.learning
Is .learning a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.learning is not contested. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 8 October 2026. It is XYZ. Identity Digital named .learning as a backup string for its .asset application. ICANN deactivated it, because another applicant applied for the same string or named it as a backup. Identity Digital named .learning as a backup string for its .alliance application. ICANN deactivated it, because another applicant applied for the same string or named it as a backup. Intercap named .learning as a backup string for its .learn application. ICANN deactivated it, because another applicant applied for the same string or named it as a backup.
A clear education word with real uses, but most schools and learning companies will likely keep their .com and treat it as a side address.
edtech startups, online course creators, corporate training teams and tutors; secondarily machine-learning projects after word-hack names like machine.learning
Named on the ICANN gTLD application list, 7 October 2026 as a replacement (backup) string of the applicant's .learn application, shown as deactivated: another applicant applied for the same string or named it as a backup
Named on the ICANN gTLD application list, 7 October 2026 as a replacement (backup) string of the applicant's .alliance application, shown as deactivated: another applicant applied for the same string or named it as a backup
Named on the ICANN gTLD application list, 7 October 2026 as a replacement (backup) string of the applicant's .asset application, shown as deactivated: another applicant applied for the same string or named it as a backup
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 broad, uncountable abstract noun for an entire sector, sold open to any provider whose primary identity is "we teach things," and dependent on the same assumption that a horizontal category word can pull institutional and commercial registrants away from .com.
The same kind of word (an activity gerund covering the whole act of instruction) aimed at the same buyer set of course sellers, corporate learning providers and vocational schools, and it has to work the same way, by being generic enough that nobody owns it and specific enough that a visitor instantly knows what the site does.
Also an abstract activity noun in the education register on an open registry, but it leans toward the learner's side of the transaction (revision, exam prep, student tools) rather than the provider identity that .learning mostly has to attract, so the buyer overlaps without matching.
What a .learning domain is
.learning 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 .learning domain extension real yet?
.learning 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 .learning domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .learning name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .learning was .education, delegated on 28 December 2013.
Is .learning a real TLD?
Not yet. .learning is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .learning is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
“IRI2679T-T91711 · Intercap Registry Inc. · replacement string of .learn · Deactivated RC2677T-T15416 · Rein Check, LLC · replacement string of .alliance · Deactivated RC2677T-T23335 · Rein Check, LLC · replacement string of .asset · Deactivated XL2625T-T59418 · XYZ.COM LLC · primary”ICANN
- Band chosen: 30-49, usable but limited. The string is a plain, widely understood English noun with an obvious buyer pool (online education, course platforms, corporate learning-and-development, tutoring) and a secondary word-hack pull from the AI field (machine.learning, deep.learning, reinforcement.learning), which gives it more end-use utility than a vanity string. By analogy (flagged as analogy), the existing education-themed TLDs such as .academy, .education, .training, .courses and .school have, in my judgment, drawn registrations largely on price and theme rather than becoming the primary identity of serious institutions or funded edtech companies, which mostly stay on .com; .learning is unlikely to behave differently over the next 5 years, so it does not reach the 50-69 band of a strong niche with genuine sustained primary-identity use. It is not in the 10-29 band because demand is not event-driven or joke-like: the word is permanent, descriptive and brand-safe, and a tutor or course business could plausibly use name.learning as a primary address without embarrassment. Applicant facts on the record, stated neutrally: XYZ.COM LLC holds the confirmed standard application (XL2625T-T59418) and the contention count on the record is 1; two other applications (Intercap, Identity Digital) are recorded as deactivated. The string also crowds against .learn, which Intercap's deactivated application named as its primary, suggesting the shorter form competes for the same buyers. Main market uncertainty: whether edtech and ML projects would ever adopt a .learning address as their primary identity rather than as a redirect, and how much the AI word-hack niche (machine.learning etc.) is worth beyond a handful of premium names.