.industry
Is .industry a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody has applied for .industry in its own right, as of 7 October 2026. Link Freedom Group named .industry as the backup string of its .brand application.
Nobody has applied for .industry in its own right.
Will names sell?
A plain business-word ending that suits industrial firms descriptively but adds little brand lift; most serious buyers will still prefer .com.
Last round the AI scored the 2012 strings blind to their fate. Strings it scored 60 or more hold a median 27,168 names today; those under 30, a median of 30. .industry’s closest 2012 strings hold .industries 8K, .business 38K and .enterprises 10K.
The nearest 2012 strings, and how many names each holds today
The closest 2012 string, .industries, held 7,519 names, June 2026. .business held 37,863; .enterprises held 9,644. Chosen by AI from every string in the 2012 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.
manufacturers, industrial suppliers, fabricators, and B2B trade or sector groups wanting a descriptive web identity, plus agencies naming sector microsites
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, in our Commerce category. Nobody has applied for .industry in its own right. It is named on ICANN’s list as part of an application for another string.
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. Nobody has applied for it on the public record; the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round is the process that would decide whether it becomes one.
When can you buy a .industry domain?
You can’t yet. A .industry name can only be registered once the string is delegated (added to the DNS root) and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .industry was .industries, delegated on 21 February 2014.
Is .industry a real TLD?
Not yet. .industry is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because ICANN’s list names .industry as part of an application for another string. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- Link Freedom Group · now replacementICANN
- Link Freedom Group · first recordedLink Freedom Group
“LFGL2683T-T94977 · Link Freedom Group Ltd · replacement string of .brand”ICANN
“.industry · Infra · “Where work gets done.””Link Freedom Group
- 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.