.ivf
Is .ivf a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody has applied for .ivf in its own right, as of 7 October 2026. Radix named .ivf as the replacement string of its .therapy application.
A clear, globally understood medical acronym with real but narrow buyers (fertility clinics); modest volume, thin resale.
fertility clinics, IVF networks and reproductive-health information sites that want a self-describing address (city.ivf, clinicname.ivf), plus a smaller set of patient-community and donor-bank projects
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: one high-ticket elective treatment program sold to a patient in an acute decision window, where the registrants are the specialist facilities that do only that thing and the string is also the patient's search term.
Same shape of bet - a procedure-category string that the practitioners of that procedure put their primary identity on - but it covers an entire profession rather than one narrow treatment, so the registrant pool and the meaning are far broader than a single-procedure acronym.
Also a clipped insider name for one specific clinical treatment that a small set of single-service clinics would brand themselves with, though it rides an everyday recurring service rather than a capital-intensive once-in-a-lifetime purchase.
What a .ivf domain is
.ivf 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 .ivf in its own right. It is named on ICANN’s list as part of an application for another string.
Is the .ivf domain extension real yet?
.ivf 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 .ivf domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .ivf name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .ivf was .rehab, delegated on 4 June 2014.
Is .ivf a real TLD?
Not yet. .ivf is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because ICANN’s list names .ivf as part of an application for another string. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- Radix · first recordedICANN
“RTIS2674T-T50362 · Radix Technologies Inc SEZC · replacement string of .therapy”ICANN
“LFGL2683T-T90578 · Link Freedom Group Ltd · primary · contention set 2026-213 PTL2645T-T73740 · Pirin Tablet, LLC · primary · contention set 2026-213 RTIS2674T-T99763 · Radix Technologies Inc SEZC · replacement string of .robotics · Deactivated VIL2659T-T55269 · Verse International Limited · replacement string of .did · Deactivated”ICANN
“Radix has applied for these TLDs; we do not own or operate them today.”Radix
- Band chosen: 30-49 (usable but limited), at its lower edge. The string is an unambiguous, internationally recognized acronym for a specific medical procedure, and the buyer pool is commercial: fertility clinics are marketing-intensive businesses that compete online for high-value patients, so a short self-describing identity like city.ivf has genuine end-use utility. The record shows one applicant (Radix, a standard application, filed as a replacement string for its primary .therapy application) and no contention, which suggests a conventional open registry rather than a restricted vertical. It is not in the 50-69 band because demand is confined to a single narrow vertical: most clinics brand around 'fertility' or a clinic name, a procedure-named address would need explaining to patients, and there is no plausible aftermarket beyond a handful of geo and generic keywords. By analogy (flagged as analogy), 2012-round procedure- and practice-type medical strings such as .surgery, .clinic and .dental reached only modest registration levels and produced little secondary-market activity, and .ivf is narrower than any of them; actual counts are unknown here. It is not in the 10-29 band because it is not a joke or vanity string: the buyers are real businesses with budgets, the semantic fit is exact, and a serious clinic plausibly could use it as a primary identity over the next 5 years. Main market uncertainty: whether medical marketers, who are trust- and regulation-sensitive, will adopt a procedure-named TLD over an established .com, and whether a broader competing string (for example a .fertility) in the same round would absorb most of the intended buyers.