.form
Is .form a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.form is contested: 3 applications for it are on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. They are XServer, Identity Digital and GoDaddy Registry. Starlight (Namecheap) named .form as a backup string for three of its applications: .matrix, .forge and .craft. ICANN deactivated those backups, because another applicant applied for the same string or named it as a backup. Emotiva named .form as a backup string for its .therapy application. ICANN deactivated it, because another applicant applied for the same string or named it as a backup. Link Freedom Group named .form as a backup string for its .bad application. ICANN deactivated it, because another applicant applied for the same string or named it as a backup.
Who is applying, and what they run today
Two of the three already run TLDs, 22.02M names between them. One runs one of .form's closest 2012 strings: Identity Digital .contact. XServer runs none.
Will names sell?
A dictionary-word ending that suits form-builder tools and word-play names like plat.form, but few companies would make it their main address.
Last round the AI scored the 2012 strings blind to their fate. Strings it scored 60 or more hold a median 27,168 names today; those under 30, a median of 30. .form’s closest 2012 strings hold .docs 3, .page 41K and .contact 12K.
The nearest 2012 strings, and how many names each holds today
The closest 2012 string, .docs, held 3 names, June 2026. .page held 40,684; .contact held 12,039. Chosen by AI from every string in the 2012 round, without being told what happened to any of them.
Same bet: an unglamorous generic noun naming a ubiquitous workplace document artifact, pitched at the SaaS tools that create and host that artifact plus companies wanting a functional utility name, not at an industry or community.
Same bet class of a generic noun for a thing you build and publish on the web, where the buyer is a builder or hosting product wanting every customer's published object to live under the string, though it carries far broader web volume than a form does.
Same bet on a mundane functional web-surface noun sold to lead-capture and CRM-style tools plus corporate utility use, but it leans more toward an address or channel than a created artifact.
Where they meet elsewhere
Identity Digital and Link Freedom Group face each other in 68 contests this round, .form included.
- Identity Digital × Link Freedom Group
- Identity Digital × GoDaddy Registry
- Link Freedom Group × GoDaddy Registry
- Identity Digital × XServer
- Identity Digital × Starlight (Namecheap)
form and survey SaaS builders, design studios, and startups hunting domain hacks on words ending in -form (platform, transform, perform, inform)
What a .form domain is
.form is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, in our AI & tech category. 3 applications for it are on ICANN’s Reveal Day list.
Is the .form domain extension real yet?
.form is not yet a domain extension you can register: nothing resolves under it, and no registrar sells names in it. It is a string applicants have put forward in the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, the process that decides whether it becomes one.
When can you buy a .form domain?
You can’t yet. A .form name can only be registered once the string is delegated (added to the DNS root) and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .form was .docs, delegated on 18 December 2014.
Is .form a real TLD?
Not yet. .form is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .form is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
“NA2631T-T90582 · Registry Services, LLC · primary · contention set 2026-89 VSL2633T-T61422 · Vinyl Strings, LLC · primary · contention set 2026-89 XI2694T-T68587 · XRegistry Incorporated · primary · contention set 2026-89”ICANN
The source’s 8 linesHide the lines
BEI2691T-T99138 · Bellatrix Exploration, Inc. · replacement string of .craft · Deactivated DEI2680T-T53761 · Deneb Exploration, Inc. · replacement string of .forge · Deactivated EL2578-T58918 · Emotiva Ltd · replacement string of .therapy · Deactivated LFGL2683T-T31625 · Link Freedom Group Ltd · replacement string of .bad · Deactivated MEI2662T-T81792 · Miaplacidus Exploration, Inc. · replacement string of .matrix · Deactivated NA2631T-T90582 · Registry Services, LLC · primary · contention set 2026-89 VSL2633T-T61422 · Vinyl Strings, LLC · primary · contention set 2026-89 XI2694T-T68587 · XRegistry Incorporated · primary · contention set 2026-89
“.form · AI & Tech · “Form meets function.””Link Freedom Group
- Band chosen: usable but limited (30-49). The string is a common English noun with two real hooks: a semantic fit for the forms/survey software category, and an unusually rich domain-hack surface, since many English words end in -form (plat.form, trans.form, per.form, in.form), which by analogy to hack-driven TLD demand should generate steady low-volume creative registrations. It is not in the strong-niche band above because there is no identifiable community or category where a .form address would be the expected primary identity over the next 5 years: the forms-software category is small and its incumbents brand elsewhere, so adoption would need explaining every time; by analogy, single-product-category generic TLDs have tended to see price-driven volume rather than credibility-driven demand. It is not in the vanity band below because the word is broadly meaningful, spells cleanly, and the hack inventory gives it more than event-driven appeal, with a plausible thin aftermarket for the handful of premium hack strings. The applicant's catalog places it in AI & Tech, which is a positioning fact, not evidence of demand; the AI tie-in for this string is weak on its face. Main market uncertainty: whether the domain-hack channel converts into paid, renewing registrations at any scale, or whether hacks remain a redirect-and-lapse novelty, which would push the string toward the bottom of this band.