.jazz
Is .jazz a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.jazz is not contested. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. It is Automattic.
A charming address for jazz clubs, festivals and players, but a small genre niche with little resale value.
jazz musicians, clubs, festivals, labels, radio shows and educators who want a genre-specific address, plus a few brands using the word loosely
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 exactly: a music genre that doubles as a culture's own name, so the registry is wagering that a scene's practitioners and institutions will adopt the genre label as primary identity rather than treat it as a descriptive tag.
Also an art-form noun whose buyers are practitioners, studios, festivals and teachers putting identity on the discipline itself, though it is a broader discipline than a single genre and carries a verb/consumer reading that .jazz lacks.
The same practitioner-identity bet one level up the taxonomy — the category noun for the whole field rather than one genre within it — so it needs industry-wide adoption to work while .jazz only needs a scene.
What a .jazz domain is
.jazz is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under Culture. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list.
Is the .jazz domain extension real yet?
.jazz 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 .jazz domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .jazz name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .jazz was .hiphop, delegated on 15 May 2014.
Is .jazz a real TLD?
Not yet. .jazz is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .jazz is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- Automattic · first recordedICANN
“KKWT2621T-T70353 · Knock Knock WHOIS There, LLC · primary”ICANN
“KKWT2621T-T78272 · Knock Knock WHOIS There, LLC · replacement string of .craft · Deactivated LFGL2683T-T15033 · Link Freedom Group Ltd · primary · contention set 2026-81 RTIS2674T-T99384 · Radix Technologies Inc SEZC · replacement string of .mind · Deactivated VC2665T-T98880 · Vanity Check, LLC · primary · contention set 2026-81”ICANN
- Band chosen: 10-29 (vanity/narrow). .jazz is a single music-genre string, so its natural buyer pool is jazz venues, festivals, artists, labels, educators and radio programmes, plus occasional brand use of the word as an adjective. By analogy (flagged as analogy), existing music-adjacent TLDs such as .band, .dance and .music have found real but modest, community-scale demand rather than becoming a primary identity most musicians choose over .com or a social handle; a genre-specific string is narrower still than those. It is not in the 30-49 band because there is no realistic path to volume or price-driven registrations at scale over the next 5 years, and the aftermarket for genre words (club names, standards, musician surnames) would be thin. It is not in the 1-9 band because the community is identifiable, global and institution-rich (clubs, festivals, schools), so a sustained trickle of genuine primary-identity use is plausible. The single application on the record is from Automattic (legal name Knock Knock WHOIS There, LLC), standard type, and the same applicant's .rap application names .jazz as its primary; an operator with a large publishing platform could lift adoption somewhat through distribution, which I treat as modest upside rather than a band change. Main market uncertainty: whether venues and festivals, the stickiest likely buyers, actually move their primary identity to a genre address or only hold .jazz as a secondary redirect.