.nusa
Is .nusa a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody has applied for .nusa in its own right, as of 7 October 2026. PANDI named .nusa as the backup string of its .node application.
An Indonesian-identity web address with real local meaning, but most serious Indonesian projects will still default to .id or .com.
Indonesian businesses, tourism operators, cultural projects and diaspora brands wanting an archipelago-flavoured identity ("nusa" = island, as in Nusantara), plus a smaller set of island-themed brands worldwide
Nobody has applied for .nusa in its own right.
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: a shortened endonym for a cultural-linguistic homeland with no matching jurisdiction, sold as an identity badge to anyone who claims that belonging rather than to anyone in a legal territory.
Same bet: a people's own-language name for their own place, where the buyer puts primary identity on the string because it signals who they are, and it only works if that pride translates into paid registrations at scale.
Same identity-shorthand bet by a community naming itself in its own tongue, but it leans on an organized language-community sponsor and a tightly bounded speaker base, whereas the target's referent is a looser, much larger archipelagic region.
What a .nusa domain is
.nusa is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, in our Places category. Nobody has applied for .nusa in its own right. It is named on ICANN’s list as part of an application for another string.
Is the .nusa domain extension real yet?
.nusa is not yet a domain extension you can register: nothing resolves under it, and no registrar sells names in it. Nobody has applied for it on the public record; the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round is the process that would decide whether it becomes one.
When can you buy a .nusa domain?
You can’t yet. A .nusa 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 .nusa was .bzh, delegated on 17 June 2014.
Is .nusa a real TLD?
Not yet. .nusa is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because ICANN’s list names .nusa as part of an application for another string. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- PANDI · first recordedICANN
“PPND2513-T68462 · Perkumpulan Pengelola Nama Domain Internet Indonesia · replacement string of .node”ICANN
- Band chosen: 30-49, usable but limited. The string carries genuine meaning in Indonesian and Malay (island; the root of Nusantara, the common name for the Indonesian archipelago), so it reads as a national and cultural identity rather than a random dictionary word, and the recorded applicant is PANDI, Indonesia's domain-name association, which by analogy to other ccTLD-operator-run cultural strings suggests an existing registrar and community channel inside the country (neutral fact, used only for adoption likelihood). It is not in the 50-69 band because, by analogy to community and cultural TLDs run alongside strong national ccTLDs (.scot, .wales, .cymru, .eus, .gal, .bzh), these strings tend to settle at modest registration bases with thin aftermarkets, and Indonesia already has a widely used ccTLD that a serious local project would choose without explanation; a .nusa address would need explaining even domestically, and it lacks a category (commerce, tech, AI) that would give it a primary-identity default. It is not in the 10-29 band because the demand is not purely event-driven or joke-like: the word is a living identity term with tourism, cultural, government-adjacent and brand uses, and an operator with a national channel is positioned to seed sustained, if small, registrations rather than a one-off spike. Note that the record lists this as a replacement string for a primary application for .node, which says nothing about the string's market but is stated neutrally. Main market uncertainty: whether Indonesian businesses treat .nusa as a credible primary identity alongside the ccTLD, or only as a defensive or promotional second domain, which by analogy is where most cultural TLDs have landed.