T59152 · ZOHO CORPORATION PRIVATE LIMITED · primary”ICANN
- Band chosen: 10-29 (vanity/narrow). The verified facts show one application, typed as a brand application, from Zoho Corporation Private Limited, with no contention and no category tag. A brand-type TLD is operated for the applicant's own use, so the only buyer is the applicant and there is no public registration channel and no aftermarket. By analogy (flagged as analogy) with brand TLDs from the earlier round, most saw light or no public use, with a minority used as redirect or product namespaces by their owners; the value is internal brand control and a short vanity address for a product line, not a market. From general knowledge rather than the facts block, the string matches the name of an AI assistant product associated with the applicant, which suggests use as a product or assistant namespace if it is used at all. It is not in the 30-49 band because there are no volume registrations and no brand signal transferable to third parties; it is not in the 1-9 band because a brand owner with a sizeable software portfolio has a realistic, if narrow, use for it as a primary identity for one product line over the next 5 years. Main market uncertainty: whether the applicant actually moves a customer-facing product onto .zia addresses rather than keeping it as a defensive registration.