.hvac
Is .hvac a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.hvac is not contested. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. It is XYZ.
A trade-vertical name some heating and cooling contractors may adopt, but most will stay on .com; expect low volume and little resale value.
small heating, ventilation and air-conditioning contractors and suppliers, mainly in North America, wanting a descriptive web address, plus a few industry directories and lead-generation sites
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 single skilled building-trade's own word, sold to thousands of small licensed local contractors who would put their primary business identity on it, and it only works if that fragmented trade re-registers off .com at scale.
The umbrella version of the identical bet — a trades-services category noun whose buyer is the same install-and-service contractor, differing only in breadth (all trades vs one), not in kind of word, kind of registrant, or what must be true to succeed.
Also a generic service-work category aimed at local service businesses rather than a brand or community, but it is a job description open to anyone rather than one defined licensed trade, so the identity pull on any single registrant is weaker and the pool less self-selecting.
What a .hvac domain is
.hvac 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 .hvac domain extension real yet?
.hvac 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 .hvac domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .hvac name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .hvac was .plumbing, delegated on 14 November 2013.
Is .hvac a real TLD?
Not yet. .hvac is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .hvac is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- XYZ · first recordedICANN
- Band chosen: 30-49, usable but limited. The string names a real, large, fragmented service trade whose businesses market heavily online, so a descriptive address has genuine end-use for a local contractor, a supplier or a lead-generation directory; that keeps it above the 10-29 vanity band, since a serious primary identity on .hvac is plausible for a trade business. It stays below the 50-69 band because, by analogy (flagged as analogy) with existing trade-vertical TLDs such as .plumbing, .contractors and .repair, adoption in this family has generally been modest, driven by registrar promotional pricing rather than sustained organic demand, with weak brand recognition among customers and a thin aftermarket; actual registration figures for those TLDs are unknown here and not asserted. The term 'hvac' is also largely a North American industry term, which narrows the geographic buyer pool relative to a generic word. On the record there is one confirmed standard application by XYZ.COM LLC (ICANN application ID XL2625T-T65446), which implies an open, generally available registry rather than a brand or community restriction; a related .source application by the same applicant that named .hvac as primary is listed as deactivated. Main market uncertainty: whether local HVAC contractors, who are the natural buyers and typically compete on geo-keyword .com sites and paid lead-gen listings, will treat a vertical TLD as a credible primary identity rather than a secondary or defensive registration.