.tisi
Is .tisi a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.tisi is not contested. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. It is TISI.
A private company-name domain: useful to its one owner as a secure namespace, with no public market behind it.
the applicant company itself, for its own corporate sites, products, and internal services; not open 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.
Same bet: a standards/membership institute's own initialism as a top-level identity, where the string is unreadable as a word to outsiders and the only plausible registrant base is the institute itself plus its chapters, units and programs, so success depends entirely on internal adoption rather than any open market.
Same bet in non-commercial form: an institution whose public name IS its acronym claiming that acronym at the top level, betting that recognition already earned in one technical and national constituency is enough to carry a namespace no third party will ever register in.
Same bet stripped to its structure: an opaque four-letter organizational initialism nobody outside the organization can decode, so the string has no generic pull, no defensive value against squatters, and lives or dies on the owner migrating its own properties onto it.
What a .tisi domain is
.tisi 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 .tisi domain extension real yet?
.tisi 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 .tisi domain?
You can’t yet. A .tisi 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 .tisi was .ieee, delegated on 21 July 2016.
Is .tisi a real TLD?
Not yet. .tisi is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .tisi is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- TISI · first recordedICANN
- Band chosen: 10-29 (vanity/narrow), at its floor. The record shows one application, by TISI Inc., filed as a brand type, with no category tag and no contention. A brand-type TLD is, by analogy to the 2012-round dot-brands, a closed namespace in which only the applicant and its affiliates register names, so there is no third-party registration market and no aftermarket in which the string could command resale value. 'TISI' is not a word with independent meaning in a major market as far as I know, so the string carries no generic demand that a public namespace could tap. It is not in the band above (30-49) because the defining features of that band, volume or price-driven registrations and a thin-but-present aftermarket, cannot exist in a closed brand namespace. It is not in the band below (1-9) because a dot-brand does have one real user with a genuine primary-identity use case: by analogy, a minority of 2012-round brand registries moved their main web presence or product domains onto their own TLD and gained a verifiable, phishing-resistant namespace, which is a real if narrow form of end-use utility. The main market uncertainty is whether TISI Inc. would actually migrate its primary identity to the string or hold it defensively; by analogy, most 2012-round dot-brands were used lightly or redirected, which would put the practical value near the bottom of the band, while active use as a primary identity would justify the upper teens. The size and recognition of the company, which is unknown from the record, also bounds how much credibility the namespace could add.