.bazaar
Is .bazaar a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody has applied for .bazaar in its own right, as of 7 October 2026. Radix named .bazaar as the replacement string of its .merch application.
A colorful word for a marketplace, but shoppers and sellers already have shorter commerce endings; demand will be thin.
small online marketplaces, multi-vendor shops and artisan or regional sellers, especially in South Asia, the Middle East and Central Asia where "bazaar" is everyday commerce vocabulary
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.
It is literally the same word in Arabic script, making the identical bet that a generic multi-vendor marketplace noun will pull merchants to put their storefront identity on a place-of-trade word rather than a brand.
Same bet class: an unowned generic noun for the place where many independent sellers trade, monetized by breadth of small merchant registrations rather than by any single operator's brand or community.
Also a plain commerce-premises noun sold to the same buyer (anyone selling something online), but it frames a single storefront rather than a crowded multi-seller marketplace, so the registrant pitch is narrower in kind.
What a .bazaar domain is
.bazaar is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under Commerce. Nobody has applied for .bazaar in its own right. It is named on ICANN’s list as part of an application for another string.
Is the .bazaar domain extension real yet?
.bazaar 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 .bazaar domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .bazaar name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .bazaar was .xn--mgbab2bd, delegated on 18 February 2014.
Is .bazaar a real TLD?
Not yet. .bazaar is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because ICANN’s list names .bazaar as part of an application for another string. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- Radix · first recordedICANN
“RTIS2674T-T23464 · Radix Technologies Inc SEZC · replacement string of .merch”ICANN
“LFGL2683T-T90578 · Link Freedom Group Ltd · primary · contention set 2026-213 PTL2645T-T73740 · Pirin Tablet, LLC · primary · contention set 2026-213 RTIS2674T-T99763 · Radix Technologies Inc SEZC · replacement string of .robotics · Deactivated VIL2659T-T55269 · Verse International Limited · replacement string of .did · Deactivated”ICANN
“Radix has applied for these TLDs; we do not own or operate them today.”Radix
- Band chosen: usable but limited (30-49), at its low edge. The string is a real, globally understood commerce word with warm cultural resonance in South Asia, the Middle East and Central Asia, so it is more than a vanity or joke ending and some genuine marketplace and artisan-seller registrations are plausible over the next 5 years; that keeps it above the 10-29 band. It is not a strong niche TLD (50-69) because the commerce namespace is already crowded with shorter, more literal endings, and by analogy the existing marketplace-flavored generics (.market, .shopping, .boutique and similar) have produced price-driven or defensive registrations rather than widespread primary-identity use or a real aftermarket; a six-letter string with an exotic connotation is unlikely to break that pattern. The only verified facts are that the application is on the ICANN Reveal Day list as a Radix Technologies Inc. replacement string tied to a primary .merch application; the replacement status is noted neutrally and bears on adoption only insofar as it signals the operator sees it as a secondary commerce play. Registration volume, pricing and any launch metrics are unknown. Main market uncertainty: whether regional e-commerce platforms in bazaar-speaking markets treat the ending as a credible marketplace identity or as a novelty, which is the difference between the top and bottom of this band.