.campania
Is .campania a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.campania is not contested. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. It is Regione Campania.
A regional Italian geo-TLD: useful for Campania businesses and tourism, but .it stays the default and resale is thin.
businesses, tourism operators, public bodies and cultural projects rooted in the Campania region (Naples, Amalfi coast, Pompeii area) wanting a visibly local 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 sub-national administrative region's own name run as a regional identity namespace, where the regional body must persuade local firms and institutions to re-root their primary identity on a place label they already share.
Same bet: a named European region with a tourism-and-terroir reputation larger than its administrative function, monetized by selling that regional badge to the businesses inside it.
Same bet: a region whose brand equity is destination/produce recognition rather than a distinct language community, betting that the place name itself is the credential local businesses want.
What a .campania domain is
.campania is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under Places. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list.
Is the .campania domain extension real yet?
.campania 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 .campania domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .campania name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .campania was .alsace, delegated on 4 October 2014.
Is .campania a real TLD?
Not yet. .campania is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .campania is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- Regione Campania · first recordedICANN
- Band chosen: 30-49 (usable but limited). The string names a well-known Italian region with strong tourism and food identity, so there is genuine local demand for a place-based address, and sub-national geo TLDs run in earlier rounds (by analogy: regional strings for areas such as Bavaria, Brittany, Corsica, Alsace) did attract real local registrations and some primary-identity use by local businesses and public bodies. That keeps it out of the 10-29 vanity band: this is not a joke string and demand is not event-driven. It does not reach the 50-69 strong-niche band because the Italian market has a strong national ccTLD that local businesses default to, and by analogy regional geo TLDs have generally stayed small, with adoption concentrated in institutional and tourism use rather than becoming the obvious choice inside any category; aftermarket for regional geo strings has historically been thin. The verified facts show a single confirmed application by Regione Campania, a regional public body; public-sector applicants tend (analogy, flagged) to run geo TLDs more conservatively than commercial registries, which usually means slower marketing and lower volume. Main market uncertainty: whether the namespace is run as an open geo with registrar distribution and active promotion to local businesses, or as a largely institutional namespace for regional government and affiliates; the former would push the score toward the top of the band, the latter toward the bottom.