.indeed
Is .indeed a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.indeed is not contested. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. It is Indeed, Inc..
A closed brand space for Indeed's own sites; handy for the company at most, with no open registrations and no resale market.
the applicant brand itself, for its own product, regional and campaign addresses; not open to third-party registrants
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: a job-marketplace operator putting its corporate identity on a TLD whose string is an ordinary English verb, so the registry has to make a dictionary word read as one company's brand.
A two-sided employment marketplace claiming a common English noun as its own dot-brand, carrying the same burden of owning a word the public already has a non-commercial meaning for.
Same buyer and sector — a jobs-marketplace company taking a TLD for a career-identity property — but the string is a coined/archaic construction rather than a live everyday word, so it starts with no generic meaning to overcome.
What a .indeed domain is
.indeed is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under Brand. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list.
Is the .indeed domain extension real yet?
.indeed 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 .indeed domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .indeed name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .indeed was .seek, delegated on 11 August 2015.
Is .indeed a real TLD?
Not yet. .indeed is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .indeed is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- Indeed, Inc. · first recordedICANN
- Band chosen: 10-29 (vanity/narrow). The verified-facts block records a single confirmed application from Indeed, Inc. with ICANN application type 'brand', so the string is best read as a closed dot-brand: the only realistic buyer is the applicant, and the value question is end-use utility for that one company rather than a market. Reasoning from analogy (flagged as such): earlier-round dot-brands run by large consumer internet companies have mostly been used sparingly, for a handful of product or campaign hosts, with primary identity staying on the legacy .com; a minority of brand registries were later retired rather than built out. Indeed is a widely recognised employment-marketplace name, so if the company chose to move core properties (job search, employer tools, regional sites) onto the dot-brand the utility would be genuine and the name would carry its own trust signal, which is why the string sits at the top of this band rather than lower. It is not in the 30-49 band because that band presumes registrations at volume and at least a thin aftermarket, and a closed brand namespace has neither by design: no third party can buy an address and nothing resells. It is not in the 1-9 band because a well-known operator has a plausible, if narrow, primary-identity use case for its own addresses. Main market uncertainty: whether the operator actually migrates meaningful traffic and identity to the dot-brand or treats it as defensive, held in reserve while the .com remains the public face; the facts block gives no indication either way.