.english
Is .english a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody has applied for .english in its own right, as of 7 October 2026. Intercap named .english as the replacement string of its .globe application.
A clear niche for English-teaching businesses, but most will keep their .com or local address; thin resale value.
English-language schools, tutors, test-prep and ESL publishers, plus learning apps that want the subject in the 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.
The same bet that a language's own name is the natural organizing label for everything written and taught in it, with the speaker population rather than any single institution as the implied owner.
Identical word-shape — a bare demonym adjective that doubles as a language name, owned by nobody and claimable by anyone who identifies with the culture — differing only in that its speaker base is one nation rather than a global lingua franca.
Also a people-and-language adjective applied for as a broad cultural-identity namespace, where the hard question is the same: who has standing to run a label an entire diaspora already uses for itself.
What a .english domain is
.english 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 .english in its own right. It is named on ICANN’s list as part of an application for another string.
Is the .english domain extension real yet?
.english 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 .english domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .english name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .english was .xn--fiq228c5hs, delegated on 3 January 2014.
Is .english a real TLD?
Not yet. .english is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because ICANN’s list names .english as part of an application for another string. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- Intercap · first recordedICANN
“IRI2679T-T88332 · Intercap Registry Inc. · replacement string of .globe”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 names a subject with a large, global industry behind it (English teaching, testing, publishing, tutoring), and phrases like learn.english or business.english read naturally, so a serious project could plausibly use it as a primary identity. It is not in the 50-69 band because that demand is unproven and the buyers are mostly in non-English-speaking markets where the local ccTLD and .com are entrenched defaults; adoption would need explaining and the aftermarket is likely thin, with value concentrated in a handful of dictionary-word labels. By analogy (flagged as analogy), subject- and education-themed new gTLDs such as .academy, .education and .school have found steady but modest registration bases and little resale market, and a single-language string is narrower still. It is not in the 10-29 band because the use case is coherent, commercial and durable rather than a joke or event-driven string. Applicant facts on the record: one application by Intercap Registry Inc., recorded as a replacement string for a primary application for .globe; contention count on the record is 0. Main market uncertainty: whether ESL operators, who are mostly outside English-speaking countries, will choose a thematic gTLD over their ccTLD, and whether the registry prices it as a volume string or a premium one.