.christian
Is .christian a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody has applied for .christian in its own right, as of 7 October 2026. Phoenix Domain Partners named .christian as the replacement string of its .therapy application.
A faith-identity label with a huge audience but little reason to use it as a main address; expect cheap registrations, not a brand.
christian ministries, bloggers, podcasters, dating and media projects, and small churches or schools wanting an explicit faith label; mostly a secondary or descriptive address beside an existing .org or .com
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 almost exactly: a broad world-faith's own label, where the value comes from speaking for an entire belief community that has no single governing authority, so the string's whole viability rests on whether one applicant can be accepted as its legitimate steward.
Also a faith-identity label that adherents and their institutions would put their primary identity on, with the same registry-as-custodian-of-a-creed bet, differing only in that one obvious institutional authority exists to claim it.
Same kind of word doing the same job -- the name believers call themselves, sold to co-religionists as an identity space -- but the bet is narrower, a single denomination with a clear owner rather than a whole faith's contested name.
What a .christian domain is
.christian 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 .christian in its own right. It is named on ICANN’s list as part of an application for another string.
Is the .christian domain extension real yet?
.christian 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 .christian domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .christian name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens.
Is .christian a real TLD?
Not yet. .christian is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because ICANN’s list names .christian as part of an application for another string. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- Phoenix Domain Partners · first recordedICANN
“MLG2688T-T30008 · 101130013 Saskatchewan Ltd. · replacement string of .therapy”ICANN
“MLG2688T-T61684 · 101130013 Saskatchewan Ltd. · replacement string of .beach · Deactivated XL2625T-T45963 · XYZ.COM LLC · replacement string of .mart · Deactivated”ICANN
“Phoenix Domain Partners published 13 strings for which it says it has applied and paid the application fees.”Domain Name Wire
- Band chosen: 30-49 (usable but limited). The string names one of the largest affinity groups worldwide, so there is a durable, non-event-driven pool of possible registrants: ministries, bloggers, podcasters, music and publishing projects, dating services, schools. By analogy (flagged as analogy) with .church, which found genuine but modest primary-identity use among congregations while most established religious bodies stayed on .org and .com, and with adjective/affinity strings such as .gay or .faith, which registered at volume on price without producing a meaningful aftermarket, I expect .christian to be adopted mainly as a descriptive or secondary address. It is not in the 50-69 band because there is no analogous religion or affinity TLD that reached sustained primary-identity use with a real aftermarket, and the institutional need is already partly served by .church and .org. It is not in the 10-29 band because the audience is large, stable, and not tied to a single event, so registrations should persist rather than spike and fade. Applicant facts, stated neutrally from the record: one application, a replacement string from the applicant of .therapy, no category tag and no community affiliation recorded; this suggests a portfolio-style rather than community-anchored launch, which tends to slow trust-driven adoption among faith organizations. Main market uncertainty: whether Christian organizations and creators will treat an adjective TLD as a credible primary identity at all, versus keeping .org/.com and treating .christian as a redirect. Exact registration counts, pricing, and comparable TLD volumes are unknown and I assert none.