.pharma

Is .pharma a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?

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applicants
  • RadixAnnounced
on the record since Aug 27, 2026 · updated Aug 27, 2026
AI score
35/ 100
Usable but limited

A real industry word, but trust-wary drug companies stick to established domains; expect modest, largely defensive registrations.

assessed by claude-fable-5 · Aug 27, 2026
AI score 35 of 100. .com scores 96, .ai scores 84.
who it’s for

pharmaceutical and life-sciences companies, B2B suppliers, CROs, pharma-tech startups, recruiters and industry media wanting an industry-labeled address; large drug brands mostly as defensive registrants

OtherCommercetech
applicants
1 on file
RadixAnnounced
Aug 27, 2026

One of 46 ICANN 2026-round applications Radix announced on its own applications page. Radix states it intends to build and operate each TLD it wins.

closest 2012 bets
3 of 1,408

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.

.pharmacystrong parallel
delegated 2014 · live

Same bet in the same regulated vertical: a sector-category noun whose whole value is being a gated, eligibility-verified namespace where a licensed incumbent moves its primary identity for the trust signal, not a volume registration play.

uncontested · scored 55* in 2012 · run by National Association of Boards of Pharmacy

.bankmoderate
delegated 2015 · live

The canonical restricted-industry noun bet — a small, high-value, verified registrant base of regulated corporations buying legitimacy and anti-counterfeit assurance rather than cheap available inventory, which is exactly the economics .pharma has to run on.

2 applicants contested it · scored 82* in 2012 · run by fTLD Registry Services LLC

.medmoderate
delegated 2015 · live

Also an industry shorthand rather than a full entity noun, sitting in the same healthcare-adjacent gray zone where the operator must decide between a professional-eligibility gate and an open generic, with the same ambiguity about whether anyone treats the abbreviation as their primary identity.

4 applicants contested it · scored 50* in 2012 · run by Medistry LLC

* A separate 2012-only read, time-locked to what was public that year. Different scale from this page’s score — the two are not comparable.

history
  1. Radix · first recordedAug 27, 2026
    Radix
news & sources
AnnouncementRadix: our ICANN 2026 round applications
Aug 27, 2026
Radix has applied for these TLDs; we do not own or operate them today.
Radix
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