.frankfurt
Is .frankfurt a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.frankfurt is not contested. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. It is Krischenowski GmbH.
A city name for Frankfurt businesses and locals; useful locally, but .de stays the default and resale value is thin.
local businesses, agencies, venues, clubs and civic projects in Frankfurt am Main that want an address signalling the city, plus a smaller layer of finance-sector and event brands tied to the city
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 major non-capital German city's own name run as a geo-namespace, sold to local businesses, residents and institutions who want a place-identity address, and it only works if the city's civic and commercial community adopts it as a second home address.
The same German-city geo bet, including the local-usage question of selling a place name to the people who live in it rather than to outsiders — and with the same reliance on municipal endorsement for legitimacy.
Identical shape of bet (German city name as an open geo-TLD for local identity), but the scale differs: a capital with global name recognition brings outside demand that a regional financial and trade-fair city must earn purely from local adoption.
What a .frankfurt domain is
.frankfurt is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under Places. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list.
Is the .frankfurt domain extension real yet?
.frankfurt 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 .frankfurt domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .frankfurt name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .frankfurt was .hamburg, delegated on 4 June 2014.
Is .frankfurt a real TLD?
Not yet. .frankfurt is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .frankfurt is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- Krischenowski GmbH · first recordedICANN
- Band chosen: 30-49, usable but limited. .frankfurt is a German city TLD in the same family as the existing German city strings (.berlin, .hamburg, .koeln) and other European city TLDs (.wien, .amsterdam, .london); by analogy, these have found genuine local use — restaurants, agencies, clubs, municipal campaigns — but the national ccTLD (.de) remains the unexplained default for serious German businesses, and city-TLD aftermarkets have been thin, with most value in a short list of generic keywords. Frankfurt is a smaller city than Berlin, so by analogy its ceiling is closer to the Hamburg/Cologne outcome than the Berlin one. It is not in the 50-69 band because adoption as a primary identity would still need explaining in Germany, where .de is dominant and the existing city TLDs have not become primary-identity defaults in their cities; it is not in the 10-29 band because city TLDs produce real, sustained, non-event-driven registrations from local businesses and some civic use, which is more than vanity demand. The record shows one confirmed application (Krischenowski GmbH, ICANN application ID KG2621T-T78385), with .bau recorded as a replacement string naming this application as primary; no contention is recorded, which is neutral-to-positive for a clean launch but does not change the market ceiling. Main market uncertainty: whether Frankfurt's municipal government, tourism body and finance/exhibition institutions adopt it visibly as a primary identity — civic anchor use is, by analogy with other city TLDs, the difference between a quiet local namespace and a recognised one; registration counts, prices and launch dates for any analog are unknown to this assessment and are not asserted.