.商標
Is .商標 a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody has applied for .商標 in its own right, as of 8 October 2026. Internet DotTrademark Organisation named .商標 as an IDN variant label of its .商标 application.
A traditional-Chinese "trademark" address: mark owners may register it defensively, but few would make it their main web identity.
trademark owners and brand-protection teams in traditional-Chinese-script markets (Hong Kong, Taiwan, Macau) registering to mirror a mark, mostly defensively
Nobody has applied for .商標 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.
Identical bet: the same generic legal-asset noun for "trademark" in CJK script, differing only in traditional versus simplified characters, so the registrant, the pitch (put your mark itself at the top level) and the dependency on brand owners and IP agents adopting a native-script TLD are the same.
Same structural bet of claiming the traditional-character twin of a string already applied for in simplified form, where the value rests on script-coverage for one audience rather than on a new word.
Same class of word and same job: a bare CJK generic commerce noun betting that Chinese-language businesses will carry their primary identity on a native-script category label, though its buyer is a merchant with a storefront rather than an owner of a registered mark.
What a .商標 domain is
.商標 is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, in our Brand category. Nobody has applied for .商標 in its own right. It is named on ICANN’s list as part of an application for another string.
Is the .商標 domain extension real yet?
.商標 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 .商標 domain?
You can’t yet. A .商標 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 .商標 was .商标, delegated on 22 May 2014.
Is .商標 a real TLD?
Not yet. .商標 is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because ICANN’s list names .商標 as part of an application for another string. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- Band chosen: 10-29 (vanity/narrow). The string means "trademark" in traditional Chinese characters and is recorded as a variant of the simplified-character string .商标 (xn--czr694b) from the same applicant, Internet DotTrademark Organisation Limited; the record shows one application, no contention and no category tag. A trademark-meaning namespace signals ownership of a mark rather than naming a product, service or place, so by analogy with brand-protection-oriented namespaces its demand is largely defensive: mark holders register to block or mirror, and the address is rarely the primary identity a serious project builds on (analogy). Chinese-script IDN TLDs have, by analogy, seen modest primary-identity use relative to Latin-script alternatives, and a variant string typically tracks or trails its primary rather than building independent demand, which argues against the 30-49 band (no volume or price-driven registration base is evident for a traditional-character variant). It sits above the 1-9 band because there is a real, identifiable buyer group - mark owners in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macau who use traditional characters - and a coherent meaning that a registrar can sell to them. Main market uncertainty: whether traditional-character users in those markets adopt Chinese-script TLDs for web identity at all over the next 5 years, or keep Latin-script addresses as the default while treating this as a certificate-like add-on.