.move
Is .move a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.move is not contested. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. It is .TOP Registry. GoDaddy Registry named .move as a backup string for its .park application. ICANN deactivated it, because another applicant applied for the same string or named it as a backup.
A short, upbeat verb that fits fitness, relocation and mobility brands, but it points at no single market and will mostly sell on price.
fitness, dance and wellness brands, moving and relocation services, mobility and transport startups, and crypto projects built on the Move smart-contract language looking for a short call-to-action address
Named on the ICANN gTLD application list, 7 October 2026 as a replacement (backup) string of the applicant's .park 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: a one-syllable English motion verb that is simultaneously a consumer call-to-action and the plain-language label for a mobility/transport category, so the registry has to sell a verb that no single industry owns outright.
Same bet of a bare generic verb doubling as the vernacular name of a fragmented local-services trade, where the primary identity holders are small operators who already describe their work with that exact word.
Same short-verb-of-motion bet sold to a movement/logistics buyer, but narrower — it resolves to one industry's action rather than carrying the relocation plus fitness plus mobility ambiguity the target has to monetize.
What a .move domain is
.move 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 .move domain extension real yet?
.move 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 .move domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .move name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .move was .drive, delegated on 20 June 2015.
Is .move a real TLD?
Not yet. .move is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .move is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
“HKZI2636T-T95610 · Hong Kong Zhongze International Limited · primary”ICANN
“HKZI2636T-T95610 · Hong Kong Zhongze International Limited · primary NA2631T-T52749 · Registry Services, LLC · replacement string of .park · Deactivated”ICANN
- Band chosen: usable but limited (30-49). .move is a common English verb with several plausible meanings (relocation, fitness, mobility, a smart-contract programming language), which makes it marketable as a call-to-action suffix (e.g. a brand paired with 'move') but denies it a home category. By analogy with other verb and action TLDs already in market (.run, .fit, .go-style strings), such strings tend to reach registration volume mainly through promotional pricing, with thin aftermarkets and few serious primary identities beyond small studios and campaign microsites; that pattern is an inference from analogy, not from recorded data. It is not in the strong-niche band above because no single buyer group (moving companies, gyms, mobility apps, Move-language crypto projects) is large and cohesive enough to make .move an explaining-free default, and a relocation firm or fitness brand still has an obvious .com alternative. It is not in the vanity band below because the word is short, positive, brandable and carries genuine end-use fit for several real service categories, so some sustained non-joke registration demand is likely over the next 5 years. On the record, one confirmed standard application (.TOP Registry) and one deactivated application (GoDaddy Registry, which moved its primary to .park); the confirmed applicant operates an existing gTLD, which makes a conventional open launch likely but does not by itself settle positioning. Main market uncertainty: whether the Move-language crypto ecosystem or a large fitness/mobility brand adopts the string as identity, which would pull it toward a niche standard, versus the more probable outcome of volume-priced generic use.