.nonprofit
Is .nonprofit a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.nonprofit is not contested. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. It is Public Interest Registry.
A clear label for charities, but .org already owns that role, so most groups would treat it as a backup rather than their main address.
nonprofits, charities and foundations that want an explicit sector label on their address, mostly US-based organisations and defensive registrants protecting an existing .org identity
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.
Identical bet: the sector's own status label as a namespace, sold to the same entities on the same premise that a verified claim of non-commercial status is worth putting primary identity on.
The same generic sector-status noun for the same buyer in British English, living or dying on the same question of who is allowed to claim it and whether the sector will re-brand off .org to do so.
Same bet exactly — the sector abbreviating itself as its address — but priced on a non-English-speaking sector adopting the acronym rather than on a word every donor already reads.
What a .nonprofit domain is
.nonprofit is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under Other. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list.
Is the .nonprofit domain extension real yet?
.nonprofit 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 .nonprofit domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .nonprofit name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .nonprofit was .ngo, delegated on 18 July 2014.
Is .nonprofit a real TLD?
Not yet. .nonprofit is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .nonprofit is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- Public Interest Registry · first recordedICANN
“PIR2624T-T31629 · Public Interest Registry · primary”ICANN
- Band chosen: 30-49 (usable but limited). The string names a real, large sector with genuine demand for descriptive identities, and the single confirmed applicant on the record, Public Interest Registry, is the operator of .org, which makes registrar distribution and bundling alongside .org plausible and raises adoption likelihood relative to an unknown operator. It is not in the 50-69 band because the sector already has an entrenched default in .org that serious organisations choose without explanation; a longer, US-centric word ('nonprofit' rather than 'charity' or 'NGO' in much of the world) adds little credibility beyond what .org gives and would need explaining to donors. By analogy (flagged as analogy), sector-descriptor TLDs aimed at the same buyers, such as .ngo/.ong, .charity, .foundation and .gives, saw thin uptake and negligible aftermarkets after launch, with registrations driven by defensive or promotional motives rather than primary identity. It is not in the 10-29 band because it is a serious, non-joke descriptor with sustained institutional demand, and some organisations, especially new ones that cannot get a clean .org, would plausibly use it as a primary identity; defensive registrations by established nonprofits would also give it steady, if unexciting, volume. Main market uncertainty: whether the registry restricts registration to verified nonprofit entities, which would turn the TLD into a trust signal (pushing toward the top of the band) or leaves it open, which would make it indistinguishable from other descriptive strings (pushing toward the bottom). Specific registration counts, prices and launch dates for the analogues are unknown here and are not asserted.