.corp
Is .corp a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.corp is not contested. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. It is Identity Digital.
A corporate-sounding suffix that few companies will choose over .com; demand mostly defensive, aftermarket thin.
companies and holding entities wanting a corporate-register style address, plus brand-protection and enterprise IT buyers registering defensively
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: a corporate-entity-form abbreviation that any incorporated company can append to its own name as a self-applied badge of legitimacy, sold to the whole universe of registered businesses rather than to any industry.
Same bet of monetizing a legal entity suffix as identity real estate — the buyer is any company whose legal name already ends in that abbreviation, so the string's value rests on entity-form prestige, not on topic or audience.
Another entity-form abbreviation playing the same role as .corp for the same buyer, with value coming from the string being the formal shorthand a company already prints after its name.
What a .corp domain is
.corp is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, in our Commerce category. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list.
Is the .corp domain extension real yet?
.corp 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 .corp domain?
You can’t yet. A .corp 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 .corp was .inc, delegated on 17 July 2018.
Is .corp a real TLD?
Not yet. .corp is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .corp is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- Identity Digital · first recordedICANN
- Band chosen: 30-49 (usable but limited). The string reads unambiguously as 'corporation', so a serious company could plausibly use name.corp as an identity, and corporate-entity suffixes have a real if modest track record. By analogy (flagged as analogy), the closest delegated comparators are .inc, .llc, .ltd and .company: each attracted registrations, .inc largely on premium-priced defensive and vanity demand, .ltd on price-driven volume, and none became a primary-identity default inside any category or built a meaningful aftermarket. .corp is not in the 50-69 band because there is no observable buyer segment for which it is the natural first choice over .com or a country code, and its meaning is generic rather than tied to a community that would sustain demand. It is above the 10-29 band because the word is a standard legal-form token that reads credibly in a corporate context, and defensive registration by established companies gives it a floor of serious, non-joke use. A qualitative point from general knowledge, not the facts block: 'corp' is widely used as an internal private-network naming suffix inside enterprises, so if delegated and generally available, some buyers would register defensively to control leakage, while others would avoid it precisely because it looks like an intranet name — this cuts both ways on adoption. The record shows one confirmed applicant (Toddler Logic, LLC) and no category tag, which tells me nothing about pricing or policy. Main market uncertainty: whether the registry positions it as a restricted or verified corporate namespace (which would strengthen credibility but cap volume) or as an open, price-driven TLD (which would raise volume but dilute the brand signal).