.lms
Is .lms a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody has applied for .lms in its own right, as of 8 October 2026. Identity Digital named .lms as the replacement string of its .national application. Identity Digital named .lms as the replacement string of its .program application. Identity Digital named .lms as the replacement string of its .more application. Identity Digital named .lms as the replacement string of its .bakery application.
A learning-platform acronym: handy for a school or company training portal, but rarely a main web address.
edtech vendors, universities and corporate training teams who want a short address for a learning-management portal (acme.lms) rather than a subdomain
No applications recorded for this TLD yet.
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 three-letter insider acronym naming the standard back-office system an entire vertical runs on, so the buyer is the platform operator and the vertical's practitioners rather than the public, and it only works if the industry's own jargon is strong enough to carry an identity.
Also an industry system acronym sold to the vendors and operators of that system, with the same dependency on trade-jargon recognition, but the letters are more contested across unrelated readings than the target's single dominant meaning.
Another B2B technology-category acronym whose audience is the vendors and buyers inside one software sector, though it labels a delivery model rather than a product category an institution would brand its own portal with.
What a .lms domain is
.lms is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under AI & tech. Nobody has applied for .lms in its own right. It is named on ICANN’s list as part of an application for another string.
Is the .lms domain extension real yet?
.lms is not yet a domain extension you can register: nothing resolves under it, and no registrar sells names in it. Nobody has applied for it on the public record; the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round is the process that would decide whether it becomes one.
When can you buy a .lms domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .lms name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .lms was .mls, delegated on 20 April 2016.
Is .lms a real TLD?
Not yet. .lms is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because ICANN’s list names .lms as part of an application for another string. Every entry on this page links to its source.
“TCL2632T-T11771 · Tidal Case, LLC · replacement string of .bakery TCL2632T-T35528 · Tidal Case, LLC · replacement string of .more TCL2632T-T43447 · Tidal Case, LLC · replacement string of .national TCL2632T-T59285 · Tidal Case, LLC · replacement string of .program”ICANN
“TCL2632T-T35528 · Tidal Case, LLC · primary · contention set 2026-159 XL2625T-T48608 · XYZ.COM LLC · primary · contention set 2026-159”ICANN
- Band chosen: 10-29 (vanity/narrow). The string reads as the acronym for learning management system, a real and large software category used by schools, universities and corporate L&D teams, so there is a definable buyer group and a plausible functional use: a short address for a login portal in place of a learn.example.com subdomain. That keeps it out of the 1-9 band. It is not in the 30-49 band because the demand is portal-shaped, not identity-shaped: the LMS vendors themselves brand on mainstream TLDs, institutions anchor on their existing education or country domains, and an acronym TLD gives little brand signal to a non-specialist audience, so volume or price-driven registrations at scale are not a reasonable expectation and the aftermarket would be thin. By analogy (flagged as analogy), education-adjacent generic TLDs such as .education, .academy, .school, .courses and .training have sustained modest but unspectacular registration bases without becoming primary identities, and short-acronym TLDs have generally struggled unless the acronym is a corporate suffix; .lms sits below those because it names a tool rather than a field. Verified facts on the record: one application, by Identity Digital (legal name Tidal Case, LLC), filed as a replacement string for its .bakery application, standard type, no contention recorded; this says the operator has portfolio distribution but nothing about the string's demand. Main market uncertainty: whether any hosted LMS platform would adopt .lms as the default vanity address it issues to tenant institutions, which is the one adoption path that could turn it into a convention rather than a curiosity over the next 5 years.