.math
Is .math a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.math is not contested. One applicant has said publicly that it applied to run it, and nobody else has, as of 15 August 2026. It is Link Freedom Group.
A tidy label for math learning sites and tools, but most serious projects would still put their main address on a mainstream ending.
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.
In LFG's published list of 300+ strings submitted before the ICANN window closed on 2026-08-12. Their catalog tagline: “Everything counts.”
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 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.
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, filed under Other. One applicant has said publicly that it applied for .math.
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. 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 .math domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .math name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .math was .science, delegated on .
Is .math a real TLD?
Not yet. .math is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because an applicant said publicly that it applied for .math in the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round. Every claim on this page links to its source.
- Link Freedom Group · first recordedLink Freedom Group
“.math · Infra · “Everything counts.””Link Freedom Group
“LFG voluntarily published its full list of submissions ahead of ICANN’s official Reveal Day.”PR Newswire (Link Freedom Group)
“Top level domain registry Link Freedom Group (LFG) has disclosed more than 300 strings submitted as part of the ICANN new top level domain name program.”Domain Name Wire (Andrew Allemann)
- 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.