.abion
Is .abion a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.abion is not contested. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. It is Abion.
A single-company brand namespace: useful to its owner as a web identity, but not something anyone else can buy or resell.
the applicant company itself and its own products, offices and customer portals; there is no outside buyer group
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: the opaque, low-public-recognition name of a corporate-services firm whose own business is domains and brand protection, so the TLD is simultaneously its corporate identity and a live demonstration of the service it sells to in-house counsel and brand managers.
A coined B2B vendor name from inside the naming/registry industry itself, where the string's job is credentialing with a professional buyer rather than reaching consumers — the TLD works as proof of competence in the very market the applicant serves.
A short coined European professional-services firm name with no mass recognition, making the same modest bet that a defensive, prestige corporate TLD is worth it for an identity only clients and partners will ever type.
What a .abion domain is
.abion is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, in our Brand category. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list.
Is the .abion domain extension real yet?
.abion 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 .abion domain?
You can’t yet. A .abion name can only be registered once the string is delegated (added to the DNS root) and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .abion was .csc, delegated on 1 September 2015.
Is .abion a real TLD?
Not yet. .abion is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .abion is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- Abion · first recordedICANN
- Band chosen: 1-9 (no realistic market). The string matches the applicant's own name (Abion AB, status confirmed on the record, one applicant, no contention), which is the shape of a single-registrant brand TLD rather than an open namespace. From my own knowledge, flagged as such: Abion is a corporate domain-management and brand-protection services firm, which makes a closed, operator-only use the likely model; the facts block records no category tag and no public-registration intent. It is not in the 10-29 band because that band assumes third parties can register at all, even for vanity reasons, and here the best-fit and only plausible registrant is the operator; aftermarket value is effectively absent by design. It is not lower than the chosen score because, by analogy to brand TLDs from the 2012 round that are actively used for corporate sites and customer portals (analogy, no specific outcomes asserted), a brand namespace can carry genuine primary-identity utility for its owner, and a domain-services firm using its own TLD as a showcase is a credible use. Main market uncertainty: whether the operator opens any form of registration to clients or partners (for example as a managed service namespace), which would move the string into the 10-29 band.