.fundraise
Is .fundraise a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody has applied for .fundraise in its own right, as of 7 October 2026. Public Interest Registry named .fundraise as the replacement string of its .organization application.
A narrow charity-campaign string: memorable for appeals and drives, but few organisations would make it their main web address.
nonprofit fundraising campaigns, peer-to-peer appeals and crowdfunding drives wanting a campaign-specific address; secondarily fundraising consultants and event organisers
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 almost exactly: an open generic verb for the act of soliciting/receiving donations, sold to causes, campaigns and donation platforms, and it only works if that sector moves its primary identity off .org onto an activity word.
The other half of the same transaction rendered as the same kind of open philanthropy-activity word for the same nonprofit/campaign-page buyer, with the same dependency on donation URLs being treated as a brandable address rather than a path on an existing site.
Same sector and the same open-registry bet, but it is the category noun for what the organization IS rather than the word for the money-raising act, so the identity it carries is institutional (a registered charity) rather than campaign- or appeal-shaped.
What a .fundraise domain is
.fundraise is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under Other. Nobody has applied for .fundraise in its own right. It is named on ICANN’s list as part of an application for another string.
Is the .fundraise domain extension real yet?
.fundraise 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 .fundraise domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .fundraise name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .fundraise was .gives, delegated on 4 June 2014.
Is .fundraise a real TLD?
Not yet. .fundraise is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because ICANN’s list names .fundraise as part of an application for another string. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- Public Interest Registry · first recordedICANN
“PIR2624T-T39548 · Public Interest Registry · replacement string of .organization”ICANN
- Band chosen: 10-29 (vanity/narrow). The string is a verb describing an activity, not an identity, and the people doing that activity (charities, schools, individuals running appeals) already live on .org or on hosted crowdfunding platforms whose campaign pages are the de facto address; a dedicated domain per campaign is rare and short-lived, so demand is event-driven and shallow. It is not in the 30-49 band because there is no evidence of volume or price-driven registration dynamics for the giving-sector strings it resembles: by analogy (flagged), .charity, .gives, .giving and .ngo have remained small namespaces with little aftermarket despite clear semantics, and .fundraise is narrower and more awkward to read as a suffix than any of them. It is not in the 1-9 band because the word is widely understood, campaign-style use (a named drive or gala with its own address) is plausible, and the applicant on the record is an established nonprofit-sector registry operator, which by analogy to its existing portfolio suggests channel reach into that sector. Applicant facts on the record: Public Interest Registry has filed it as a replacement string for a primary .organization application; contention count 0. Main market uncertainty: whether any crowdfunding or nonprofit campaign platform adopts the string for campaign vanity addresses, which is the only path that would create registration volume rather than scattered one-off use; absent that, usage stays occasional and resale value stays near registration cost.