.ishere
Is .ishere a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody has applied for .ishere in its own right, as of 7 October 2026. CREATEHER FEST named .ishere as the replacement string of its .her application.
A playful "name.ishere" announcement address: memorable for a moment, rarely a serious project's main web identity.
people, creators and small campaigns who want a one-line "X is here" announcement or landing page, plus community members of the applicant's events
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.
Identical bet: a deictic adverb with no category meaning of its own, sold on the premise that a brand or person will put its primary identity on a presence-announcement phrase that only resolves once the registrant supplies the subject to its left.
Same grammatical-glue bet as .ishere — a bare predicate fragment that is worthless standalone and only earns money if registrants treat the dot as a space and buy sentences rather than nouns.
Also an adverbial state-of-being tail whose buyer is a marketer wanting an expressive phrase (launch, availability, presence) rather than an industry label, so it lives or dies on the same willingness to read a domain as a sentence.
What a .ishere domain is
.ishere is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under Culture. Nobody has applied for .ishere in its own right. It is named on ICANN’s list as part of an application for another string.
Is the .ishere domain extension real yet?
.ishere 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 .ishere domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .ishere name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .ishere was .here, delegated on 29 August 2014.
Is .ishere a real TLD?
Not yet. .ishere is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because ICANN’s list names .ishere as part of an application for another string. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- CREATEHER FEST · first recordedICANN
“CF2559-T17061 · CREATEHER FEST · replacement string of .her”ICANN
- Band chosen: 10-29 (vanity/joke/narrow). The string reads as a sentence fragment, "[name] is here", which makes it a phrase-style TLD rather than a category or geography. By analogy (flagged as analogy), phrase and exclamation TLDs such as .wtf, .lol, .fail, .rip and .ninja drew an initial burst of novelty registrations and then settled into small, mostly redirect or side-project use; very few serious businesses or projects put their primary identity on them, and their aftermarkets stayed thin. .ishere fits that pattern: a strong one-off hook for a personal page, a launch teaser, an event or an announcement, with weak reuse once the joke lands. It is not in the 30-49 band because there is no evident category or price-driven volume engine — no industry, hobby or region naturally shortens to "ishere", so registrations would be driven by wordplay rather than need — and the brand signal to a stranger is playful, not credible. It is not in the 1-9 band because the phrase is instantly understood in English, produces genuinely memorable names (firstname.ishere, help.ishere), and could see some community uptake through the applicant's own events; that is a realistic, if shallow, market. The record shows this string as a replacement for a primary .her application under the Applicant Support Program, which suggests a community-oriented operator rather than a volume registrar play; that may help small, sustained adoption inside that community but does not by itself create broad demand. Main market uncertainty: whether phrase TLDs can hold any resale value at all five years out, or whether demand is purely event-driven and churns almost entirely at first renewal; the analogues point to the latter. Exact prices, registration counts and outcomes for the analogues are unknown to me under the rules here and are reasoned from analogy only.