.gis
Is .gis a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody has applied for .gis in its own right, as of 7 October 2026. Plan Bee named .gis as the replacement string of its .maker application.
A narrow professional label for mapping and geospatial work; memorable inside that field, rarely a serious primary address.
geospatial consultancies, mapping-software vendors, surveying firms, and public-sector geodata teams that want a short label signalling "geographic information systems" rather than a general web identity.
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 as .gis: a technical discipline's insider abbreviation standing in for the whole field, where registrants are the specialist vendors, consultancies and agency units who already use the shorthand daily, with no certifying body gating it and no recognition outside the trade.
Also bets that a specialist data-technology practice will put its primary identity on the name of the practice itself, drawing the same buyer shape of software vendors plus consultancies, though it is a plain readable noun with mainstream marketing pull rather than an opaque trade acronym.
Matches the acronym-for-an-industry-system shape, instantly meaningful inside one profession and ambiguous everywhere else, but its bet leans on a quasi-institutional infrastructure role within a single trade rather than an open field of practitioners and tool vendors adopting it freely.
What a .gis domain is
.gis is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under AI & tech. Nobody has applied for .gis in its own right. It is named on ICANN’s list as part of an application for another string.
Is the .gis domain extension real yet?
.gis 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 .gis domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .gis name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .gis was .comsec, delegated on 16 November 2015.
Is .gis a real TLD?
Not yet. .gis is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because ICANN’s list names .gis as part of an application for another string. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- Plan Bee · first recordedICANN
“WVL2684T-T36786 · Workbench Ventures LLC · replacement string of .maker”ICANN
- Band chosen: 10-29 (vanity/narrow). "GIS" is a well-understood acronym inside the geospatial profession, so the string has genuine meaning for one audience, and a sub-set of consultancies and data-platform projects could plausibly use a short name.gis address as a branded side identity. It is not in the 30-49 band because the field is a narrow professional vertical that already lives on established namespaces (.com, .org, national ccTLDs, and government second-level domains for public geodata), and nothing in the verified facts or in analogous professional-acronym and discipline TLDs suggests volume registrations at scale; by analogy, discipline-named TLDs from the earlier round (for example science- and engineering-themed strings) settled into modest, promotion-dependent registries rather than category standards, and .gis addresses a smaller field than those (inference from analogy). It is above the 1-9 band because a real, identifiable, global practitioner community exists and the string reads naturally as a label for that work, so some sustained demand is realistic over the next 5 years. The record shows one applicant, Workbench Ventures LLC, filed as a replacement string for a primary .maker application, with no contention and no category tag recorded; this tells me little about go-to-market intent, so adoption likelihood is judged on the string alone. Main market uncertainty: whether the geospatial profession, which is heavily organised around a few dominant software ecosystems and public agencies, adopts a dedicated namespace at all or keeps treating "GIS" as a page or sub-brand on existing domains; the acronym also collides with unrelated uses (insurance, services, personal initials), which dilutes the brand signal and caps aftermarket value.