.accounting
Is .accounting a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.accounting is not contested. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. It is Identity Digital.
A clear descriptor for accountants, but firms mostly stay on .com, so demand is modest and resale value thin.
small and mid-size accounting and bookkeeping practices, tax preparers, and accounting-software or directory projects wanting a descriptive address
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 profession, same buyer, and the same bet that a licensed practice will put its primary identity on an occupational word instead of .com, with only the grammatical face differing (who we are vs. what we do).
A professional-services discipline gerund whose bet is that firms already end their trading name in the word, so the string works as a natural suffix for a fragmented, high-fee practice market rather than as a topic directory.
Also a regulated-discipline gerund sold to small partnerships that carry the word in their firm name, but its buyers skew to project and industrial shops more often named for a founder's surname alone, so the suffix pull is weaker.
What a .accounting domain is
.accounting is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under Commerce. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list.
Is the .accounting domain extension real yet?
.accounting 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 .accounting domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .accounting name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .accounting was .accountants, delegated on 7 May 2014.
Is .accounting a real TLD?
Not yet. .accounting is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .accounting is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- Identity Digital · first recordedICANN
“GEL2647T-T15541 · Glass Emotion, LLC · replacement string of .ify · Deactivated GEL2647T-T23460 · Glass Emotion, LLC · replacement string of .nutrition · Deactivated GEL2647T-T42189 · Glass Emotion, LLC · replacement string of .accounting · Deactivated GEL2647T-T58027 · Glass Emotion, LLC · replacement string of .advisors · Deactivated XL2625T-T30125 · XYZ.COM LLC · primary”ICANN
- Band chosen: 30-49 (usable but limited). The string is a plain, unambiguous profession descriptor, which gives it genuine end-use utility for practices that cannot get a short .com, and the record shows a single confirmed applicant (Glass Emotion, LLC) with no contention, which does not change the market view either way. It is not in the 50-69 band because, by analogy with other professional-services TLDs (.accountant, .accountants, .lawyer, .attorney, .dentist, .cpa — inference from analogy, no figures asserted), vertical TLDs for regulated professions have tended to attract defensive or secondary registrations rather than sustained primary-identity use; accounting firms are conservative buyers whose clients expect a .com, and a ten-character suffix is long for a firm name. It is not in the 10-29 band because accounting is a large, real, stable profession with a long tail of small practices that do buy descriptive domains, so demand is not event-driven or joke-level. My own recollection is that this string has been in market under an earlier round (unverified, from memory, flagged as analogy only); if so, that history suggests steady low-volume uptake rather than category-standard status. Main market uncertainty: whether demand gets split further among adjacent strings (.cpa, .accountant, .accountants, .tax), leaving .accounting as one of several interchangeable options with no clear leader, versus consolidating on the most natural noun form. Over the next five years I expect modest volume, weak brand signal, and a thin aftermarket.