.come
Is .come a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.come is not contested. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. It is .TOP Registry.
Reads as a typo of .com; some invitation-style and defensive demand, but few serious projects would make it their main address.
promoters of events, campaigns and destinations who want an invitation-style address ("come.to-style" phrasing), plus .com brand owners registering defensively
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.
Identical bet: a string that is literally the word "dot com" restated, sold to any commercial registrant purely on borrowed .com equity rather than on any meaning of its own.
Same borrowed-equity play — "com" rendered one step away from the original so that the registry's entire pitch is adjacency to the default commercial namespace, which is exactly what an extra letter buys .come.
A Latin-script derivative of "com" aimed at the same undifferentiated commercial everybody, but it earns its meaning as a commerce abbreviation rather than living or dying on being mistaken for the incumbent.
What a .come domain is
.come 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 .come domain extension real yet?
.come 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 .come domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .come name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .come was .xn--mk1bu44c, delegated on 28 July 2015.
Is .come a real TLD?
Not yet. .come is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .come is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- .TOP Registry · first recordedICANN
“HKZI2636T-T87691 · Hong Kong Zhongze International Limited · primary”ICANN
“HKZI2636T-T79772 · Hong Kong Zhongze International Limited · replacement string of .bit · Deactivated LFGL2683T-T38036 · Link Freedom Group Ltd · primary”ICANN
- Band chosen: 10-29 (vanity/joke/narrow). The string is an English imperative verb and also an Italian word ("how/as") and a Spanish verb form, so it has some natural phrasing uses ("come to X", invitations, event and tourism promotion), but its dominant market reading is as a one-letter extension of .com, which makes a brand on .come look like a typo rather than a chosen identity. It is not in the 30-49 band because volume registration would depend on typo-traffic or defensive registrations by .com holders rather than on genuine primary-identity demand, and the brand signal is negative (confusion with .com) rather than merely weak. It is not in the 1-9 band because, by analogy (flagged as analogy), strings that sit visually close to .com have historically attracted real if low-quality registration activity and some aftermarket interest in short generic labels, and the multilingual dictionary meaning gives a sliver of creative use. The single confirmed applicant on the record, Hong Kong Zhongze International Limited, is noted neutrally; no channel, pricing or launch-plan facts are in the verified block, so adoption likelihood is unknown and reasoned only from the string. Main market uncertainty: whether .com brand holders treat .come as a defensive-registration necessity at scale, which would lift volume toward the usable-but-limited band without changing its primary-identity weakness.