.board
Is .board a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.board is not contested. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. It is Identity Digital. XYZ named .board as a backup string for its .creations application. ICANN deactivated it, because another applicant applied for the same string or named it as a backup. GoDaddy Registry named .board as a backup string for its .stay application. ICANN deactivated it, because another applicant applied for the same string or named it as a backup. Intercap named .board as a backup string for its .pod application. ICANN deactivated it, because another applicant applied for the same string or named it as a backup.
A broad word with scattered uses—surfboards, boardrooms, board games—but no single community likely to adopt it as a default address.
board-sport brands (surf, skate, snow), board-game publishers, and board-governance or community-forum products that want a short dictionary-word address; secondarily hobbyist and message-board sites
Named on the ICANN gTLD application list, 7 October 2026 as a replacement (backup) string of the applicant's .pod application, shown as deactivated: another applicant applied for the same string or named it as a backup
Named on the ICANN gTLD application list, 7 October 2026 as a replacement (backup) string of the applicant's .stay application, shown as deactivated: another applicant applied for the same string or named it as a backup
Named on the ICANN gTLD application list, 7 October 2026 as a replacement (backup) string of the applicant's .creations application, shown as deactivated: another applicant applied for the same string or named it as a backup
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 plain English collective-entity noun that an organization bolts onto its own name to label the governing body itself, so the registry lives or dies on broad self-identification demand rather than on any one industry or owner.
Also an unowned, generic noun for a constituted body of people that any company, club, or department can put its primary identity on, with the same reliance on volume of small registrants rather than a defined community.
Parallel bet on a generic venue-for-deliberation word whose value rests on registrants wanting the word's function (a place where a group convenes or posts) attached to their name, the same wager .board makes in its message-board sense.
What a .board domain is
.board is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under Commerce. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list.
Is the .board domain extension real yet?
.board 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 .board domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .board name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .board was .group, delegated on 8 August 2015.
Is .board a real TLD?
Not yet. .board is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .board is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
“IRI2679T-T33387 · Intercap Registry Inc. · replacement string of .pod · Deactivated NA2631T-T44830 · Registry Services, LLC · replacement string of .stay · Deactivated PTL2645T-T84550 · Pirin Tablet, LLC · primary XL2625T-T24851 · XYZ.COM LLC · replacement string of .creations · Deactivated”ICANN
- Band chosen: 30-49, usable but limited. The string is a common English noun whose meanings are spread across unrelated markets: board sports, board games, circuit boards, message boards, boards of directors and board-management software. That breadth is a weakness rather than a strength: no one of those groups is large or cohesive enough to treat .board as its natural namespace, so adoption would need explaining in each. It is not in the 50-69 band because, by analogy (flagged), single-hobby generics such as .surf, .ski or .golf saw modest, price-sensitive registration and little genuine primary-identity use, and .board splits its appeal across several such hobbies plus a corporate-governance sense that leans on .com habits. It is not in the 10-29 band because it is a real commercial noun with several plausible end uses (a surf or skate brand, a board-game studio, a governance SaaS, a community forum), so volume registrations on price and some sustained end-use are realistic, which is more than a joke or event-driven string. Applicant facts on the record: one confirmed application from Pirin Tablet, LLC; nothing else about the operating plan is in the verified facts, so launch pricing, policy and channel are unknown. Main market uncertainty: whether any one of the candidate communities (most plausibly board sports or board games) actually coalesces around the string, versus the TLD staying a scattered dictionary-word registry.