.alumni
Is .alumni a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.alumni is not contested. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. It is Kingfish LLC.
A clear, descriptive label for alumni networks, but most schools already have a trusted home and rarely need a new address.
alumni associations, university advancement offices, and company or program alumni networks that want a short, self-describing address separate from the parent institution's site
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 .alumni in kind: a noun whose only meaning is an earned academic affiliation, so the registrant is buying proof of status rather than a commercial category, and the string only works if people and schools treat a credential as an address.
The identical sector bet with the identical institutional buyer — the school's own marketing or advancement office putting primary identity on a generic education noun — differing only in that it names the institution while .alumni names the people it produced.
Both are affiliation nouns whose value depends on a controlling body verifying entitlement before a name is granted, so the bet is on gated membership identity flowing from an association to its verified members, not on open category sales.
What a .alumni domain is
.alumni is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under Other. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list.
Is the .alumni domain extension real yet?
.alumni 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 .alumni domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .alumni name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .alumni was .mba, delegated on 22 May 2015.
Is .alumni a real TLD?
Not yet. .alumni is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .alumni is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- Kingfish LLC · first recordedICANN
“A2652T-T75760 · Zero Gravity Labs Inc. · primary · contention set 2026-203 ILCL2673T-T48612 · Internet Land & Cattle LLC · primary · contention set 2026-203 IRI2679T-T49225 · Intercap Registry Inc. · primary · contention set 2026-203 ITL2677T-T15916 · Ipollo Tech Ltd · primary · contention set 2026-203 KKWT2621T-T94110 · Knock Knock WHOIS There, LLC · primary · contention set 2026-203 KL2668T-T28867 · Kingfish LLC · replacement string of .alumni · Deactivated LFGL2683T-T19307 · Link Freedom Group Ltd · primary · contention set 2026-203 NA2631T-T22456 · Registry Services, LLC · primary · contention set 2026-203 PB2674T-T61547 · Paws Button, LLC · primary · contention set 2026-203 PCOC2554-T97118 · Pingyang Chamber of Commerce in Haishu District of Ningbo · primary · contention set 2026-203”ICANN
- Band chosen: 10-29 (vanity/narrow), at its upper edge. The string is instantly understood and maps to a real, budgeted buyer group, which keeps it out of the 1-9 band. It is not in the 30-49 band because registration volume is structurally capped: the pool of institutions with alumni programmes is small, and most of them already run alumni sites as subdomains of an institutional .edu or country-code academic domain that carries more trust than any new string could; a .alumni name would mostly be a defensive or redirect registration rather than a primary identity. By analogy (flagged as analogy), education-themed strings from the 2012 round such as .education, .academy, .college and .university reached modest, price-sensitive registration counts and thin aftermarkets, and .alumni is narrower than any of them because it names one function inside an institution rather than the institution itself. The more plausible primary-identity use is outside universities: corporate, military, programme or bootcamp alumni networks that lack a parent domain and want a self-describing address, but that demand is diffuse and unlikely to generate aftermarket premiums. Operator facts on the record: one confirmed applicant, Kingfish LLC, with no contention recorded; actual registry policy, pricing and eligibility rules are unknown. Main market uncertainty: whether universities treat the string as a brand-protection trickle or whether company and programme alumni networks adopt it as a genuine primary identity over the next 5 years.