.classroom
Is .classroom a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.classroom is not contested. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. It is Google.
A clear education word, but most schools and teachers already have a home online, so demand stays small and brand lift is weak.
teachers, tutors, course creators and edtech products wanting a descriptive address for a class site, lesson hub or learning tool
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 plain, singular English noun for the place where teaching happens, bought by the institutions and educators who would hang their primary identity on it, and dependent on those institutions abandoning an entrenched legacy address (.edu, k12.*.us) for a descriptive one.
Also a generic education-venue noun open to anyone who teaches, but it reads as the name of an institution you found rather than a room you occupy, so the registrant skews to course-sellers and personal brands instead of actual schools.
The same category bet aimed at the same buyers, but it is the abstract field noun rather than a concrete place, so it works as a sector label for organizations instead of something a single teacher or product would put its identity on.
What a .classroom domain is
.classroom is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under Culture. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list.
Is the .classroom domain extension real yet?
.classroom 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 .classroom domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .classroom name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .classroom was .school, delegated on 19 February 2015.
Is .classroom a real TLD?
Not yet. .classroom is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .classroom is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- Google · first recordedICANN
“CRRI2564-T10638 · Charleston Road Registry Inc. · primary”ICANN
- Band chosen: 30-49, usable but limited. The string is an everyday English noun with an unambiguous education meaning, so registrations at volume are plausible for class pages, tutoring sites and course products, and a serious edtech project could use it as a primary identity without confusion. It is not in the 50-69 band because the closest existing education strings (.school, .education, .academy, .courses — analogy) have, in my qualitative read, produced modest registration bases and thin aftermarkets, with most schools and universities anchored on .edu, country-code or .org addresses; .classroom is longer and narrower than .school and would likely trail it. It is not in the 10-29 band because the use case is real and durable rather than event-driven or jokey, and a teacher-facing or learning-tool business can plausibly treat it as a primary address. The sole recorded applicant is Charleston Road Registry Inc. (confirmed, one application on the record, no contention); the string overlaps the name of a widely used education product, which could support adoption through integrations or could narrow the buyer pool to that ecosystem — inferred from the string, not from the record. Main market uncertainty: whether independent educators and edtech firms adopt a string that reads as tied to a specific product, versus choosing neutral .com or education-generic alternatives; price positioning and any channel promotion are unknown.