.casting
Is .casting a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody is chasing .casting, as of 7 October 2026. One applicant claimed it and is out. We keep the entry on the record either way.
- Journey To The West
A niche word split between film auditions and metal foundries; memorable, but neither market treats such addresses as serious identities.
casting directors, talent agencies, and audition platforms in film, TV, and modeling; secondarily metal-casting foundries and industrial suppliers, the meaning the applicant's catalog leans toward
In Journey To The West's published portfolio of 323 strings submitted in the ICANN 2026 round. Their catalog line: “Molten material, poured into precision.”
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: an activity noun naming a service function inside the screen/stage trade, whose primary registrants are small B2B shops that already put that exact word in their company name, so it works only if a niche craft vertical can sustain its own namespace.
Sits on the other side of the same transaction and rests on the same entertainment-vertical thesis, but it is a profession/person noun sold as individual identity rather than an activity noun sold to agencies and services.
The cleanest structural twin ignoring topic: a gerund for a specialized service function supporting a larger industry, bought by small independent firms as their primary business identity, with no consumer-side demand to fall back on.
What a .casting domain is
.casting is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under Culture. Nobody is chasing .casting today. The applicants that claimed it are out.
Is the .casting domain extension real yet?
.casting 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 .casting domain?
You can’t yet. A .casting name can only be registered once the string is delegated (added to the DNS root) and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .casting was .productions, delegated on 11 February 2014.
Is .casting a real TLD?
Not yet. .casting is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because an applicant claimed .casting and is no longer in it. We keep the entry, and every entry on this page links to its source.
- Journey To The West · now abandonedICANN
- Journey To The West · first recordedJourney To The West Corporation
“.casting · Trade & Logistics · “Molten material, poured into precision.””Journey To The West Corporation
- The string carries two unrelated meanings — entertainment casting (the dominant consumer sense in English, and a common loanword in European and Latin American markets) and industrial metal casting, which the applicant's catalog phrasing targets. By analogy, occupational and entertainment-adjacent TLDs from the 2012 round (.actor, .catering, .plumbing) settled into thin, price-driven registration bases with weak aftermarkets and little primary-identity use, and there is no visible sign either casting industry behaves differently. The talent meaning also carries an adult-content connotation that can deter mainstream agencies from adopting it as a brand. This lands it in the 10-29 vanity/narrow band: above the 1-9 floor because two identifiable buyer groups exist and the word is genuinely memorable, but below 30-49 because volume registration on price alone looks unlikely and the brand signal is split and partly tainted. Main market uncertainty: whether the entertainment sense wins registrations and any notable audition platform adopts it as primary identity — or whether adult-industry use dominates the namespace and caps mainstream demand. The applicant is a Beijing portfolio applicant with a published catalog of 323 submitted strings, which is consistent with a broad generic-portfolio strategy rather than concentrated single-string market development.