.shimano
Is .shimano a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.shimano is not contested. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. It is Shimano.
A company-owned brand domain: useful to Shimano for its own sites and campaigns, with no addresses for anyone else to buy or resell.
the brand owner itself, using the ending for its own product, dealer and campaign sites; 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: a family-named, specialist component manufacturer whose mark lives on parts inside somebody else's finished machine, betting that a supplier brand with no consumer storefront still deserves to be the root of its own identity.
Same bet: a Japanese founder-named manufacturer of the consumer-visible wearing parts of a vehicle, carrying both an OEM/dealer channel and an enthusiast aftermarket onto a single corporate string.
Same bet in kind but looser in control: a heritage engineering surname that became a quality mark across both vehicle components and sporting goods, so the string has to serve an enthusiast audience rather than one tidy product line.
What a .shimano domain is
.shimano 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 .shimano domain extension real yet?
.shimano 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 .shimano domain?
You can’t yet. A .shimano 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 .shimano was .schaeffler, delegated on 24 December 2015.
Is .shimano a real TLD?
Not yet. .shimano is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .shimano is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- Shimano · first recordedICANN
- Band chosen: 1-9 (no realistic market). The record shows a single confirmed application typed 'brand' by SHIMANO INC., and the string is a company name, recognised in cycling and fishing-equipment circles; a brand-type application means names under it are expected to be held by the applicant rather than sold, so there is no open registration market and no aftermarket to speak of. It is not in the 10-29 band because that band still assumes third parties can register names and a thin event-driven demand exists; here, by the nature of a brand application, outside buyers have nothing to buy. It is not lower than the top of this band because the string is a genuine, well-known brand with plausible end-use utility for the owner (short product or campaign addresses, dealer locators, regional redirects), so the ending is not worthless to its one best-fit user. By analogy (flagged as analogy), brand endings from the earlier round split between owners that actively used them for redirects and microsites and owners that left them dormant or retired them; which path this one takes governs its utility but not its market, which stays closed either way. Main market uncertainty: whether the owner uses the ending as a visible primary identity (for example moving product or dealer sites onto it) or keeps it as a defensive, mostly unused registration — the first would justify the top of the band, the second its floor.