.csc
Is .csc a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.csc is not contested. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. It is CSC.
A single-company brand namespace: useful only to its owner, with no public registrations and no resale market.
the applicant company itself, for branded corporate, product and customer-portal addresses; not a public namespace anyone else can buy into
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 shape as .csc: a B2B professional-services firm whose public identity is a meaningless-to-outsiders initialism, betting that a closed brand TLD is worth owning for client-facing and internal properties rather than for registrations.
Also a three-letter acronym for a corporate-information/services provider selling to company legal and compliance buyers, so the TLD has to earn its keep purely as a credential on client portals, not as a word anyone searches for.
What a .csc domain is
.csc 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 .csc domain extension real yet?
.csc 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 .csc domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .csc name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .csc was .bcg, delegated on 9 March 2016.
Is .csc a real TLD?
Not yet. .csc is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .csc is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- CSC · first recordedICANN
“CSC2689T-T73615 · Corporation Service Company · primary”ICANN
- Band chosen: 10-29 (vanity/narrow). The verified block shows a single confirmed applicant, Corporation Service Company, under its own corporate name, which reads as a dot-brand: a closed namespace where the registry is also the sole registrant. Value on this rubric therefore collapses to end-use utility for one buyer; there is no open registration demand, no third-party primary-identity use, and no aftermarket, which rules out the 30-49 band (that band assumes registrations happening at volume or on price). It is above the 1-9 band because a brand with domain-services and corporate-compliance offerings has a plausible reason to run its own namespace as a working identity for client portals, documentation and internal services, so the TLD can carry real utility to its single best-fit buyer. By analogy (flagged as analogy), earlier-round dot-brands have split between active deployments used for product and content addresses and largely dormant defensive holdings; the active cases demonstrate that a brand TLD can serve as a genuine primary identity, while the dormant cases show the downside is near zero market value. Main market uncertainty: whether the owner actually migrates customer-facing services onto .csc addresses or keeps it as a defensive, lightly used asset. Specific registration counts, launch timing and pricing for this string are unknown.