.develop
Is .develop a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody has applied for .develop in its own right, as of 7 October 2026. Intercap named .develop as the replacement string of its .create application.
A broad English verb that sounds useful but sits in the shadow of .dev; expect price-driven registrations, not a real brand signal.
software developers, real-estate and property developers, and personal-growth or training brands wanting a verb-style call-to-action address
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 word, same bet: an activity verb claimed as the working identity of software builders and their tooling/environments, where value depends on engineers putting project and internal-service names on it rather than on any consumer category demand.
The other half of the same wager - a software lifecycle-stage word whose buyers are engineering organisations naming environments and endpoints, so it lives or dies on the same assumption that technical teams will host identity on a stage-of-work label.
A bare verb of making that has to win the same way - a broad action word hoping both software and construction audiences read themselves into it - which gives it the same ambiguity risk .develop carries between developers and property developers.
What a .develop domain is
.develop is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under AI & tech. Nobody has applied for .develop in its own right. It is named on ICANN’s list as part of an application for another string.
Is the .develop domain extension real yet?
.develop 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 .develop domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .develop name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .develop was .dev, delegated on 18 December 2014.
Is .develop a real TLD?
Not yet. .develop is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because ICANN’s list names .develop as part of an application for another string. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- Intercap · first recordedICANN
“IRI2679T-T47088 · Intercap Registry Inc. · replacement string of .create”ICANN
“EDI2665T-T28371 · Endpoint Domains, Inc. · primary IRI2679T-T96997 · Intercap Registry Inc. · replacement string of .wiz · Deactivated NA2626T-T63059 · ShortDot (Ireland) Limited · replacement string of .ask · Deactivated XL2625T-T48604 · XYZ.COM LLC · replacement string of .con · Deactivated”ICANN
- Band chosen: 30-49, usable but limited. The string is a common English verb with three plausible meanings (software development, property development, personal/professional development), which spreads rather than concentrates demand. By analogy (flagged as analogy), verb and action-word TLDs such as .build, .review and .works have found real but modest, largely price-driven registration bases with thin aftermarkets, and the developer-identity niche the string most naturally evokes is already served by the shorter .dev, which by analogy functions much closer to a category default for that audience. It is not in the 50-69 band because there is no category where a serious project would pick .develop over .dev, .com or a vertical alternative without explaining the choice, and no sustained aftermarket demand is evident. It is not in the 10-29 band because the word is a genuine, non-joke commercial term with multiple industries (software, real estate, coaching) that could use it as a readable call-to-action address, so registrations at volume on promotional pricing are realistic. The verified record shows a single application by Intercap Registry Inc. filed as a replacement string for .create, with no contention recorded and no category tag; this informs adoption likelihood only neutrally. Main market uncertainty over the next 5 years: whether any one vertical (most plausibly property development or coaching, since software is captured by .dev) adopts .develop as a recognizable identity, versus the string remaining a scattered, discount-driven namespace.