.mentor
Is .mentor a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody has applied for .mentor in its own right, as of 7 October 2026. Squarespace named .mentor as the replacement string of its .learn application.
A clear word for coaches and mentorship programs, but a narrow one; most will use it as a side address, not a main brand.
independent coaches, mentorship programs and career-advice services who want a descriptive address for a personal or program site
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 exactly: a singular, unregulated helping-profession role noun that an individual practitioner or small advisory practice adopts as their primary identity, with no licensing body to gate it and no corporate owner to defend it.
Also a self-declared advisory-capability noun aimed at individual professionals who sell judgment rather than a product, though it reads as a claim about competence instead of a named relationship, so it leans more toward descriptive suffix use than owned identity.
The same unlicensed advisor-role bet on a person who guides others, but the word's informal/borrowed register pushes it toward playful suffix usage rather than the earnest professional identity a mentor string would need to carry.
What a .mentor domain is
.mentor is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under Commerce. Nobody has applied for .mentor in its own right. It is named on ICANN’s list as part of an application for another string.
Is the .mentor domain extension real yet?
.mentor 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 .mentor domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .mentor name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .mentor was .coach, delegated on 26 November 2014.
Is .mentor a real TLD?
Not yet. .mentor is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because ICANN’s list names .mentor as part of an application for another string. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- Squarespace · first recordedICANN
“SRL2616T-T20315 · Squarespace Registry LLC · replacement string of .learn”ICANN
“NA2631T-T60668 · Registry Services, LLC · primary SRL2616T-T16041 · Squarespace Registry LLC · replacement string of .goods · Deactivated XL2625T-T38044 · XYZ.COM LLC · replacement string of .mall · Deactivated”ICANN
- Band chosen: 30-49 (usable but limited). The string is a plain, well-understood English word describing a real activity (mentoring, coaching, career guidance) and reads cleanly as an address, so registrations at volume or on promotion are plausible, particularly if the operator offers it to its own website-builder customers at signup; the record shows Squarespace Registry LLC as the sole applicant, filed as a replacement string for its primary .learn application, with no contention recorded. It is not in the 50-69 band because, by analogy to descriptive-profession strings such as .coach, .guru, .expert and .consulting, demand has been real but shallow: such strings are mostly bought as secondary or redirect names, aftermarket resale is thin, and few serious projects adopt them as primary identity, and .mentor is a narrower word than .coach (analogy flagged). It is not in the 10-29 band because mentoring is a durable commercial and institutional category (corporate programs, universities, accelerators, independent coaches) rather than a joke or event-driven word, so a steady trickle of sincere primary-identity use is likely over the next 5 years. Main market uncertainty: whether the operator bundles the TLD into its own site-builder onboarding at scale; by analogy to other platform-owned registry strings, captive distribution could lift volume well above the typical profession-word outcome, while a registrar-only rollout would leave it near the bottom of this band. Registration counts, prices and resale figures for the analog TLDs are unknown and are not asserted here.