.clear
Is .clear a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.clear is not contested. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. It is Identity Digital.
A likeable adjective with phrase appeal, but no industry owns it; expect promo-driven registrations, not primary identities.
small brands and hobby projects wanting a phrase-style name (crystal.clear, all.clear) or a transparency/clarity positioning in skincare, water, wellness or fintech clearing, plus domain investors buying on promo pricing
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 short, positive English adjective with no category or registrant population of its own, so it can only be sold on the connotation it lends to whatever sits left of the dot.
Same bet: an abstract quality adjective that works as a universal qualifier rather than a vertical, so demand has to come from anyone wanting the attribute, plus any company literally named that word.
Same bet shape — a single-word trust/assurance adjective that doubles as a corporate name — but its promise is narrower and more compliance-flavoured than the general-purpose clarity claim.
What a .clear domain is
.clear is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under Brand. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list.
Is the .clear domain extension real yet?
.clear 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 .clear domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .clear name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .clear was .best, delegated on 27 February 2014.
Is .clear a real TLD?
Not yet. .clear is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .clear is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- Identity Digital · first recordedICANN
“VTL2632T-T14662 · Velvet Taupe, LLC · replacement string of .inn VTL2632T-T46338 · Velvet Taupe, LLC · replacement string of .sdk VTL2632T-T72986 · Velvet Taupe, LLC · replacement string of .ball VTL2632T-T88824 · Velvet Taupe, LLC · replacement string of .brand”ICANN
- Band chosen: 10-29 (vanity/narrow), near its top. The string is a positive, short English adjective with natural phrase construction (crystal.clear, all.clear, coast.is.clear) and loose brand-fit across clarity/transparency themes — skincare, water, wellness, legal plain-language, financial clearing — but none of those verticals treats "clear" as its identity word, so a serious project would need to explain the choice and would most likely keep a .com as primary. By analogy (flagged as analogy), open adjective TLDs such as .cool, .best and .fun drew registrations mainly through registrar price promotions and phrase-domain novelty, with weak renewal cohorts and a thin aftermarket; .clear reads the same way. It is not in the 30-49 band because there is no reason to expect volume or sustained price-driven demand beyond promo cycles, and the brand signal is ambiguous (clear what?). It is not in the 1-9 band because the word is common, upbeat and phrase-friendly enough that some real registrations and a few genuine primary-identity uses (a transparency-branded product, a clearing-services startup) are plausible within 5 years. Applicant facts on the record: one application, Velvet Taupe, LLC, status confirmed, no category tag, single-applicant contention; the applicant is unknown to me, so adoption likelihood cannot be adjusted either way from operator track record. Main market uncertainty: whether the registry positions .clear as an open generic with broad registrar carriage and promo pricing (phrase/novelty volume) or as a narrow brand-adjacent namespace (near-zero public market) — the two paths differ by a full band.