.crm
Is .crm a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.crm is contested: 2 applications for it are on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. They are XYZ and GoDaddy Registry.
A clear business-software label that CRM consultants and tools may use, but most will keep their main brand on a mainstream domain.
crm consultancies, integrators, and SaaS vendors with CRM product lines, plus agencies selling sales-and-marketing tooling who want a descriptive address for a service or product microsite
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 exactly: a three-letter insider acronym for a B2B operational-software category that no single firm owns, sold to the vendors, resellers and consultants orbiting that system, and it only works if the vertical reads the letters without being told.
Also an industry-jargon acronym open to every firm in one commercial vertical, with the same dependency on insider literacy, but the buyers are trading operators putting money-product identity on it rather than software vendors naming a tooling category.
Same buyer pool and job — a generic enterprise-software function that SaaS vendors, agencies and consultancies would brand on — but it is a plain legible noun rather than an acronym, so it carries broader non-specialist demand and less insider lock-in.
What a .crm domain is
.crm is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under AI & tech. 2 applications for it are on ICANN’s Reveal Day list.
Is the .crm domain extension real yet?
.crm 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 .crm domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .crm name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .crm was .crs, delegated on 15 October 2014.
Is .crm a real TLD?
Not yet. .crm is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .crm is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
“NA2631T-T27230 · Registry Services, LLC · primary · contention set 2026-59 XL2625T-T20823 · XYZ.COM LLC · primary · contention set 2026-59”ICANN
“LFGL2683T-T82030 · Link Freedom Group Ltd · primary NA2631T-T80151 · Registry Services, LLC · replacement string of .all · Deactivated”ICANN
- Band chosen: 30-49 (usable but limited). The string is a widely understood B2B software acronym with a large, recurring buyer group: consultancies and integrators that implement CRM platforms, agencies that sell sales-and-marketing tooling, and SaaS vendors with CRM product lines. That makes it a credible descriptive address for a service line or product microsite, which keeps it out of the 10-29 band: demand is not event-driven or a joke, and some smaller firms could plausibly run on it as a primary identity. It is not in the 50-69 band because, by analogy with other narrow software-category gTLDs (e.g. .software, .cloud, .sales-style strings), adoption in this segment tends to be defensive or secondary: the vendors who define the category brand on mainstream domains, so the TLD rarely becomes a primary identity for a serious project, and the aftermarket for a three-letter acronym tied to one software category is thin by analogy. Registration counts and pricing for those analogues are unknown here; the comparison is qualitative. On the record, two confirmed applications sit in one contention set, and one applicant also filed .leads naming .crm as its primary, which suggests that applicant sees the string inside a sales-tooling portfolio; this informs likelihood of a commercially motivated launch only, not the string's merit. Main market uncertainty: whether the CRM partner ecosystem (integrators and consultancies) treats .crm as a real public identity or only as redirect and campaign inventory, which would push the score toward the top or bottom of the band respectively.