.certified
Is .certified a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody has applied for .certified in its own right, as of 7 October 2026. Radix named .certified as the replacement string of its .advisory application.
Sounds like a credential but confers none; a narrow label for certifiers and professionals, rarely a serious primary web address.
certification bodies, training providers and licensed professionals (accountants, coaches, inspectors, translators) who want the word "certified" visible in their address; secondarily marketers of certified products (organic, pre-owned, refurbished)
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 generic self-applied competence label with no inherent owner, sold to any practitioner or firm willing to pay to wear a credibility claim as its primary address, and worth something only if the registry polices who may assert it.
Also an abstract assurance word whose entire value is third-party credibility conferred by the suffix rather than by any category or company, so it lives or dies on verified eligibility instead of volume registration.
Another adjective that asserts a vetted state about its registrant, making the same wager that buyers will pay for a suffix that reads as an attestation — and collapsing into meaningless puffery the moment anyone can buy it.
What a .certified domain is
.certified is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under Commerce. Nobody has applied for .certified in its own right. It is named on ICANN’s list as part of an application for another string.
Is the .certified domain extension real yet?
.certified 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 .certified domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .certified name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .certified was .expert, delegated on 23 January 2014.
Is .certified a real TLD?
Not yet. .certified is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because ICANN’s list names .certified as part of an application for another string. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- Radix · first recordedICANN
“RTIS2674T-T62305 · Radix Technologies Inc SEZC · replacement string of .advisory”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: 10-29 (vanity/narrow). The string is a descriptive adjective, not a noun category, and its meaning is a claim of verification that an open TLD cannot itself back up; buyers who care about certification generally want the credential verified by the issuing body, not implied by a domain suffix. By analogy (flagged as analogy), descriptive-credential strings such as .expert, .guru and .pro saw modest volume, weak aftermarket pricing and limited primary-identity use, with much of the demand being defensive or vanity; .certified is longer than those and its sense is even more dependent on an external authority, which argues for the same or slightly weaker outcome. It is not in the 30-49 band because I do not expect registrations at volume or on price to be the pattern: there is no obvious mass-market buyer, and the natural buyers (certification bodies, licensed professionals) are a thin, dispersed group who already have strong .com/.org/ccTLD identities. It is not in the 1-9 band because a real, if narrow, use case exists: a certification program or a professional service can plausibly use name.certified as a memorable campaign or secondary address, and some small set would adopt it as a primary identity. The applicant on the record, Radix Technologies Inc., filed it as a replacement string for a primary application for .advisory; I treat that neutrally and note only that a replacement application does not by itself indicate a dedicated go-to-market, which slightly lowers my confidence in strong adoption effort. Main market uncertainty: whether a channel-led, low-price generic-TLD launch can convert the professional-services segment into renewing primary-identity registrants, or whether demand stays event-driven and defensive. Specific figures for comparable TLDs are unknown to me under the rules here and I reason only qualitatively.