.creations
Is .creations a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.creations is contested: 2 applications for it are on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. They are XYZ and Identity Digital.
A niche home for crafters and small makers; usable, but .design and .art already cover most of this ground.
artisans, crafters and small maker businesses (jewelry, cake, decor, handmade goods) whose trading name already ends in "Creations", plus hobby portfolio sites
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 soft plural noun naming creative output rather than a profession or industry, claimed as a primary identity by small creative operators who self-describe rather than belong to any licensed or countable trade.
Same bet on a vague plural output-noun that anyone can append to their own name with no gatekeeper or definable registrant pool, though it reads more toward trades and firms than toward makers.
Same bet on a self-applied creative-identity word with no credential behind it, bought by one-person and boutique makers, but it names the place of work instead of the thing produced.
What a .creations domain is
.creations is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under Culture. 2 applications for it are on ICANN’s Reveal Day list.
Is the .creations domain extension real yet?
.creations 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 .creations domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .creations name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .creations was .productions, delegated on 11 February 2014.
Is .creations a real TLD?
Not yet. .creations is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .creations is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
“OD2692T-T90332 · Oyster Dream, LLC · primary · contention set 2026-55 XL2625T-T24851 · XYZ.COM LLC · primary · contention set 2026-55”ICANN
“SS2654T-T57273 · Hair Apparent, LLC · primary XL2625T-T76256 · XYZ.COM LLC · replacement string of .expo · Deactivated”ICANN
- Band chosen: 30-49 (usable but limited). ".creations" is a long, plural, generic noun with no technical or geographic anchor; by analogy with other plural-generic strings from the 2012 round (.solutions, .services, .productions), such TLDs have tended to register on price and promotion rather than on brand pull, with thin aftermarkets (analogy, not a recorded figure). It is not in the 50-69 band because no category treats it as a primary-identity default: the creative-professional segment already has .design, .art and .studio as established choices, so adopting .creations needs explaining and competes against better-known siblings. It is not in the 10-29 band because "[Name] Creations" is a genuine and widespread small-business naming pattern among crafters, bakers, jewelers and event decorators, which gives the string a real, if modest, primary-identity use case rather than purely novelty demand. The verified record shows two confirmed applicants in contention set 2026-55, Oyster Dream, LLC and XYZ.COM LLC; the presence of an operator with an existing registrar-distribution footprint is stated neutrally and bears only on adoption likelihood, not on the string's intrinsic value. Main market uncertainty: whether the maker/artisan micro-business segment registers domains at all for primary identity over the next 5 years, or keeps living on marketplace and social-platform storefronts, which would push this toward the bottom of the band.