.nlp
Is .nlp a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody has applied for .nlp in its own right, as of 8 October 2026. Identity Digital named .nlp as the replacement string of its .stay application. Identity Digital named .nlp as the replacement string of its .point application. Identity Digital named .nlp as the replacement string of its .gpt application.
A short acronym two niche professional groups recognise, but most AI projects will likely still reach for .ai first.
ai and language-technology startups, academic natural-language-processing research groups, and neuro-linguistic programming coaches and trainers who want a short, field-specific address
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: a three-letter acronym for a specialized professional practice that no single firm owns and that carries two live readings (certified public accountant / cost-per-action, as NLP reads natural-language processing / neuro-linguistic programming), so the registry is selling shorthand to a dispersed practitioner community rather than a brand or a plain category noun.
Also an initialism that is the name of an entire discipline, where buyers are practitioners, schools and tool vendors each putting their own identity on the field's shorthand — the same own-the-abbreviation-of-a-practice wager, in sport rather than a technical field.
Another acronym for a professional domain whose value depends on practitioners and training providers adopting it as identity, though it leans on a credential with accrediting gatekeepers where .nlp is an open technical method with no certifying body.
What a .nlp domain is
.nlp 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 .nlp in its own right. It is named on ICANN’s list as part of an application for another string.
Is the .nlp domain extension real yet?
.nlp 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 .nlp domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .nlp name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .nlp was .cpa, delegated on 20 September 2019.
Is .nlp a real TLD?
Not yet. .nlp is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because ICANN’s list names .nlp as part of an application for another string. Every entry on this page links to its source.
“PTL2645T-T34145 · Pirin Tablet, LLC · replacement string of .gpt PTL2645T-T49983 · Pirin Tablet, LLC · replacement string of .point PTL2645T-T89578 · Pirin Tablet, LLC · replacement string of .stay”ICANN
“PTL2645T-T26226 · Pirin Tablet, LLC · primary”ICANN
- Band chosen: 30-49, usable but limited. The string .nlp carries two established meanings: natural language processing (the AI sub-field) and neuro-linguistic programming (a coaching and self-development practice). Both communities are real and durable over the next 5 years, the string is short and pronounceable as an acronym, and a research group or coaching practice could plausibly use it as a primary identity; that keeps it out of the 10-29 vanity band. It is not in the 50-69 band because, by analogy with how .ai absorbed the AI-identity market and how acronym and sub-field strings such as .bot or .tech have tended to see thin aftermarkets, AI projects seeking an AI-flavoured address are likely to default to .ai, and 'NLP' as a branding term appears to be yielding ground to 'AI' and 'LLM' in product naming (inference from analogy and observed naming trends, not a measured fact). The coaching audience is numerous but typically price-sensitive, which points to volume-on-price registrations and a weak brand signal rather than a category standard. On the record, the single application is a standard (not brand, community or geographic) application by Identity Digital (Pirin Tablet, LLC), listed as a replacement string for .gpt; a standard application implies open registration, which supports adoption likelihood but says nothing about pricing or channel. Main market uncertainty: whether the acronym remains current in AI product branding over the period, and whether the neuro-linguistic programming community adopts it at any volume rather than staying on .com and local ccTLDs.