.legacy
Is .legacy a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.legacy is not contested. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. It is Intercap. XYZ named .legacy as a backup string for its .factory application. ICANN deactivated it, because another applicant applied for the same string or named it as a backup.
A warm, positive word that fits memorial pages, family sites and estate planners, but few serious projects would make it their main address.
families, memorial and tribute sites, estate-planning and wealth advisers, foundations and endowments, and brands running a "leave a legacy" campaign
Named on the ICANN gTLD application list, 7 October 2026 as a replacement (backup) string of the applicant's .factory 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: an emotionally weighted abstract English noun sold to families and the remembrance trade, where the registry is wagering that people will pay for the word's sentimental meaning rather than for a category keyword that describes a product.
Same bet on a life-stage abstraction whose actual paying identity-holders are planners and advisors in the wealth-transfer business, so the string has to earn its price from a professional sector borrowing a consumer-facing feeling word.
Same bet on a sector's own virtue-word as an identity: nonprofits and donor-facing programs adopting an abstract act rather than a category noun, which works only if an industry already speaks that word about itself.
What a .legacy domain is
.legacy 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 .legacy domain extension real yet?
.legacy 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 .legacy domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .legacy name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .legacy was .memorial, delegated on 26 November 2014.
Is .legacy a real TLD?
Not yet. .legacy is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .legacy is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- Band chosen: 30-49, usable but limited. The string is a clean, positive dictionary word with several natural end uses: family and memorial pages (smith.legacy), estate-planning and wealth-management firms, charitable foundations, planned-giving programs, and campaign microsites built around the idea of leaving something behind. It is not in the 50-69 band because none of those uses is a sustained, self-explaining primary identity: a law firm or wealth adviser will keep its brand on a mainstream TLD and at most point a .legacy name at a campaign, and memorial use is low-frequency, emotional and often served by platforms rather than standalone domains. It is not in the 10-29 band because the word is sincere rather than a joke, carries a credible brand signal in its verticals, and the confirmed applicant, Intercap Registry Inc. (standard application, status confirmed, per the verified-facts block), also appeared on the record with a deactivated .forever backup, which signals a deliberate thematic positioning rather than a throwaway string; a second application by XYZ.COM LLC is recorded as deactivated. By analogy (flagged as analogy), sentiment-word TLDs such as .life, .family, .foundation and .charity have found real but modest end use, mostly secondary names and campaign sites, with thin aftermarkets; .legacy is likely to track the quieter end of that group because the word also reads as 'outdated' in software and IT contexts, which caps tech-sector appeal. Counts, volumes and prices for those analogues are unknown here and are not asserted. Main market uncertainty: whether the estate-planning and memorial verticals, which are fragmented and conservative about online identity, adopt a dedicated suffix at all over the next 5 years, or whether demand stays limited to one-off tribute sites and defensive brand registrations.