.astro
Is .astro a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.astro is not contested. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. It is Qaten.
A pleasant short word for astrology, astronomy and space brands, but most serious projects will still keep their main address elsewhere.
astrology practitioners and apps, astronomy hobbyists and clubs, and space-tech or "astro"-prefixed startups wanting a themed secondary address
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: a clipped Greek-derived combining form that a single discipline's own practitioners use as their everyday shorthand, so the registry depends on that field's professionals accepting an abbreviation as their primary identity rather than the full word.
Same bet: a short scientific prefix that is not a standalone word, sold open to anyone who reads their own field into it, so value rests on the morpheme carrying several plausible meanings at once instead of one defined registrant class.
Same bet at the field level — a subject-matter zone offered to everyone identifying with that domain — but it is a complete common noun with wide non-field usage, where the target is a bounded prefix only the field's insiders claim.
What a .astro domain is
.astro is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under Culture. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list.
Is the .astro domain extension real yet?
.astro 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 .astro domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .astro name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .astro was .physio, delegated on 19 June 2014.
Is .astro a real TLD?
Not yet. .astro is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .astro is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- Qaten · first recordedICANN
“LMDL2690T-T89453 · La maison Digitale Ltd · primary”ICANN
- Band chosen: 30-49, usable but limited. The string is short, pronounceable and carries real semantic pull in several directions at once: astrology (a sizeable consumer-app and content category), astronomy and astrophysics communities, space-tech startups that already use 'astro' as a brand prefix, and the Astro web-framework developer community. That spread of meanings is also the weakness: no single community owns the word, so the TLD does not read as a category standard to anyone. By analogy (flagged as analogy), thematic word TLDs such as .space and .science have drawn registrations largely at volume or on promotional price, with the names used as side projects, landers or redirects rather than as the primary identity of a funded business, and their aftermarkets have stayed thin. It is not in the 50-69 band because there is no evidence of sustained demand where a serious astrology, astronomy or space project would choose a .astro address as its main identity without explanation; the obvious buyers in those categories tend to anchor on legacy or app-style endings. It is not in the 10-29 band because the word is not a joke or a narrow event string: it has multiple durable hobbyist and commercial communities that can be expected to register at modest volume over the next 5 years, giving it a realistic if shallow market. The single applicant on the record is La maison Digitale Ltd (status confirmed), with a .paws application from the same applicant recorded as a replacement naming .astro as primary; this is stated neutrally and only as an adoption-likelihood input, since a small operator's distribution and marketing reach is the main driver of how far a niche word TLD gets. Main market uncertainty: which meaning wins. If the registry and channel partners successfully position it toward the astrology consumer market, demand could be broader and more brand-driven than the astronomy/developer reading; if it stays a hobbyist-space term, it behaves like other low-priced thematic strings.