.hall
Is .hall a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.hall is not contested. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. It is Momentous.
A plain English word for venues and gathering places; real but narrow use, most buyers will need a reason to pick it over the usual endings.
event venues, concert and banquet halls, halls of fame, student residences and civic halls that want a short descriptive address; a trickle of people with the surname Hall
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 short generic English noun naming a physical assembly venue, sold to the operators of those venues plus the event/ticketing businesses around them, and it only works if venue operators see a single-word building type as better identity than their own brand.
Also a generic venue-type noun that doubles as a figurative label (an online gallery, a hall of fame), so it plays the same two-audience game of real-world space operators plus metaphorical users, though its buyer pool is narrower and more art-specific than a hall's civic/music/dining span.
The nearest parallel for the suffix half of the bet — organizations and venues that already brand themselves "Something House" the way others brand "Something Hall" — a plain building noun whose value is as a construction ending rather than a category anyone searches for.
What a .hall domain is
.hall is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under Commerce. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list.
Is the .hall domain extension real yet?
.hall 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 .hall domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .hall name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .hall was .theater, delegated on 6 May 2015.
Is .hall a real TLD?
Not yet. .hall is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .hall is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- Momentous · first recordedICANN
“MC2626T-T87191 · Momentous Corporation · replacement string of .hall · Deactivated SRL2616T-T70720 · Squarespace Registry LLC · primary”ICANN
- Band chosen: usable but limited (30-49), at its low end. The string is a common English word with several live meanings (a venue or performance space, a civic building such as a town or city hall, a hall of fame, a residence hall, a surname), which gives it genuine descriptive end-use in the events and venues vertical and in culture and civic contexts. It is not in the band above (strong niche) because the natural buyers, venues and institutions, are an established sector that already holds .com, .org and country-code addresses as their primary identity, and nothing about .hall is a default inside that sector; adoption needs explaining and the secondary market would be thin. It is not in the band below (vanity/narrow) because the word maps to real businesses and institutions that would plausibly use a short .hall address as a primary site or campaign address, so demand is not purely event-driven or joke-driven. By analogy (flagged as analogy), word TLDs aimed at the events and hospitality vertical such as .events, .theater, .bar and .pub have tended to see modest registration and little aftermarket, while broader lifestyle words like .club or .space reached volume mainly on price promotions; .hall sits closer to the former group because its meaning is narrower and split across senses. On the record, the single confirmed application is a standard (non-brand, non-community) application by Momentous Corporation, and a companion .venue application from the same applicant, now deactivated, named .hall as its primary; read neutrally, that suggests the string is being positioned toward the venue and events space rather than as a surname or civic namespace, which is the use with the most commercial demand. Main market uncertainty: whether venue operators and event-booking intermediaries actually move primary identity to a descriptive TLD at all, versus using it for redirects and campaigns, and how much the split meanings (surname, architecture, civic) dilute the venue positioning.