.csr
Is .csr a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody has applied for .csr in its own right, as of 7 October 2026. Public Interest Registry named .csr as the replacement string of its .mission application.
A niche label for corporate social-responsibility microsites; memorable for a report page, rarely a company's main address.
corporate sustainability and social-responsibility teams wanting a short address for their CSR report or impact microsite, plus agencies and nonprofits in the responsible-business space
No applications recorded for this TLD yet.
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 that a three-letter insider abbreviation for a business discipline becomes the primary identity of that discipline's practitioners and advisory firms, meaningless to anyone outside the field, though the accounting abbreviation has a licensed registrant class and a professional body behind it where a corporate-function abbreviation has neither.
Also an abbreviation naming a field of socially-motivated work rather than a product or company, sold to the institutions of that field on the premise that a steward's eligibility screen makes the suffix itself a credibility claim; the difference is that its buyer is the mission organisation itself, not a for-profit's responsibility programme.
Shares the job of letting an organisation put a values claim in its own address, with the same requirement that the namespace stay credible enough not to read as greenwash, but it is a plain-language category word aimed at any green business rather than one profession's internal shorthand.
What a .csr domain is
.csr is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under Commerce. Nobody has applied for .csr in its own right. It is named on ICANN’s list as part of an application for another string.
Is the .csr domain extension real yet?
.csr is not yet a domain extension you can register: nothing resolves under it, and no registrar sells names in it. Nobody has applied for it on the public record; the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round is the process that would decide whether it becomes one.
When can you buy a .csr domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .csr name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .csr was .cpa, delegated on 20 September 2019.
Is .csr a real TLD?
Not yet. .csr is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because ICANN’s list names .csr as part of an application for another string. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- Public Interest Registry · first recordedICANN
“PIR2624T-T23710 · Public Interest Registry · replacement string of .mission”ICANN
- Band chosen: 10-29 (vanity/narrow). The string reads as an abbreviation with two competing meanings: corporate social responsibility in business circles and certificate signing request in IT, which blurs the brand signal for both. The plausible use is a company pointing brand.csr at its annual impact report or sustainability microsite; that is secondary-identity use, so serious projects would rarely adopt it as their primary address, which keeps it out of the 30-49 band where registrations at least occur at volume or on price. It sits above the 1-9 band because a real, identifiable buyer group exists (corporate sustainability teams, CSR consultancies) and the three-letter string is easy to remember. By analogy (flagged as analogy), cause- and purpose-oriented TLDs aimed at the responsible-business and nonprofit space have tended to see modest, sustained but shallow uptake rather than category-standard status, and the corporate vocabulary itself has been shifting toward ESG, sustainability and impact framing, which erodes the string's long-term fit. On the record, the only application is from Public Interest Registry as a replacement string for .mission, with no contention recorded; the operator's stated purpose for the string is unknown from the facts block. Main market uncertainty: whether large companies would treat a CSR-specific address as a credible home for reporting, or keep such content under their main brand domain as they generally do today, which would leave aftermarket demand near zero.