.praxis
Is .praxis a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.praxis is not contested. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. It is index Internet und Mediaforschung GmbH.
A natural web address for German-speaking doctors, dentists and law practices, but most will keep their .de name and this stays a sideline.
German-speaking medical, dental, therapy and legal practices (a "Praxis") wanting a name that reads like their signage, plus agencies building sites for them
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 Greek-rooted abstract word for "practice" clipped into a short, coined-looking string, making the identical bet that professionals will adopt an erudite non-English term as their primary identity rather than a plain category noun.
A clipped professional-practice word with the same European (German/Commonwealth) flavour, sold to the same buyer — the individual licensed practice putting its whole identity on the name of what it practises.
Targets the same registrant, the professional practice as a place of business (the everyday German sense of Praxis), but bets on a plainly understood English category noun instead of an abstract term buyers must first decode.
What a .praxis domain is
.praxis is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under Commerce. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list.
Is the .praxis domain extension real yet?
.praxis 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 .praxis domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .praxis name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .praxis was .praxi, delegated on 18 July 2014.
Is .praxis a real TLD?
Not yet. .praxis is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .praxis is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- index Internet und Mediaforschung GmbH · first recordedICANN
“IIUM2696T-T97372 · index Internet und Mediaforschung GmbH · primary”ICANN
- Band chosen: 30-49, usable but limited. In German, "Praxis" is the everyday word for a doctor's, dentist's, physiotherapist's or lawyer's office, so a name like mueller.praxis reads as a complete, natural identity to a German-speaking patient or client; in English the word is a philosophy term with little commercial pull, so demand is effectively language-bound to Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The verified record shows a single standard application from index Internet und Mediaforschung GmbH, with .arzt recorded as a replacement string by the same applicant, which suggests the operator is aiming at the German health-practice vertical. Not in the band above (50-69): sustained primary-identity use would require German practices and their web agencies to move off an established .de name, and by analogy with existing professional-vertical TLDs such as .clinic, .dental and .doctor (analogy, not data), those strings mostly see secondary, defensive or redirect use rather than becoming the address on the door, with thin aftermarket resale. Not in the band below (10-29): unlike a vanity or joke string, there is a large, well-defined population of real businesses for whom the suffix is a literal description of what they are, and the two-level name is shorter and more readable than typical praxis-muellerstrasse.de constructions, so genuine primary use by new practices is plausible rather than fanciful. Main market uncertainty: whether German practitioners, who are conservative about their public identity and often bound by professional-marketing rules, will accept a non-.de address as their main name or treat it only as an add-on.