.workshop
Is .workshop a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody has applied for .workshop in its own right, as of 7 October 2026. Squarespace named .workshop as the backup string of its .lab application.
A pleasant word for makers, studios and training events, but long and generic; few will pick it as their main web address.
makers, craft and fabrication studios, repair shops, and trainers who run workshop-style courses and want a descriptive, friendly address
Nobody has applied for .workshop 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 almost exactly: an everyday noun for the room where a small maker or creative outfit actually works, sold open to anyone who wants their trade premises to be their primary identity, and winning only if self-employed craft/creative operators treat a place-word as a brand.
Same bet of selling a workplace noun as identity to small industrial and fabrication businesses, but it leans on a plural/verb ambiguity (portfolio, factory, "it works") that a single concrete venue word does not have to carry.
Covers the target's other half — the short taught session as a product — betting that independent instructors and course providers will brand on the format word itself rather than their own name, which is the same identity gamble on a different sense of the word.
What a .workshop domain is
.workshop is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, in our Commerce category. Nobody has applied for .workshop in its own right. It is named on ICANN’s list as part of an application for another string.
Is the .workshop domain extension real yet?
.workshop 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 .workshop domain?
You can’t yet. A .workshop 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 .workshop was .studio, delegated on 8 July 2015.
Is .workshop a real TLD?
Not yet. .workshop is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because ICANN’s list names .workshop as part of an application for another string. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- Squarespace · first recordedICANN
“SRL2616T-T44072 · Squarespace Registry LLC · replacement string of .lab”ICANN
- Band chosen: 30-49, usable but limited. The string has two real meanings - a physical maker or repair space, and a training or event format - and both carry warm, hands-on connotations that suit small creative businesses, artisan brands, hackerspaces and course providers. By analogy (flagged as analogy), existing descriptive-noun TLDs aimed at creative and small-business buyers such as .studio, .works and .design have found real but modest primary-identity use, mostly among small firms and side projects, with thin aftermarkets dominated by a handful of dictionary words; .workshop is likely to track that pattern rather than exceed it over the next 5 years. It is not in the 50-69 band because the word is eight characters, spans two audiences without owning either, and competes with shorter options (.studio, .shop, .works, plus .com) for the same buyers, so adoption would need explaining and resale demand would be shallow. It is not in the 10-29 band because the demand is not joke-driven or event-driven: craft studios, repair garages, makerspaces and course businesses are durable buyer groups who register descriptive names at volume when priced reasonably. The verified facts show one application on the record from Squarespace Registry LLC as a replacement string for .lab, standard type, zero contention; a registry connected to a website-builder audience could plausibly expose the string to many small-business signups, which would help volume more than brand strength. Main market uncertainty: whether small creative businesses treat "workshop" as a self-descriptor worth paying for, or whether they default to .studio and .shop which already occupy that mental slot.