.all
Is .all a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.all is contested: 4 applications for it are on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. They are Identity Digital, GoDaddy Registry, Intercap and Link Freedom Group. XYZ Registry named .all as a backup string for its .power application. ICANN deactivated it, because another applicant applied for the same string or named it as a backup. .top (Zhongze) named .all as a backup string for its .sign application. ICANN deactivated it, because another applicant applied for the same string or named it as a backup. Aruba named .all as a backup string for its .vps application. ICANN deactivated it, because another applicant applied for the same string or named it as a backup.
Who is applying, and what they run today
Three of the four already run TLDs, 22.03M names between them. One runs one of .all's closest 2012 strings: Identity Digital .plus. Link Freedom Group runs none.
Will names sell?
A catchy word ending for slogan-style names like for.all, but few serious projects would pick it as their main web address.
Last round the AI scored the 2012 strings blind to their fate. Strings it scored 60 or more hold a median 27,168 names today; those under 30, a median of 30. .all’s closest 2012 strings hold .one 284K and .plus 37K.
The nearest 2012 strings, and how many names each holds today
The closest 2012 string, .one, held 283,638 names, June 2026. .plus held 36,539. Chosen by AI from every string in the 2012 round, without being told what happened to any of them.
Same bet: a short, category-free English word whose only asset is a universal, aspirational meaning, sold by an open registry to any buyer in any vertical, so it wins only if registrants read the word as a positioning statement rather than a topic.
- .and
Same bet in its purest form: a grammatical function word with zero standalone category, which requires the buyer to construct meaning across the dot in a phrase, making it a linguistic-play registry rather than a vertical one.
Same bet as a quantity/completeness modifier that attaches to an existing brand as a qualifier instead of naming an industry, so its value depends on brands wanting a suffix that signals more/everything rather than on any defined registrant pool.
Where they meet elsewhere
Identity Digital and XYZ Registry face each other in 77 contests this round, .all included.
- Identity Digital × XYZ Registry
- Identity Digital × Link Freedom Group
- Identity Digital × GoDaddy Registry
- Link Freedom Group × XYZ Registry
- Identity Digital × Intercap
campaign and slogan builders (inclusion-themed initiatives, 'for all' style movements), plus phrase-brand hobbyists and speculators buying short left-of-dot words on price
What a .all domain is
.all is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, in our Brand category. 4 applications for it are on ICANN’s Reveal Day list.
Is the .all domain extension real yet?
.all 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 .all domain?
You can’t yet. A .all 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 .all was .one, delegated on 22 January 2015.
Is .all a real TLD?
Not yet. .all is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .all is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- 2 applicants · first recordedICANN
- Aruba · now deactivated backupICANN
- Aruba · now abandonedICANN
- 3 applicants · first recordedICANN
- Link Freedom Group · now confirmedICANN
- Aruba · first recordedDomain Name Wire (Andrew Allemann), quoting Aruba S.p.A.
- Link Freedom Group · first recordedLink Freedom Group
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APEC2611T-T93094 · Aruba PEC S.P.A. · replacement string of .vps · Deactivated HKZI2636T-T13529 · Hong Kong Zhongze International Limited · replacement string of .sign · Deactivated IRI2679T-T65817 · Intercap Registry Inc. · primary · contention set 2026-11 LFGL2683T-T66192 · Link Freedom Group Ltd · primary · contention set 2026-11 NA2631T-T80151 · Registry Services, LLC · primary · contention set 2026-11 TT2652T-T78768 · Toddler Logic, LLC · primary · contention set 2026-11 XL2625T-T24343 · XYZ.COM LLC · replacement string of .power · Deactivated
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IRI2679T-T65817 · Intercap Registry Inc. · primary · contention set 2026-11 LFGL2683T-T66192 · Link Freedom Group Ltd · primary · contention set 2026-11 NA2631T-T80151 · Registry Services, LLC · primary · contention set 2026-11 TT2652T-T78768 · Toddler Logic, LLC · primary · contention set 2026-11
“Aruba S.p.A., which operates the .cloud top level domain, is expanding its domain portfolio. The company told Domain Name Wire that it applied for 39 top level domains in this year's new TLD round. That number includes replacement strings. [...] The company applied for the following strings as primary or replacement: aid, all, ask, beta, bit, bnb, cart, ciao, daily, demo, easy, fix, gaming, gen, genius, gym, happy, hello, hola, human, kit, lab, mars, max, moon, omg, pec, pop, rem, roma, sign, sito, super, tag, tex, vps, yes, zen, zzz”Domain Name Wire (Andrew Allemann), quoting Aruba S.p.A.
“.all · Lifestyle · “Everything included, nothing missing.””Link Freedom Group
- Band chosen: usable but limited (30-49), at its low end. The string is a determiner, not a category noun, so it only works as the tail of a phrase (for.all, access.all, win-it.all); that composability is real but narrow. By analogy (flagged as analogy), function-word and broad-lifestyle TLDs such as .one, .world, .life, and .best have historically registered at volume mainly when priced low, with weak brand signal and thin aftermarkets, and .all is weaker than those because it reads grammatically incomplete on its own. It sits above the vanity band (10-29) because the phrase pattern 'X for all' / 'all in' is broadly generative across languages of marketing, so steady price-driven registration demand over the next 5 years is plausible rather than purely event-driven. It does not reach the strong-niche band (50-69) because no identifiable buyer category would treat .all as a primary-identity default without explanation, and I see no mechanism for a sustained aftermarket in a determiner suffix. Applicant facts are neutral context only: the string is announced by Link Freedom Group, which filed more than 300 strings in the ICANN 2026 round and published its catalog (Domain Name Wire, 2026-08-13), listing this string under category 'Lifestyle' with the tagline 'Everything included, nothing missing.'; a large-portfolio applicant suggests broad-distribution retail positioning rather than a single-community push, consistent with price-driven volume. Main market uncertainty: whether phrase-hack demand (for.all, one-for.all) converts into renewing, primary-identity use or stays a novelty-registration pattern with high churn; renewal behavior of comparable phrase-hack TLDs is unknown to me at figure level.