.elect
Is .elect a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody has applied for .elect in its own right, as of 7 October 2026. Intercap named .elect as the replacement string of its .donate application.
A narrow, election-flavoured word that campaigns and civic groups might use for a season, not a lasting primary address.
political campaigns, candidates-elect, election-tech and civic-engagement projects, plus a small set of brands wanting a "chosen/select" connotation
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 exactly: a short generic verb from the electoral process, whose primary identity buyers are candidates, campaigns, parties and election authorities, and which only works if a campaign-cycle audience will adopt a civic action word as its address.
The gerund form of the identical bet — a process-of-elections generic aimed at campaigns, ballot-measure advocates and election administrators, depending on the same assumption that civic-process language carries enough authority to host a primary identity.
The same electoral-process generic doing the same job for the same kind of buyer, but hedged into one language market, so the bet is identical in kind while narrower in reach.
What a .elect domain is
.elect is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under Culture. Nobody has applied for .elect in its own right. It is named on ICANN’s list as part of an application for another string.
Is the .elect domain extension real yet?
.elect 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 .elect domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .elect name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .elect was .vote, delegated on 2 March 2014.
Is .elect a real TLD?
Not yet. .elect is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because ICANN’s list names .elect as part of an application for another string. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- Intercap · first recordedICANN
“IRI2679T-T70845 · Intercap Registry Inc. · replacement string of .donate”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: 10-29 (vanity/narrow). The string reads two ways — the civic verb (elect, re-elect, president-elect) and a looser "chosen/select" connotation — and neither has a buyer group that would adopt it as a default primary identity. The closest analogies are the existing election-themed TLDs (.vote and .voting, and by analogy .democrat/.republican), which by analogy have remained small, campaign-season-driven namespaces rather than category standards; .elect would arrive as a second-order synonym competing with those strings and with .com/.org, which campaigns and civic organisations tend to prefer for trust and donor familiarity. Demand is inherently event-driven (election cycles), which is the defining trait of this band. It is not in the 30-49 band because there is no evident volume or price-driven registration channel on the record and the brand signal is weak outside politics; it is not in the 1-9 band because a real, if narrow, market exists (candidate and campaign sites, voter-information and election-technology projects, and a few domain-hack uses such as the "s.elect" pattern). On the record: a single application by Intercap Registry Inc., recorded as a replacement string for the applicant's primary .donate application, with a contention count of 0 — this suggests a single-operator path but says nothing about pricing or channel strategy, which are unknown. Main market uncertainty: whether any registry positioning (low wholesale pricing, registrar bundling, or a politics-focused go-to-market) could turn seasonal campaign demand into sustained registrations, or whether it behaves like the existing election-themed TLDs as a low-volume curiosity.