.united
Is .united a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody has applied for .united in its own right, as of 7 October 2026. XYZ Registry named .united as the backup string of its .unlimited application.
A phrase-ending word that fan clubs, unions and campaigns might enjoy, but few serious projects would make their main address.
fan clubs, supporter groups, unions, cooperatives and campaign movements wanting a "we stand united" style phrase name, plus brand owners registering defensively
Nobody has applied for .united 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 as .united: a plain English modifier that isn't a product category but a word a whole class of organizations embeds in its own name (X Mutual / X United), so the registry is selling identity to incumbents who already carry the word rather than to anyone buying into a topic — and both strings sit under the shadow of one dominant corporate claimant.
Also a shared descriptive word that lives inside thousands of organization names rather than describing a sector, so its value depends on name-bearing entities (and only them) moving their primary identity onto a word no single party can claim.
The same adjective-as-identity wager, but weighted more toward aspirational marketing use by anyone than toward entities whose registered name actually contains the word, which makes the buyer less defined than .united's.
What a .united domain is
.united is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, in our Culture category. Nobody has applied for .united in its own right. It is named on ICANN’s list as part of an application for another string.
Is the .united domain extension real yet?
.united 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 .united domain?
You can’t yet. A .united 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 .united was .mutual, delegated on 4 April 2016.
Is .united a real TLD?
Not yet. .united is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because ICANN’s list names .united as part of an application for another string. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- XYZ Registry · first recordedICANN
“XL2625T-T34399 · XYZ.COM LLC · replacement string of .unlimited”ICANN
- Band chosen: 10-29 (vanity/narrow), at its upper edge. The string is a trailing adjective whose everyday meaning is tied in most people's minds to a handful of very large brands (an airline, football clubs, health insurers, the UN), so 'something.united' reads as a slogan or as a reference to one of those brands rather than as a neutral namespace. The real use case is phrase names for supporter groups, unions, cooperatives, political or charity campaigns and collectives, which is a genuine but shallow and often event-driven market (a campaign, a season, a strike). It is not in the 30-49 band because, by analogy with other adjective and slogan-style TLDs, registrations tend to arrive only on promotional pricing and rarely become a serious organisation's primary identity; the aftermarket for such words is thin. It is not in the 1-9 band because the word is memorable, universally understood in English, and there is a plausible sustained trickle of fan-club and collective demand plus defensive registrations by the many companies that use 'United' in their names. Applicant facts, neutrally: the only application on the record is a standard one from XYZ.COM LLC, filed as a replacement string for .unlimited, with zero recorded contention; a registrar-portfolio operator makes broad retail availability plausible, which supports some volume. Main market uncertainty: whether the sports-supporter and collective phrase market actually registers at volume, or whether the string is held mostly as premium inventory with defensive registrations as its real revenue.