.browse
Is .browse a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody has applied for .browse in its own right, as of 7 October 2026. Suffix named .browse as the backup string of its .pal application.
A generic English verb with no clear owner: fine for a catalog or directory hack, unlikely to be anyone's main web address.
online catalogs, comparison and directory sites, and marketplace or browser-adjacent products wanting a verb-style name like shop.browse or cars.browse
Nobody has applied for .browse 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 bare English web-action verb with no category of its own, sold as a call-to-action suffix whose whole value is the imperative reading of the label, open to any registrant willing to build a destination on a verb.
The other half of the same commerce-verb wager — a short transactional verb aimed at retailers and marketplaces putting a call-to-action identity on the shopper's act, differing only in sitting at the purchase end rather than the pre-purchase end.
Also a verb naming the user's discovery act rather than a thing or a trade, betting that owning the word for what people do online confers the namespace — though it carries a dominant-function, quasi-utility weight that a softer verb like browse does not.
What a .browse domain is
.browse is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, in our Commerce category. Nobody has applied for .browse in its own right. It is named on ICANN’s list as part of an application for another string.
Is the .browse domain extension real yet?
.browse 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 .browse domain?
You can’t yet. A .browse 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 .browse was .click, delegated on 16 August 2014.
Is .browse a real TLD?
Not yet. .browse is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because ICANN’s list names .browse as part of an application for another string. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- Suffix · first recordedICANN
“SI2639T-T92852 · Suffix Inc. · replacement string of .pal”ICANN
- Band chosen: 10-29 (vanity/narrow). The string is a common English verb describing an action a visitor takes on a site rather than what the site is, which makes it awkward as a primary identity: a project would need to explain why it lives on .browse, and the obvious uses (catalogs, directories, comparison sites, a browser product) already have well-understood homes on .com, .shop, .store and .app. By analogy (inference, not a verified fact), other action-verb or web-activity strings from the 2012 round such as .click, .surf, .link and .website have tended to live on registrar promotional pricing and light-use or defensive registrations rather than building a brand signal or a meaningful aftermarket; .browse has no stronger semantic anchor than those and a narrower one than .link. It is not in the 30-49 band because there is no evident channel or vertical that would drive volume registrations even on price, and the string does not name a business category the way .store or .shop does. It is not in the 1-9 band because short generic verbs do attract some domain-hack and vanity demand, and a catalog or marketplace niche could plausibly adopt a handful of memorable names. The record shows a single application by Suffix Inc. filed as a replacement string for .pal with no contention recorded; this is stated neutrally and matters only in that a single-applicant, generic-verb string typically depends on registrar distribution and pricing strategy for any adoption, which is unknown here. Main market uncertainty: whether any e-commerce, comparison or browser-adjacent vertical treats .browse as a natural suffix and whether the registry pursues broad discounted retail distribution; without that, demand over the next 5 years is likely shallow and event-driven at best.