.joinus
Is .joinus a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody has applied for .joinus in its own right, as of 7 October 2026. TLD1 named .joinus as the backup string of its .bewell application.
Nobody has applied for .joinus in its own right.
Will names sell?
A catchy call-to-action suffix for clubs, causes, and campaigns, but more a redirect than a serious primary web identity.
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. .joinus’s closest 2012 strings hold .rsvp 3K, .gives 4K and .meet 51.
The nearest 2012 strings, and how many names each holds today
The closest 2012 string, .rsvp, held 2,765 names, June 2026. .gives held 4,222; .meet held 51. Chosen by AI from every string in the 2012 round, without being told what happened to any of them.
Same bet: a short imperative call-to-action string whose value is as a link someone sends to prompt an action, not a category anyone puts primary identity on.
Same construction and buyer — a verb string that only reads correctly as brand-plus-action (redcross.gives / redcross.joinus), sold to nonprofits, clubs and campaigns for a single conversion link rather than a home address.
Also an action word rather than a category noun, betting organizations will pay for a verb that frames an invitation to gather or connect, with the same weakness that no one's core identity lives there.
community organizers, clubs, nonprofits, event promoters, and recruiting or membership-drive teams who want a name that doubles as an invitation
What a .joinus domain is
.joinus is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, in our Culture category. Nobody has applied for .joinus in its own right. It is named on ICANN’s list as part of an application for another string.
Is the .joinus domain extension real yet?
.joinus 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 .joinus domain?
You can’t yet. A .joinus 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 .joinus was .rsvp, delegated on 30 August 2014.
Is .joinus a real TLD?
Not yet. .joinus is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because ICANN’s list names .joinus as part of an application for another string. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- Band chosen: 10-29 (vanity/narrow). The string is a two-word call-to-action phrase, and by analogy with other phrase-style TLDs (.forsale, .vote-style campaign strings), such strings tend to be used as marketing redirects or short-lived campaign landers rather than as an organization's primary identity; that is an analogy-based inference, since registration and renewal figures for those TLDs are unknown here. It is not in the 30-49 band because volume-driven registration behavior of the kind community-generic TLDs like .club saw (an analogy; actual counts unknown) seems unlikely for a longer, grammatically awkward phrase that reads oddly in front of most brand names, and the aftermarket for CTA phrase strings has, by analogy, been thin. It is not in the 1-9 band because there is a real if narrow use case: membership drives, church and club recruitment, and event sign-up pages where name.joinus reads naturally as an invitation, so some sustained low-volume demand over the next 5 years is plausible. The applicant, TLD1 LLC, positions it for communities, causes, teams, clubs, and events, which matches the plausible buyer set. Main market uncertainty: whether marketing and community teams will pay for CTA-style domains as durable campaign infrastructure over the next 5 years, or continue defaulting to paths and link-in-bio tools on their existing domains.