.industrial
Is .industrial a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.industrial is not contested. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. It is XYZ.
A descriptive adjective ending for industrial firms and design studios; memorable in a niche, rarely a serious primary web identity.
industrial equipment makers, B2B manufacturers, industrial-design studios and industrial-music acts wanting a descriptive secondary or campaign address
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 in noun form: an open generic word for the manufacturing/B2B sector with no single natural owner, sold to firms that want a sector-defining address rather than a brand one.
Also a broad B2B trade-goods generic whose registrants are manufacturers, distributors and dealers putting a category label beside their own brand, so it depends on commercial buyers paying for descriptor space.
A heavy-industry sector generic with the same structure of demand — contractors and suppliers across one vertical — but it names a trade people self-identify with, which an adjective like the target does less well.
What a .industrial domain is
.industrial 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 .industrial domain extension real yet?
.industrial 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 .industrial domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .industrial name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .industrial was .industries, delegated on 21 February 2014.
Is .industrial a real TLD?
Not yet. .industrial is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .industrial 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: 10-29 (vanity/narrow). The string is a plain English adjective tied to a large, real sector (manufacturing, heavy equipment, industrial design, industrial music), so there is a genuine naming use and some intrinsic memorability — which keeps it above the 1-9 band. By analogy (flagged as analogy), the existing 2012-round sibling .industries saw modest uptake and little visible primary-identity use, and sector-adjacent strings such as .engineering and .construction did not become category defaults; industrial B2B buyers are conservative and strongly .com-anchored, and an adjective ending reads awkwardly as a complete identity ("acme.industrial"), which is why it does not reach the 30-49 band of volume-or-price registrations. On the record, one applicant (XYZ.COM LLC, standard application, uncontested at one application) and a related .pit application marked as a replacement; applicant facts inform adoption likelihood only — a portfolio operator may distribute the string widely across registrar channels, which would support volume. Main market uncertainty: whether low-price, bundled retail distribution produces sustained registrations beyond promotional spikes, or whether demand stays shallow and defensive as the .industries analogy suggests.