.linz
Is .linz a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.linz is not contested. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. It is domainworx Service & Management GmbH.
A local-pride address for Linz businesses and institutions; useful in town, little weight or resale value beyond it.
local businesses, cultural institutions, civic bodies and residents of Linz, Austria who want an address that signals the city
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: the German-language endonym of an Austrian city, where the applicant is the city or its agent and the revenue depends on local businesses and residents being willing to move their primary identity onto a civic string.
A single-city, German-speaking, non-capital geo string of comparable market size, carrying the same assumption that a prosperous mid-size city's business community will pay to signal localness.
Another city-government-backed German-language city name whose whole case rests on municipal endorsement plus a dense local SME base, not on tourism or category search demand.
What a .linz domain is
.linz is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under Places. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list.
Is the .linz domain extension real yet?
.linz 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 .linz domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .linz name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .linz was .wien, delegated on 3 January 2014.
Is .linz a real TLD?
Not yet. .linz is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .linz is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- domainworx Service & Management GmbH · first recordedICANN
“DSMG2627T-T52616 · domainworx Service & Management GmbH · primary”ICANN
- Band chosen: 10-29 (vanity/narrow), at its upper edge. The string names a single mid-sized Austrian city, and the record shows one confirmed application typed by ICANN as a geographic name, with no contention. By analogy (flagged as analogy) with German-speaking city and regional TLDs from the earlier round such as .wien, .koeln, .tirol and .hamburg, city strings draw a core of local firms, clubs and civic bodies plus a thin layer of defensive registrations, then plateau; serious primary-identity use happens but stays a small, local phenomenon, and aftermarket activity is marginal. It is not in the 30-49 band because a city smaller than Vienna or Cologne is unlikely to generate volume registrations or a recognisable brand signal outside its own region over the next 5 years, and by analogy the earlier-round city TLDs did not establish a meaningful resale market even in larger cities. It is not in the 1-9 band because a real city with its own businesses, universities and cultural institutions gives a genuine, if small, pool of buyers who would plausibly use the address as a primary identity. Registration counts and renewal rates for comparable city TLDs are unknown (not in the facts block). Main market uncertainty: whether the city administration and major local institutions adopt .linz as a primary web identity, which in analogous cases has been the difference between a visible local namespace and a dormant one.