.module
Is .module a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody has applied for .module in its own right, as of 7 October 2026. NextGEN TLDs named .module as the backup string of its .rating application.
A developer word for a part, not a product — expect hobby projects and tooling hacks, rarely a serious main web address.
developers and software tooling projects (package authors, modular-framework docs, plugin ecosystems), plus a small fringe in modular hardware and prefab construction
In Journey To The West's published portfolio of 323 strings submitted in the ICANN 2026 round. Their catalog line: “A self-contained building block of bigger systems.”
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 plain generic noun for a unit of software that nobody owns, sold as an open namespace where developers hang an artifact rather than a corporate identity, so its value rides entirely on developer mindshare volume.
Same kind of word doing the same job — an unowned English technical category noun aimed at technical vendors — but it names the whole product a company sells rather than a component inside someone else's system.
Another generic engineering-abstraction noun betting technical firms will take a descriptive suffix as primary identity, differing mainly in scale: a system is the container, a module the part, so the buyer skews integrator rather than package publisher.
What a .module domain is
.module 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 .module in its own right. It is named on ICANN’s list as part of an application for another string.
Is the .module domain extension real yet?
.module 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 .module domain?
You can’t yet. A .module 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 .module was .app, delegated on 2 July 2015.
Is .module a real TLD?
Not yet. .module is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because ICANN’s list names .module as part of an application for another string. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- Journey To The West · now abandonedICANN
- NextGEN TLDs · first recordedICANN
- Journey To The West · first recordedJourney To The West Corporation
“NTG2671T-T86312 · NextGEN TLDs GmbH · replacement string of .rating”ICANN
“.module · Tech & Electronics · “A self-contained building block of bigger systems.””Journey To The West Corporation
- The word 'module' names a component of something larger, not a standalone product, so it works better as a suffix hack (docs sites, plugin namespaces, per-module subpages) than as a primary identity — that structural weakness caps it. By analogy (flagged as analogy), adjacent dev-vocabulary TLDs like .software, .systems, and .codes sustain modest registration bases with thin aftermarkets and little primary-identity use, and .module sits below them because it denotes a part rather than a whole. A plausible functional niche exists in domain-based module/import namespacing used by some developer ecosystems, but that is tooling demand, not brand demand, and it is speculative. Band 10-29 fits: above 1-9 because a real developer vocabulary market exists and analogous minor dev TLDs do get registrations; below 30-49 because even price-driven volume is doubtful and the brand signal for a serious project is weak. Main market uncertainty: whether developer tooling conventions generate functional demand for module-path domains at any meaningful volume over the next 5 years. The applicant is a Beijing-based portfolio applicant with 323 submitted strings, which I treat neutrally as suggesting broad catalog coverage rather than dedicated category marketing.