.canva
Is .canva a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.canva is not contested. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. It is Canva Pty Ltd.
A closed company-owned namespace: useful only to Canva for its own sites, with no public registrations or resale market.
the applicant brand itself, for its own product, campaign, and regional sites; no third-party buyers are expected
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 single company's deliberately respelled English word (flicker/canvas) used as the corporate namespace for a consumer visual-creation web product, so the string is worth nothing to anyone but its owner and depends entirely on that brand's recognition.
Same bet: a proprietary brand string owned by one firm selling self-serve design output to non-designers and small businesses, where the TLD is a marketing wrapper around an existing product funnel rather than a market anyone else can enter.
Same bet in kind — a coined, meaningless-until-branded name for a global freemium consumer software company putting its primary identity on the string — but a communications utility rather than a creative tool, and already an acquired brand inside a larger parent at the time.
What a .canva domain is
.canva is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under Brand. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list.
Is the .canva domain extension real yet?
.canva 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 .canva domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .canva name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .canva was .flickr, delegated on 13 February 2016.
Is .canva a real TLD?
Not yet. .canva is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .canva is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- Canva Pty Ltd · first recordedICANN
- The verified facts show a single confirmed application from Canva Pty Ltd, which reads as a dot-brand TLD rather than an open namespace. By analogy with dot-brand TLDs from the earlier round (flagged as analogy), most brand owners kept such strings closed, used them lightly for redirects, campaign pages, or a handful of internal names, and a few retired them; only a minority moved their primary web identity onto the brand TLD. Band chosen: 10-29 (vanity/narrow). It is not in 30-49 because registrations at volume or on price are not possible when the only registrant is the brand owner, and there is no aftermarket at all. It is not in 1-9 because the string has one well-defined serious user who could plausibly put real product or marketing surfaces on it over the next 5 years, so it has a realistic if narrow market of exactly one. Main market uncertainty: whether the brand chooses to make .canva a primary customer-facing identity (e.g., user-facing product or template links) rather than a defensive or redirect-only holding; the former would push the score toward the top of the band, the latter toward the bottom.