.album
Is .album a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody has applied for .album in its own right, as of 7 October 2026. KeNIC named .album as the replacement string of its .safari application.
A memorable word for music and photo releases, but an album is a product, not an identity, so most projects will not live on it.
musicians, labels and photographers wanting a release-specific landing page, plus a thin layer of photo-sharing and family-archive projects
No applications recorded for this TLD yet.
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 .album: a singular generic noun naming one bounded unit of recorded creative output, sold to artists and labels who would brand an individual release rather than a company.
The other 2012 string betting that the name of a finished creative artifact can carry primary identity for its makers and publishers, with the same risk that works get branded by title, not by container noun.
Also a generic container-of-works noun pitched at visual creators wanting a home for a curated collection, though it leans toward venues and businesses rather than the work itself.
What a .album domain is
.album is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under Culture. Nobody has applied for .album in its own right. It is named on ICANN’s list as part of an application for another string.
Is the .album domain extension real yet?
.album 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 .album domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .album name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .album was .song, delegated on 24 February 2016.
Is .album a real TLD?
Not yet. .album is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because ICANN’s list names .album as part of an application for another string. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- KeNIC · first recordedICANN
“KNIC2550-T86937 · Kenya Network Information Centre · replacement string of .safari”ICANN
- Band chosen: 10-29 (vanity/narrow). The string is an attractive dictionary word with two clear meanings (music release, photo collection), and demand is plausible for single-release campaign pages and photo-archive sites. But an album is a thing an artist or photographer makes, not who they are, so the natural registrant already has a primary identity elsewhere and would treat a .album name as a disposable, event-driven extra. By analogy (flagged as analogy), the launched music- and photo-themed generics such as .music, .band, .photo, .photos, .pics and .gallery have in my understanding stayed small, carried weak brand signal and thin aftermarkets, and did not become the default home for serious artists or studios; .album sits a notch below those because it names the output rather than the maker. It is not in the 30-49 band because I see no path to sustained volume registrations or a stable price-driven base; it is above 1-9 because the word is instantly understood, release campaigns are a real recurring use, and some vanity and collector demand should appear. On the record, the only application is from Kenya Network Information Centre, filed as a replacement string for .safari; the operator's distribution channel for a generic English string is unknown, and I do not adjust the score for it beyond noting adoption breadth is unproven. Main market uncertainty: whether music distribution or streaming intermediaries build release pages on the string at scale, which would convert event-driven demand into habitual use.