.member
Is .member a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.member is not contested. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. It is Squarespace. Sockeye LLC named .member as a backup string for its .alum application. ICANN deactivated it, because another applicant applied for the same string or named it as a backup. Cam Connecting SARL named .member as a backup string for its .official application. ICANN deactivated it, because another applicant applied for the same string or named it as a backup.
A descriptive word that fits member portals and loyalty sites, but few projects would make it their main web address.
clubs, associations and loyalty programs wanting a members-only portal address, plus website-builder customers offered it as an add-on
Named on the ICANN gTLD application list, 7 October 2026 as a replacement (backup) string of the applicant's .official application, shown as deactivated: another applicant applied for the same string or named it as a backup
Named on the ICANN gTLD application list, 7 October 2026 as a replacement (backup) string of the applicant's .alum 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 open generic noun for belonging, sold to the organizations that have affiliated people (and to those people themselves) as a place to put a group identity, with the registry's value resting entirely on how many groups bother to re-badge their membership at a new string.
Also a generic collective-belonging noun aimed at the same buyer — any association, co-op, congregation or interest group wanting an address that says 'these people are ours' — though it names the group as a whole rather than the individual's standing inside it.
The same kind of relational group noun doing the same job (an affiliation label a collective and its individuals share), but the affiliation it implies is working or playing together rather than enrolled-and-paying, so the membership-organization buyer is only partly the same.
What a .member domain is
.member is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under Commerce. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list.
Is the .member domain extension real yet?
.member 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 .member domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .member name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .member was .club, delegated on 18 January 2014.
Is .member a real TLD?
Not yet. .member is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .member is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
“CCS2640T-T64563 · Cam Connecting SARL · replacement string of .official · Deactivated SL2649T-T20948 · Sockeye LLC · replacement string of .alum · Deactivated SRL2616T-T75748 · Squarespace Registry LLC · primary”ICANN
“SRL2616T-T75748 · Squarespace Registry LLC · primary”ICANN
- Band chosen: 30-49 (usable but limited), at its floor. The string describes a person or role rather than an organization, so it works mainly as a secondary address for a portal (a brand's members-only area, a club's login page, a loyalty program) rather than as a primary identity; serious projects would still anchor on their own .com or local TLD. By analogy (flagged as analogy), role- and group-descriptor TLDs such as .club, .vip, .community and .team have reached registrations largely through promotional pricing or short-lived speculative waves rather than durable primary-identity use, and their aftermarkets have stayed thin outside a few short words. It is not in the 50-69 band because there is no category where .member would be the expected address needing no explanation, and no sustained demand signal I can point to. It is not in the 10-29 band because the membership-portal use case is real and recurring across many sectors, and the verified facts record a confirmed standard application from Squarespace Registry LLC, an operator attached to a website-building platform, which raises the likelihood of distribution to existing site owners (neutral fact, used only for adoption likelihood). Main market uncertainty: whether membership and loyalty operators treat a separate portal address as useful or simply keep using subdomains and paths on their existing domain, which would leave .member as a defensive or novelty registration over the next 5 years.