.math
Is .math a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody has applied for .math in its own right, as of 7 October 2026. Link Freedom Group named .math as the backup string of its .send application.
Nobody has applied for .math in its own right.
Will names sell?
A tidy label for math learning sites and tools, but most serious projects would still put their main address on a mainstream ending.
Last round the AI scored the 2012 strings blind to their fate. Strings it scored 60 or more hold a median 27,168 names today; those under 30, a median of 30. .math’s closest 2012 strings hold .science 12K, .engineering 11K and .physio 972.
The nearest 2012 strings, and how many names each holds today
The closest 2012 string, .science, held 12,113 names, June 2026. .engineering held 11,436; .physio held 972. Chosen by AI from every string in the 2012 round, without being told what happened to any of them.
Same bet: a bare field-of-knowledge noun sold as identity to a discipline's own people — departments, researchers, educators, journals and enthusiasts — where the buyer is credibility-driven rather than commercial, so it lives or dies on whether a scholarly community adopts a label it already calls itself.
Also a single named academic/technical discipline used as an identity string, but its buyers skew to revenue-generating firms and practitioners, whereas the math bet leans on institutions, teachers and tutors with thinner willingness to pay.
The closest structural twin in shape and scale — a clipped short form of a longer discipline name (physiotherapy / mathematics) aimed at a narrow, self-identifying specialist community rather than a mass market — differing mainly in that its community sells services while math's mostly teaches.
math tutors, edtech startups, olympiad and puzzle communities, calculator and solver tools, and educators who want a subject-labeled address for a course or resource hub.
What a .math domain is
.math is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, in our Other category. Nobody has applied for .math in its own right. It is named on ICANN’s list as part of an application for another string.
Is the .math domain extension real yet?
.math 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 .math domain?
You can’t yet. A .math name can only be registered once the string is delegated (added to the DNS root) and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .math was .science, delegated on 15 November 2014.
Is .math a real TLD?
Not yet. .math is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because ICANN’s list names .math as part of an application for another string. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- Link Freedom Group · now replacementICANN
- Link Freedom Group · first recordedLink Freedom Group
“LFGL2683T-T58902 · Link Freedom Group Ltd · replacement string of .send”ICANN
“.math · Infra · “Everything counts.””Link Freedom Group
- Band: usable but limited (30-49). The word is universally understood, spans every language's schooling market, and maps to a real buyer set: tutoring services, edtech products, solver and calculator tools, and math-community projects. But subject-word TLDs have historically struggled to become primary identities: by analogy, science- and education-flavored endings drew volume mostly when priced cheap, attracted bulk and throwaway registrations, and produced thin aftermarkets; that is an analogy, not a measured claim, since I have no verified figures here. Education buyers are also conservative and budget-constrained, favoring .com, .org, or country-code endings, so a .math address usually needs explaining, which is exactly what keeps it out of the strong-niche band (50-69): there is no evidence of sustained primary-identity demand or a real resale market for subject endings like this. It sits above the vanity band (10-29) because demand would not be event-driven or joke-driven: math education is a durable, global category with steady small-business formation, so registrations at volume are plausible and some products would genuinely use exact-match names like a solver or tutoring brand on .math as a working identity over the next 5 years. The AI wave adds a modest tailwind, since math benchmarks and reasoning tools are a visible theme, though those projects tend to brand on .ai or .com. Main market uncertainty: whether edtech and tutoring buyers treat a subject-word ending as credible enough for a primary identity, or only as a redirect/campaign domain, which is the difference between the top and bottom of this band.