.joinus
Is .joinus a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.joinus is not contested. One applicant has said publicly that it applied to run it, and nobody else has, as of 15 August 2026. It is TLD1 LLC.
A catchy call-to-action suffix for clubs, causes, and campaigns, but more a redirect than a serious primary web identity.
community organizers, clubs, nonprofits, event promoters, and recruiting or membership-drive teams who want a name that doubles as an invitation
One of four strings TLD1 LLC says it is applying for in the ICANN 2026 round. Their description: “An open invitation. Built for communities, causes, teams, clubs, and events that want people to take part.”
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 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.
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, filed under Culture. One applicant has said publicly that it applied for .joinus.
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. 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 .joinus domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .joinus name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .joinus was .rsvp, delegated on .
Is .joinus a real TLD?
Not yet. .joinus is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because an applicant said publicly that it applied for .joinus in the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round. Every claim on this page links to its source.
- TLD1 LLC · first recordedTLD1 LLC
“An open invitation. Built for communities, causes, teams, clubs, and events that want people to take part.”TLD1 LLC
- 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.