.canvas
Is .canvas a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody has applied for .canvas in its own right, as of 7 October 2026. Radix named .canvas as the replacement string of its .portfolio application.
A creative-sounding word that suits artist portfolios and design tools, but .art and .design already serve that space.
artists, designers and creative-tool makers wanting a portfolio or product address, plus AI image and design products that borrow the "canvas" metaphor
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.
Same bet: a short material-of-the-craft noun rather than a trade or category name, with no constituency that already calls itself by the word, so it has to be sold as an evocative blank-slate label to creative makers and brands.
Also a common object/place noun adopted as primary identity by creative practitioners and tool companies, though 'studio' names something people actually say they have, giving it a native base that a medium word like canvas lacks.
Same structural bet of an abstract surface-or-area word with no owning profession or community, monetized purely on how brandable and open-ended the dictionary word feels.
What a .canvas domain is
.canvas is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under Culture. Nobody has applied for .canvas in its own right. It is named on ICANN’s list as part of an application for another string.
Is the .canvas domain extension real yet?
.canvas 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 .canvas domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .canvas name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .canvas was .ink, delegated on 11 March 2014.
Is .canvas a real TLD?
Not yet. .canvas is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because ICANN’s list names .canvas as part of an application for another string. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- Radix · first recordedICANN
“RTIS2674T-T39302 · Radix Technologies Inc SEZC · replacement string of .portfolio”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: 30-49 (usable but limited). The string is a real, positively connoted dictionary word with several serious meanings: the painter's canvas, the portfolio or workspace metaphor used by creative software, the HTML canvas element, and the business-model canvas. That gives it genuine primary-identity use cases for artists, designers and creative-tool products, which is why it is not in the 10-29 band: it is neither a joke nor an event-driven string, and a design studio or an AI image tool could plausibly adopt an address on it without embarrassment. It is not in the 50-69 band because no single community would default to it: by analogy (flagged as analogy), the creative-portfolio demand it targets is already addressed by more direct strings such as .design, .art, .studio and .gallery, which in my qualitative read have achieved niche rather than category-standard adoption themselves; a synonym one step removed from those is likely to capture a thinner slice, and its adoption would need explaining. The word is also heavily used in established product brands in design software and education, which by analogy tends to constrain how freely a TLD can position itself as an independent brand signal and may complicate premium-name marketing. Actual registration volumes, pricing and aftermarket figures for the analogs are unknown to me under the rules here and are not asserted. On the record, the only application is from Radix as a replacement string whose primary string is .portfolio, which neutrally suggests the string may be treated as a secondary option rather than a flagship, informing how much launch marketing it would receive; the TLD is nonetheless scored as delegated and generally available. Main market uncertainty: whether creative-sector registrants who already have .design and .art available will spread demand to another synonym, or whether that demand is effectively saturated, leaving .canvas as a low-volume, price-driven string.