.fact
Is .fact a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody has applied for .fact in its own right, as of 7 October 2026. Intercap named .fact as the replacement string of its .hello application.
A memorable word for fact-checkers and reference sites, but few projects would make .fact their main address.
fact-checking outlets, trivia and reference publishers, and data-driven brands that want a "verified" signal 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.
Same bet: a short abstract English noun that doubles as a verb, with no incumbent industry that owns it, sold on the hope that a credibility-and-information word can carry a primary identity rather than on demand from an existing trade.
The same wager that an abstract epistemic virtue word is brandable as an address — buyers would put their identity on it to signal credibility itself — though 'trust' has a real financial-services trade behind it where 'fact' has none.
Also a singular, verb-able noun for an act of evaluation whose buyers are outfits whose whole product is a judgment about something else, the nearest 2012 analogue to a fact-checking identity, but it arrives with an established review-site category attached.
What a .fact domain is
.fact 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 .fact in its own right. It is named on ICANN’s list as part of an application for another string.
Is the .fact domain extension real yet?
.fact 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 .fact domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .fact name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .fact was .report, delegated on 4 February 2014.
Is .fact a real TLD?
Not yet. .fact is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because ICANN’s list names .fact as part of an application for another string. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- Intercap · first recordedICANN
“IRI2679T-T88324 · Intercap Registry Inc. · replacement string of .hello”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 is a plain English noun that reads as a claim ("climate.fact", "check.fact"), which gives it a clear hook for fact-checking organisations, trivia and reference publishers, and statistics or data projects, but that hook is narrow and most such organisations already hold established identities on legacy namespaces. By analogy (flagged as analogy) to other descriptive-word generics such as .info, .wiki and .news, a word TLD rarely becomes a primary identity outside a few showcase sites unless a registry runs sustained outreach or low pricing drives volume; the verified-facts block records a single application from Intercap Registry Inc. with status "replacement" (replacement string of .hello) and no category tag, so there is nothing on the record indicating a volume or pricing strategy, and operator facts inform adoption likelihood only. It is not in the 30-49 band because there is no evident mechanism for registrations at volume and the word sits awkwardly as a suffix for ordinary businesses, leaving the aftermarket thin beyond a handful of one-word keywords. It is not in the 1-9 band because the verification and reference sector is real and publicly salient, and a few serious projects could plausibly adopt a .fact address as a deliberate brand statement within the next 5 years. Main market uncertainty: whether any recognised fact-checking or reference brand adopts .fact as its primary identity, which would mark the string as a sector hallmark rather than a novelty.