.industry
Is .industry a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.industry is not contested. One applicant has said publicly that it applied to run it, and nobody else has, as of 15 August 2026. It is Link Freedom Group.
A plain business-word ending that suits industrial firms descriptively but adds little brand lift; most serious buyers will still prefer .com.
manufacturers, industrial suppliers, fabricators, and B2B trade or sector groups wanting a descriptive web identity, plus agencies naming sector microsites
In LFG's published list of 300+ strings submitted before the ICANN window closed on 2026-08-12. Their catalog tagline: “Where work gets done.”
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 lexeme, same bet: an abstract commercial-sector noun with no natural owner, sold open-registry as a generic corporate suffix that any company can bolt onto its name.
Also a maximally broad, ownerless commerce umbrella noun whose success depends on volume of generic small-business registrations rather than any defined community putting its primary identity there.
Another company-name-suffix abstraction from the same generic-corporate family, betting that firms will treat the TLD as a stylistic extension of their legal name instead of a category anyone identifies with.
What a .industry domain is
.industry is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under Commerce. One applicant has said publicly that it applied for .industry.
Is the .industry domain extension real yet?
.industry 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 .industry domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .industry name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .industry was .industries, delegated on .
Is .industry a real TLD?
Not yet. .industry is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because an applicant said publicly that it applied for .industry in the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round. Every claim on this page links to its source.
- Link Freedom Group · first recordedLink Freedom Group
“.industry · Infra · “Where work gets done.””Link Freedom Group
“LFG voluntarily published its full list of submissions ahead of ICANN’s official Reveal Day.”PR Newswire (Link Freedom Group)
“Top level domain registry Link Freedom Group (LFG) has disclosed more than 300 strings submitted as part of the ICANN new top level domain name program.”Domain Name Wire (Andrew Allemann)
- Band chosen: 30-49, usable but limited. The string is a common English noun with clear semantic reach across manufacturing, energy, logistics, and B2B services, so registrations at volume or on price are plausible over the next 5 years, and a descriptive pairing like acme.industry or texas.industry reads naturally. It does not reach the 50-69 strong-niche band because, by analogy with the earlier wave of generic business-descriptor gTLDs (.company, .business, .solutions, .services, and the near-identical plural .industries), such strings have tended to serve secondary, defensive, or budget registrations rather than genuine primary identities, and the aftermarket for them has generally been thin; that is an inference from analogy, since I have no verified figures here. It is above the 10-29 vanity band because the word is a serious, non-joke commercial descriptor with a real, if unglamorous, buyer base in the industrial economy, not event-driven or novelty demand. The near-duplicate plural string is itself a drag: buyers who want this concept may already be split across two spellings, diluting any category-standard claim (analogy-based inference). The verified facts say the applicant is Link Freedom Group, which filed more than 300 strings in the 2026 round and published its list ahead of Reveal Day, cataloging this string under Infra with the tagline 'Where work gets done.'; a large-portfolio applicant suggests broad-distribution economics rather than concentrated category-building marketing, which I weigh neutrally on adoption likelihood. Main market uncertainty: whether industrial and manufacturing SMBs, a segment that has historically skewed conservative in web identity choices (analogy from adjacent descriptor TLDs), will treat a descriptive TLD as credible for their primary web presence rather than as a redirect or campaign domain within the next 5 years.