.ipr
Is .ipr a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody has applied for .ipr in its own right, as of 7 October 2026. KNET Co., Ltd. named .ipr as the replacement string of its .品牌 application.
A niche label for intellectual-property services; clear to lawyers and policy people, opaque to most buyers, so demand stays small.
intellectual-property law firms, patent and trademark agents, IP service platforms and rights-protection units, most plausibly in the operator's home market where "IPR" is everyday policy vocabulary
No applications recorded for this TLD yet.
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: a short insider acronym for a regulated professional practice area, wagering that a closed guild of credentialed firms will put their primary identity on a string the general public cannot decode.
Same bet: an industry-jargon abbreviation for a legal/financial rights structure rather than a plain category noun, so adoption hinges entirely on specialists recognising their own shorthand.
Same bet in the legal-services vertical - a terse abbreviation working as a professional badge for lawyers and firms - but it marks the practitioner's standing rather than the body of rights practised, so the buyer overlaps while the word's job is narrower.
What a .ipr domain is
.ipr is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under Commerce. Nobody has applied for .ipr in its own right. It is named on ICANN’s list as part of an application for another string.
Is the .ipr domain extension real yet?
.ipr 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 .ipr domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .ipr name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .ipr was .cpa, delegated on 20 September 2019.
Is .ipr a real TLD?
Not yet. .ipr is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because ICANN’s list names .ipr as part of an application for another string. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- KNET Co., Ltd. · first recordedICANN
“KCL2693T-T31879 · KNET Co., Ltd. · replacement string of .xn--jvr800e”ICANN
“IDOL2621T-T20061 · Internet DotTrademark Organisation Limited · primary · contention set 2026-31 IRI2679T-T15412 · Intercap Registry Inc. · primary · contention set 2026-31 KCL2693T-T23960 · KNET Co., Ltd. · replacement string of .xn--kbt444f · Deactivated LFGL2683T-T94977 · Link Freedom Group Ltd · primary · contention set 2026-31 MEL2626T-T48733 · M&A Entity LLC · primary · contention set 2026-31 NA2631T-T69341 · Registry Services, LLC · primary · contention set 2026-31 RTIS2674T-T83546 · Radix Technologies Inc SEZC · primary · contention set 2026-31 SRL2616T-T86558 · Squarespace Registry LLC · primary · contention set 2026-31 VTL2632T-T88824 · Velvet Taupe, LLC · primary · contention set 2026-31 XCI2688T-T81155 · XServer Cloud Incorporated · primary · contention set 2026-31 XI2694T-T28363 · XRegistry Incorporated · replacement string of .follow · Deactivated XL2625T-T31633 · XYZ.COM LLC · primary · contention set 2026-31”ICANN
- Band chosen: 10-29 (vanity/narrow). The string is an acronym for intellectual property rights, which is recognized inside legal, trademark and policy circles and in English-language Chinese government and trade usage, but is not a word most buyers read on sight; a serious firm choosing it as primary identity would be a deliberate, explained choice. The record shows a single standard application by KNET Co., Ltd., filed as a replacement string for an IDN primary application (品牌, a Chinese-language 'brand' string), with no contention; that history suggests the applicant's interest sits in brand and IP services, which informs where adoption effort would likely be directed, but says nothing about demand itself. By analogy (flagged as analogy), existing profession-scoped legal strings such as .law, .legal, .attorney and .lawyer have found genuine but modest uptake and thin aftermarkets, and those are plain words rather than acronyms; an acronym-scoped professional string would plausibly do worse than them on recognition. Not in the 30-49 band because there is no credible path to volume or price-driven registrations: the buyer set is a small professional segment that already defaults to .com, .cn or national legal strings, and the string carries little brand signal outside that segment, so a thin aftermarket is the likely ceiling. Not in the 1-9 band because a real, identifiable buyer group exists (IP law firms, patent and trademark agents, IP service marketplaces, rights-protection departments in large companies), and IP services are a sizable and growing professional category in the operator's home market, so sustained low-volume registrations and some defensive and professional use are realistic over 5 years. Main market uncertainty: whether IP service firms in the home market treat .ipr as a credibility marker worth adopting as a primary identity, or merely as a defensive add-on, which would determine whether it lands near the top of this band or stays close to the floor.