.forms
Is .forms a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.forms is not contested. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. It is Intercap.
A clear product word with real but narrow use for form and survey tools; a handy utility address, not a brand-building one.
form-builder and survey SaaS products, document and e-government form portals, and businesses wanting a short hosted address for their intake or sign-up forms
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 plain plural noun for a mundane business document artifact, where the value depends on organizations and document-tooling vendors agreeing to hang a utility surface off it rather than on anyone putting their primary brand identity there.
Same bet in function rather than artifact — a generic noun naming the act of collecting input from people, whose natural buyer is the survey/intake software category that also wants .forms, though it reads as a single destination word rather than a container of many documents.
Same shape of bet: a plural generic noun for a paperwork-driven workflow step that enterprises would use as an operational subdomain for customers to file something, with no community or profession claiming the word as its own name.
What a .forms domain is
.forms is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under AI & tech. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list.
Is the .forms domain extension real yet?
.forms 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 .forms domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .forms name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .forms was .docs, delegated on 18 December 2014.
Is .forms a real TLD?
Not yet. .forms is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .forms is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- Intercap · first recordedICANN
“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). .forms is a plain functional noun that maps to a real software category (form builders, surveys, document and government forms), so it has genuine utility use: a company could point brand.forms at its hosted intake forms, and a form-building product could use it as a product URL. It is not in the 50-69 band because the category is narrow, the obvious buyers are a small set of SaaS vendors who in my judgment are likely to keep their established primary identities and treat a .forms name as a redirect or vanity shortcut rather than a primary address, and aftermarket demand for such names would be thin. It is not in the 10-29 band because the string carries unambiguous meaning and a practical, non-joke purpose that supports sustained low-volume registrations rather than only event-driven demand. By analogy (flagged as analogy), other functional-noun TLDs such as .tools, .email, .page and .cloud found some real use but mostly as secondary or promotional addresses rather than category standards; I expect .forms to track that pattern at smaller scale. Verified facts: one application is on the record from Intercap Registry Inc. (status confirmed), with .survey recorded as the same applicant's replacement string, which signals the applicant's interest sits in the data-collection category and suggests a coherent positioning; no registration, pricing, or demand figures are in the verified facts, so volume is unknown. Main market uncertainty: whether a major form or survey platform adopts .forms as the default hosted address for its customers' forms, which would turn it into a platform-anchored namespace and justify a score in the 50s rather than the 30s.