.garage
Is .garage a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody has applied for .garage in its own right, as of 7 October 2026. XYZ named .garage as a backup string for its .hub application. ICANN deactivated it, because another applicant applied for the same string or named it as a backup. Endpoint Domains, Inc. named .garage as a backup string for its .central application. ICANN deactivated it, because another applicant applied for the same string or named it as a backup.
A clear, useful word for auto shops and maker projects, but most will still pick .com; expect modest demand and little resale value.
independent auto repair and tuning shops, parking and storage operators, and maker or startup projects trading on "built in a garage" imagery
No applications recorded for this TLD yet.
Named on the ICANN gTLD application list, 7 October 2026 as a replacement (backup) string of the applicant's .central application, shown as deactivated: another applicant applied for the same string or named it as a backup
Named on the ICANN gTLD application list, 7 October 2026 as a replacement (backup) string of the applicant's .hub application, shown as deactivated: another applicant applied for the same string or named it as a backup
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 single room-of-the-home noun sold on double duty — the trade businesses that work on that room plus enthusiasts who identify with it — with no community or company behind the word, so it has to earn registrations purely as a plain-language place label.
Same buyer and same economics as .garage's main commercial use — the independent fix-it/auto-service SMB putting its primary identity on a generic trade word — differing only in that it names the service rather than the premises.
Also a generic domestic-space noun whose success depends on a split audience of home-improvement suppliers and hobbyists adopting a category word as identity, the same unproven two-sided generic bet, though its buyers are retail/landscaping rather than mechanical trades.
What a .garage domain is
.garage is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under Commerce. Nobody has applied for .garage in its own right. It is named on ICANN’s list as part of an application for another string.
Is the .garage domain extension real yet?
.garage 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 .garage domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .garage name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .garage was .kitchen, delegated on 19 November 2013.
Is .garage a real TLD?
Not yet. .garage is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because ICANN’s list names .garage as part of an application for another string. Every entry on this page links to its source.
“EDI2665T-T86695 · Endpoint Domains, Inc. · replacement string of .central · Deactivated XL2625T-T57527 · XYZ.COM LLC · replacement string of .hub · Deactivated”ICANN
“EDI2665T-T28371 · Endpoint Domains, Inc. · primary”ICANN
“Each of these is a primary application. Plus additional applications to be revealed.”Endpoint Domains, Inc.
“The company says the applications are fully paid.”Domain Name Wire (Andrew Allemann)
- Band chosen: 30-49, usable but limited. The string is a plain, globally understood noun with two real meanings: the automotive service trade (repair shops, tuning, parking) and the startup/maker idiom of a project started in a garage. That gives genuine, if small, primary-identity use cases, which is why it sits above the 10-29 vanity band. It is not a 50-69 strong-niche TLD because, by analogy, descriptive trade-noun TLDs aimed at local small businesses (analogy: .repair, .parts, .plumbing, .autos) have seen registrations driven by price and defensive buying rather than sustained primary-identity adoption, and the higher-priced automotive strings (analogy: .auto, .car, .cars) have reached thin end-use despite the obvious category fit; local auto shops overwhelmingly keep .com or their national ccTLD, and the maker/startup meaning is a branding flourish rather than a namespace people search for. Aftermarket is likely to be shallow: a handful of generic words (parts, repair, classic, tuning) could trade, but by analogy with other single-trade TLDs most inventory would sit unregistered or at registry premium prices. Applicant facts are neutral: two standard applications are recorded on the ICANN list, both marked deactivated and both listed as replacement strings of other applications, which is consistent with a string that applicants treated as an alternative rather than a core bet; that informs adoption likelihood only, since delegation is assumed. Main market uncertainty: whether the automotive aftermarket trade, which is fragmented and mostly local, will treat a descriptive TLD as a credibility signal at all, or whether registrations stay in the price-driven, defensive pattern seen in comparable trade-noun strings.