.society
Is .society a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.society is contested: 2 applications for it are on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. They are XYZ Registry and Identity Digital. TLD Empire named .society as a backup string for its .slot application. ICANN deactivated it, because another applicant applied for the same string or named it as a backup. CamConnecting named .society as a backup string for its .gym application. ICANN deactivated it, because another applicant applied for the same string or named it as a backup.
A clear word for clubs and associations, but most of them already live on .org, so demand stays modest and prices thin.
clubs, associations, learned and historical societies, member communities, and brand or lifestyle projects playing on the "society" word
Named on the ICANN gTLD application list, 7 October 2026 as a replacement (backup) string of the applicant's .gym application, shown as deactivated: another applicant applied for the same string or named it as a backup
Named on the ICANN gTLD application list, 7 October 2026 as a replacement (backup) string of the applicant's .slot application, shown as deactivated: another applicant applied for the same string or named it as a backup
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: an unowned abstract collective noun that any self-organized body of people can claim as its primary identity, so value depends on groups preferring a collective-noun label over a .org.
Same bet in entity-type form: a generic English word for a membership body, bought by the organization itself to sit at its front door, needing many small member-run groups to re-badge.
Also a formal-body entity noun that learned, professional and research organizations put their own name in front of, but it skews to credentialed institutions rather than the broad voluntary-membership and social-cause range a collective noun picks up.
What a .society domain is
.society is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, in our Culture category. 2 applications for it are on ICANN’s Reveal Day list.
Is the .society domain extension real yet?
.society 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 .society domain?
You can’t yet. A .society 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 .society was .community, delegated on 27 January 2014.
Is .society a real TLD?
Not yet. .society is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .society is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
“ASL2693T-T13404 · Agador Slip, LLC · primary · contention set 2026-217 XL2625T-T30633 · XYZ.COM LLC · primary · contention set 2026-217”ICANN
“ASL2693T-T13404 · Agador Slip, LLC · primary · contention set 2026-217 CCS2640T-T59535 · Cam Connecting SARL · replacement string of .gym · Deactivated TEPL2694T-T20319 · TLD EMPIRE PTY LTD · replacement string of .slot · Deactivated XL2625T-T30633 · XYZ.COM LLC · primary · contention set 2026-217”ICANN
- Band chosen: 30-49, usable but limited. The string is a plain, well-understood English word with a coherent buyer group (clubs, associations, learned and historical societies, member communities, and lifestyle or fashion brands that use 'society' as a name device), so an address on it is readable and usable as a primary identity. It is not in the 50-69 band because the natural buyers of this word already have a default home on .org and, for commercial projects, on .com; by analogy with .community, .social, .group and .club (flagged as analogy), association-word TLDs have tended to see volume driven by low pricing and defensive registrations rather than sustained primary-identity use, and their aftermarkets have been thin outside a handful of dictionary phrases (high.society, secret.society style names). It is not in the 10-29 band because the demand is not purely joke or event-driven: a chess society, alumni society or arts society can plausibly adopt it as its main address, and the two confirmed standard applications on the record (Identity Digital and XYZ, contention set 2026-217) are from operators whose portfolios suggest general open registration, which supports broad availability rather than a narrow or restricted use. Main market uncertainty: whether the operator prices and markets the string as a value or volume TLD (which lifts registration counts but weakens the brand signal) or as a premium community word, and whether any recognisable organisation adopts it as a primary identity early enough to give the suffix credibility over the next 5 years.