.corporation
Is .corporation a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.corporation is contested: 3 applications for it are on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. They are XYZ Registry, Identity Digital and Intercap.
A long, formal business-suffix address: fine for defensive or official corporate names, but few firms will make it their main site.
incorporated businesses wanting a formal legal-entity-style web address, plus brand owners registering defensively around their corporate name
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.
The same word in abbreviated form making the identical bet: an unowned legal-entity designator that any incorporated business can put its primary identity on.
Also a bare corporate-status designator aimed at the whole universe of incorporated firms, winning or losing on whether a company will move identity onto the suffix its name already carries.
Same bet one legal form over: a business-structure word with no owner, monetized by every entity of that type wanting a domain that states what it legally is.
What a .corporation domain is
.corporation is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, in our Commerce category. 3 applications for it are on ICANN’s Reveal Day list.
Is the .corporation domain extension real yet?
.corporation 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 .corporation domain?
You can’t yet. A .corporation name can only be registered once the string is delegated (added to the DNS root) and its registry opens.
Is .corporation a real TLD?
Not yet. .corporation is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .corporation is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
“IRI2679T-T31250 · Intercap Registry Inc. · primary · contention set 2026-52 OD2692T-T82413 · Oyster Dream, LLC · primary · contention set 2026-52 XL2625T-T85062 · XYZ.COM LLC · primary · contention set 2026-52”ICANN
- Band chosen: 30-49 (usable but limited), at the low end. .corporation belongs to the legal-entity-suffix family alongside .inc, .llc, .ltd, .corp and .company (analogy). By analogy, .inc has found a real but narrow market as a premium-priced formal identity, .company and .ltd have seen volume driven mostly by price rather than brand signal, and the short .corp string was held back in the prior round over name-collision concerns; none of these became a category default where serious projects choose the suffix TLD over .com without explanation. .corporation is the longest string in that family and is rarely the form people actually say or write ('Corp' and 'Inc' are the spoken suffixes), which weakens memorability and typing ease versus its shorter analogs. It is not in the 50-69 band because there is no evidence, even by analogy, of sustained primary-identity demand for an entity-suffix TLD at this length; defensive and vanity-formal registrations are the likelier mode. It is not in the 10-29 band because 'corporation' is a genuine dictionary word with clear entity semantics, so brand owners and formally-structured businesses have a real, if thin, reason to register, and it is not a joke or event-driven string. Three applicants are recorded in contention set 2026-52 (Intercap Registry Inc., Oyster Dream, LLC, XYZ.COM LLC); which one operates it is unknown, and pricing, eligibility rules and launch policy are unknown. Main market uncertainty: whether the registry positions it as a verified, premium entity credential (closer to the .inc analogy, smaller volume, better brand signal) or as an open low-price string (closer to .company, higher volume, weaker signal); either way the aftermarket is likely thin.