.civic
Is .civic a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody has applied for .civic in its own right, as of 7 October 2026. Sense about Science named .civic as the replacement string of its .public application.
A clear word for civic groups and civic-tech projects, but .org already owns that identity, so demand should stay modest.
civic-tech startups, local engagement platforms, nonprofits and grassroots organisations wanting a public-interest label without competing for .org names
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 public-interest sector label whose only real value is signalling verified civic legitimacy, so the registry must police eligibility rather than sell volume — the difference is that NGO is the sector's own self-designation while civic is a looser adjective.
Same bet on a broad, open, civic-adjacent abstraction bought by associations, local groups and public-benefit outfits, with the same core problem of having to beat .org at the thing .org already means.
Also a generic word from the democratic-participation sphere sold to campaigns, election bodies and advocacy groups who need public trust, but it is a single narrow civic act rather than the whole public sphere, and its demand is episodic around elections.
What a .civic domain is
.civic 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 .civic in its own right. It is named on ICANN’s list as part of an application for another string.
Is the .civic domain extension real yet?
.civic 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 .civic domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .civic name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .civic was .ngo, delegated on 18 July 2014.
Is .civic a real TLD?
Not yet. .civic is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because ICANN’s list names .civic as part of an application for another string. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- Sense about Science · first recordedICANN
“SAS2677T-T15287 · Sense about Science · replacement string of .public”ICANN
- Band chosen: 30-49 (usable but limited). The string is a real, widely understood English word with a coherent meaning cluster (civic engagement, civic tech, civic institutions), so registrations should happen and some projects could plausibly use a .civic address as a primary identity. It is not in the 50-69 band because the public-interest namespace already has an entrenched default in .org, and no verified fact shows sustained demand or an aftermarket for the string; by analogy (flagged as analogy), community-flavoured generics such as .community and .vote launched with similar logic and settled into modest, price-driven volume rather than category-standard status. It is not in the 10-29 band because the word is serious rather than a joke or vanity term, and the civic-tech sector is an active buyer group that would find a short, descriptive label genuinely useful. On the record, the sole application is Sense about Science as a replacement string for its primary .public application; whether the registry would run as an open generic or with eligibility rules is unknown and would shape adoption. Main market uncertainty over the next 5 years: whether civic-tech and municipal-engagement projects adopt a dedicated label at all, or continue to default to .org and .com with a descriptive second-level name.