.plaza
Is .plaza a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody has applied for .plaza in its own right, as of 7 October 2026. XYZ named .plaza as the replacement string of its .interiors application.
A pleasant word for malls, developments and Latin markets, but few serious projects would pick it as their main address.
shopping-centre and mixed-use property operators, hospitality and retail brands, and Spanish-speaking businesses where "plaza" means a square or marketplace
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 as .plaza stripped to its core — an unowned generic container-of-location noun that nobody's brand already claims, sold to whoever wants to say "here is a venue/spot," so it works only if a mass of small venue and listing operators find the word worth owning.
Both are generic nouns for a shared commercial venue rather than a single shop, pitched at the operator of the venue (and at anyone using the word metaphorically for an online one), so each lives or dies on whether "the place where sellers gather" reads as an address.
Another open, unowned civic-place noun whose primary-identity buyers are local hubs and neighborhood commerce, but it skews toward community/geography where .plaza skews toward retail property, making the buyer overlap partial.
What a .plaza domain is
.plaza is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under Commerce. Nobody has applied for .plaza in its own right. It is named on ICANN’s list as part of an application for another string.
Is the .plaza domain extension real yet?
.plaza 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 .plaza domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .plaza name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .plaza was .place, delegated on 2 July 2014.
Is .plaza a real TLD?
Not yet. .plaza is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because ICANN’s list names .plaza as part of an application for another string. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- XYZ · first recordedICANN
- Band chosen: 30-49, usable but limited. The string is a real, widely understood noun with two natural homes: physical commerce and real estate (shopping plazas, mixed-use developments, hotels and office complexes that already carry the word in their names) and Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking markets where plaza denotes a public square or marketplace, which gives it some geo and culture reach beyond English. It is not in the 50-69 band because there is no evident buyer group that would treat .plaza as a primary identity without explanation; a mall or developer is more likely to register it defensively or as a vanity redirect than to brand on it, and the aftermarket for comparable place-and-commerce generics has, by analogy, been thin. By analogy (flagged as such), delegated generics of the same shape - .center, .market, .place, .city, .store - have tended to register at volume on price, with weak brand signal and few notable primary-identity uses, which is the behaviour this band describes. It is not in the 10-29 band because the word is neither a joke nor a narrow event term; it carries ongoing commercial relevance, maps onto an existing naming habit for real properties, and has a plausible second life as a marketplace or community label in Spanish-speaking web use over the next five years. Applicant facts from the record: the sole application on the record is from XYZ.COM LLC as a replacement string for a primary application on .interiors; nothing on the record indicates a community, brand or geographic restriction, so general availability is assumed. Main market uncertainty: whether Spanish-speaking small businesses and online marketplaces adopt .plaza as a vernacular commerce label (which would lift it toward the niche band) or whether demand stays confined to defensive registrations by property owners (which would hold it near the bottom of this band). Registration counts, pricing, and comparable-TLD figures are unknown and not asserted.