.alsac
Is .alsac a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.alsac is not contested. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. It is ALSAC / St. Jude.
A closed charity brand extension: useful only to the organization that applied for it, with no public market or resale value.
the applicant charity itself and its own fundraising campaigns, events, and affiliate programs; no third-party registrants are expected
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 .alsac: a philanthropic organization putting its primary identity on an opaque four-letter acronym that means nothing to the public, so the string only ever works as owned, single-registrant infrastructure for the institution's own programs and donor audience.
Also a non-profit membership/supporter organization claiming its own initialism as its namespace, betting that the acronym plus its member-facing marketing carries the brand — though AARP enters with mass public name recognition that an arm's-length fundraising acronym does not.
Same structural bet of a mission-driven non-profit registering the short initials of a long formal name that its own constituency uses as shorthand, with the string serving institutional and affiliate sites rather than any open market.
What a .alsac domain is
.alsac is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under Brand. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list.
Is the .alsac domain extension real yet?
.alsac 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 .alsac domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .alsac name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .alsac was .akdn, delegated on 16 April 2016.
Is .alsac a real TLD?
Not yet. .alsac is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .alsac is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- ALSAC / St. Jude · first recordedICANN
“ALSA2663T-T53253 · American Lebanese Syrian Associated Charities, Inc. · primary”ICANN
- Band chosen: 10-29 (vanity/narrow). The record shows a single confirmed application from American Lebanese Syrian Associated Charities, Inc., and the string is the organization's own acronym, so this is a dot-brand by analogy to the single-registrant brand TLDs of the 2012 round. From my own knowledge (not from the facts block), ALSAC is publicly associated with fundraising for a major pediatric research hospital, which gives the string real end-use utility to its owner: branded campaign addresses, donor-facing links that are harder to spoof, and a trust signal in a sector where donation phishing is a known concern. It is not in the 30-49 band because there are no volume registrations, no price-driven demand, and no aftermarket at all: nobody but the owner can register, and names cannot be resold. It is not in the 1-9 band because, by analogy with brand TLDs that were actually put into service (as opposed to the many that were parked or later retired), a well-resourced owner with a continuous public-facing campaign cadence has a plausible, if modest, primary-identity use over the next 5 years. Main market uncertainty: whether the owner migrates donor-facing properties onto the string or keeps it defensive and dormant, which by analogy is the single largest determinant of whether a dot-brand delivers any utility at all.