.painting
Is .painting a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.painting is not contested. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. It is Identity Digital.
A clear, real-word address for painters and painting businesses, but most will still prefer .com or .art; expect low-price, low-volume use.
painting contractors and decorators, plus fine-art painters, art teachers and small studios who want a descriptive web address rather than a brand
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 single-trade gerund noun whose primary registrants are small local contractors buying a self-describing address, so its value rests entirely on trades adopting a vertical TLD rather than their .com.
Same bet: an activity-noun naming one hands-on service trade, aimed at the same fragmented base of local service operators who would put their whole business identity on the word for what they do.
Same bet on the practitioner side: one named craft/medium rather than the whole art or services sector, monetized by individual practitioners identifying as the discipline — but it skews creative-professional rather than contractor.
What a .painting domain is
.painting is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under Culture. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list.
Is the .painting domain extension real yet?
.painting 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 .painting domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .painting name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .painting was .plumbing, delegated on 14 November 2013.
Is .painting a real TLD?
Not yet. .painting is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .painting is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- Identity Digital · first recordedICANN
“LFGL2683T-T42435 · Link Freedom Group Ltd · primary · contention set 2026-4 RTIS2674T-T94356 · Radix Technologies Inc SEZC · primary · contention set 2026-4 SS2654T-T19815 · Hair Apparent, LLC · replacement string of .plan · Deactivated SS2654T-T49354 · Hair Apparent, LLC · replacement string of .coaching · Deactivated SS2654T-T57273 · Hair Apparent, LLC · replacement string of .control · Deactivated”ICANN
- Band chosen: 30-49 (usable but limited), at its floor. The string has two plausible markets, house/commercial painting trades and fine-art painting, which is a mild plus for registration volume, and the applicant on the record, Identity Digital, is a portfolio registry whose earlier generic strings (by analogy: .photography, .gallery, .design-adjacent descriptive terms) reached wide registrar distribution, so availability through normal channels is likely. It is not in the 50-69 band because there is no evidence of sustained primary-identity demand: fine-art painters already have an established descriptive namespace in .art (analogy), and trade contractors in most markets default to .com or country codes, so adoption of .painting would need explaining and would compete on price. It is not in the 10-29 band because the word is a real, everyday trade and art category rather than a vanity or joke term, so steady low-level descriptive registrations are realistic over the next 5 years. Main market uncertainty: whether the trade-contractor side (the larger buyer pool) registers descriptive new-gTLD strings at all, or whether demand collapses to a thin hobbyist tail; by analogy, service-trade strings in the earlier round tended to register modestly and resell weakly. Aftermarket value is likely thin, with resale confined to a handful of generic one-word names. Registration counts, pricing tiers and first-year volume are unknown and are not asserted here.