.class
Is .class a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.class is contested: 2 applications for it are on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. They are Squarespace and GoDaddy Registry. XYZ named .class as a backup string for its .consultants application. ICANN deactivated it, because another applicant applied for the same string.
A clear word for courses, teachers and training sites, but most will still explain why they didn't just use .com.
online course creators, tutors, schools and training businesses that sell or run classes, plus a smaller set of "first.class"-style phrase buyers
Named on the ICANN gTLD application list, 7 October 2026 as a replacement (backup) string of the applicant's .consultants application, shown as deactivated: another applicant applied for the same string
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 open-registry generic noun for the unit of instruction itself, sold to anyone who teaches anything (studios, bootcamps, tutors, corporate training) rather than to an institution that owns a campus.
Also a short, warm, everyday education word priced for mass registration, but it asks the registrant to claim institutional standing, whereas .class asks only that they hold a session.
The same category-noun-for-education bet at the same generic altitude, but the primary identity it offers is an establishment's, not a single offering's, so the buyer skews to accredited bodies instead of individual instructors.
What a .class domain is
.class is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under Other. 2 applications for it are on ICANN’s Reveal Day list.
Is the .class domain extension real yet?
.class is not yet a domain extension you can register: nothing resolves under it, and no registrar sells names in it. It is a string applicants have put forward in the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, the process that decides whether it becomes one.
When can you buy a .class domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .class name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .class was .courses, delegated on 25 February 2015.
Is .class a real TLD?
Not yet. .class is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .class is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
“NA2631T-T90832 · Registry Services, LLC · primary · contention set 2026-40 SRL2616T-T28234 · Squarespace Registry LLC · primary · contention set 2026-40 XL2625T-T91094 · XYZ.COM LLC · replacement string of .consultants · Deactivated”ICANN
“NA2631T-T90832 · Registry Services, LLC · primary · contention set 2026-40 SRL2616T-T28234 · Squarespace Registry LLC · primary · contention set 2026-40”ICANN
- Band chosen: 30-49 (usable but limited), near the top of it. "Class" is a short, common English word with an obvious primary meaning (a course or lesson) and secondary meanings (status, category, a programming construct), so the string reads instantly and supports natural phrase names such as yoga.class or first.class. By analogy to existing education-flavoured TLDs such as .academy, .school, .education, .courses and .training (analogy, not data), demand is real but mostly supplementary: course creators and tutors register them, yet most serious education brands still make a .com their primary identity and treat these as redirects or project names, and aftermarket resale on them is thin outside a handful of dictionary words. That pattern keeps .class out of the 50-69 band, where primary-identity use is sustained rather than occasional. It sits above the 10-29 band because the word is not a joke or an event: solo educators, cohort-course sellers and training firms are a large, durable buyer group, and the string is generic enough to be useful without explaining what it means. The record shows two confirmed applicants in one contention set (and a .skills application tied to this string as a replacement), which I use only to infer that more than one operator sees a market; the outcome is assumed per the rules. Main market uncertainty: whether the online-course and creator-education segment adopts a dedicated TLD as primary identity at all, or whether course platforms that host instructors under their own brands absorb that demand, leaving .class as a vanity-redirect namespace over the next 5 years.