.arzt
Is .arzt a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody has applied for .arzt in its own right, as of 7 October 2026. index Internet und Mediaforschung GmbH named .arzt as the replacement string of its .praxis application.
A German-language doctor's address: memorable for a practice website, but most physicians will keep using .de.
German-speaking physicians and medical practices (Germany, Austria, Switzerland) wanting a short practice address, plus a few health directories and clinic groups
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 exactly: a single-language, regulated-profession noun whose only possible registrants are credentialed practitioners in one language market, so value hinges on professional-body adoption and eligibility verification rather than on open generic demand.
The identical profession and the identical buyer — an individual practitioner or practice putting its primary identity on its own occupation — differing only in being the English/global form rather than a German-bounded one.
Also a German-language occupation noun sold to individual practitioners inside one language market, so the language-bounded practitioner bet matches, though the occupation is a commercial advisory role rather than a licensed clinical one with a statutory register behind it.
What a .arzt domain is
.arzt is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under Other. Nobody has applied for .arzt in its own right. It is named on ICANN’s list as part of an application for another string.
Is the .arzt domain extension real yet?
.arzt 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 .arzt domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .arzt name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .arzt was .abogado, delegated on 15 October 2014.
Is .arzt a real TLD?
Not yet. .arzt is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because ICANN’s list names .arzt as part of an application for another string. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- index Internet und Mediaforschung GmbH · first recordedICANN
“IIUM2696T-T97372 · index Internet und Mediaforschung GmbH · replacement string of .praxis”ICANN
- Band chosen: 10-29 (narrow), at its top. "Arzt" is the German word for physician, so the buyer pool is one profession in one language region, and in that region .de (and .at/.ch) is the unexplained default for a practice website; a .arzt address needs explaining to patients and to the conservative practice owners who would buy it. By analogy (inference, not record): profession-specific English gTLDs such as .doctor and .dentist have seen genuine but small primary-identity use and a thin aftermarket; .lawyer/.attorney did somewhat better because lawyers market more aggressively. A German-only profession string is narrower still than those, and the profession's marketing is constrained by professional-conduct rules, which dampens the premium-keyword resale that drives aftermarket value elsewhere. It is not in the 30-49 band because registrations are unlikely to happen at volume or on price: the addressable base is bounded by the number of German-speaking practices, and a hypothetical practice would typically add .arzt as a redirect rather than a primary identity. It is not in the 1-9 band because the use case is real and non-event-driven: a physician's practice site under name.arzt is a plausible, durable primary identity, and the word is unambiguous and fully generic in its language. On the record, the applicant is index Internet und Mediaforschung GmbH, with .arzt filed as the replacement string for a primary .praxis application; contention count is zero; the record carries no category tag. A sole applicant on a replacement string suggests a measured, niche rollout rather than a mass-market push (inference). Main market uncertainty: whether German physicians will treat a language-specific professional TLD as a credibility signal worth switching to, or as an oddity next to .de; a second uncertainty is whether the title-protected status of "Arzt" leads to eligibility-restricted registration, which would raise trust value while shrinking volume. Registration volumes, pricing and launch dates are unknown.