.larus
Is .larus a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.larus is not contested. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. It is Innovation Service Limited.
An obscure Latin word (the gull genus) with no obvious buyer group; few projects would pick it as their main web address.
ornithology or birding projects, and a handful of companies or people who already use "Larus" as a name, mostly as a novelty or redirect
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 Latin noun with no commercial meaning to a general audience, taken as a single organization's proprietary namespace, so its value rests entirely on the applicant's own identity-building rather than on any category demand.
Same bet in shape — a four-letter, vowel-soft, semantically opaque word that reads as an invented corporate mark, viable only if one owner puts its primary identity behind it and nobody else ever needs the string.
Also a non-dictionary, brandable single word applied for as a closed house identity, where success depends on a single applicant's marketing rather than on registrants arriving with pre-existing intent for the word.
What a .larus domain is
.larus is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under Other. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list.
Is the .larus domain extension real yet?
.larus 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 .larus domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .larus name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .larus was .locus, delegated on 9 March 2016.
Is .larus a real TLD?
Not yet. .larus is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .larus is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- Innovation Service Limited · first recordedICANN
“ISL2626T-T27355 · Innovation Service Limited · primary”ICANN
“AT2680T-T24214 · Arctic Tan, LLC · primary ISL2626T-T43193 · Innovation Service Limited · replacement string of .faq · Deactivated”ICANN
- Band chosen: 1-9, no realistic market. The string is the Latin genus name for gulls and otherwise appears only as a scattered surname and company name; it is not a word a general buyer recognizes, not a category, and not a geography. The record shows one standard (non-brand) application from Innovation Service Limited, with .nrs recorded as a replacement string for that application; nothing in the verified facts points to a community, a brand rollout, or a demand channel. It is not in the 10-29 band because that band assumes the string is at least memorable or event-driven for some audience; by analogy with other obscure dictionary or Latin-root new gTLDs from the 2012 round (analogy, not data), such strings have tended to draw low registration counts dominated by defensive or speculative names rather than primary identities. It is not below 1-9 because that is the floor. Main market uncertainty: whether the applicant intends a closed or themed use (for example a naming or services platform) that would give the string a purpose the plain word does not carry; registration volume and renewal rates for comparable strings are unknown.