.village
Is .village a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody has applied for .village in its own right, as of 7 October 2026. XYZ Registry named .village as the backup string of its .agent application.
A pleasant descriptive word for communities and resorts, but most will keep their .com or country domain; little resale value.
residential and retirement communities, holiday and resort villages, local village councils, co-living and online-community projects that want a warm, place-like name
Nobody has applied for .village 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.
Identical bet: an open generic settlement noun sold as a place-and-belonging label to local businesses, residents' groups and community organizers, succeeding only if an everyday word acquires real registration meaning rather than leaning on a geography or a company.
Same bet from the social rather than the geographic side: an unowned common noun for a human grouping that any association, neighborhood body or membership organization could put its primary identity on, living or dying on whether people pay to name a collective space.
Same category of generic settlement noun open to local and civic identity, but a scale up that carries municipal and metro-brand weight and reads as quasi-official infrastructure, where village's pitch is small-scale and affective.
What a .village domain is
.village is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, in our Places category. Nobody has applied for .village in its own right. It is named on ICANN’s list as part of an application for another string.
Is the .village domain extension real yet?
.village 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 .village domain?
You can’t yet. A .village 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 .village was .town, delegated on 11 April 2014.
Is .village a real TLD?
Not yet. .village is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because ICANN’s list names .village as part of an application for another string. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- XYZ Registry · first recordedICANN
“XL2625T-T26605 · XYZ.COM LLC · replacement string of .agent”ICANN
- Band chosen: 30-49 (usable but limited), at its floor. .village is a plain dictionary word with a real descriptor use (retirement and residential villages, holiday and resort villages, village councils and parish bodies, co-living projects, online community projects styled as villages), so there is a genuine if small primary-identity case; that is why it is not in the 10-29 vanity band, since demand is not event-driven and the word pairs naturally with place and brand names. It is not in the 50-69 band because, by analogy (flagged as analogy) with existing place-descriptor TLDs such as .town, .city and .community, such strings have tended to attract modest, price-driven registration rather than sustained primary-identity adoption; organisations that fit the word usually already hold a .com or a national ccTLD and tend to treat a descriptor name as a redirect or campaign address, and the aftermarket for descriptor TLDs of this kind has been thin. The brand signal is warm but not credibility-adding: a .village address explains itself, yet it does not raise trust the way a mainstream namespace does, and the word's slightly quaint register in English limits uptake among commercial developers who prefer other vocabulary. Applicant facts, stated neutrally from the record: the sole application is from XYZ.COM LLC as a replacement string for .agent, standard type, with no contention recorded; a replacement-string posture suggests this is not the applicant's lead string, which is a mild negative for the marketing push a descriptor TLD needs to reach volume, though the record gives no further detail (actual registration volumes, pricing and channel support are unknown). Main market uncertainty: whether the organisations that genuinely fit the word (retirement, resort and co-living operators, and local councils) will adopt a .village name as their primary identity over the next 5 years or keep it as a secondary redirect; if primary adoption appears across that cluster the score moves toward the mid-30s to low-40s, and if registrations stay dominated by low-price speculative holds it drifts toward the top of the 10-29 band.