.railway
Is .railway a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.railway is not contested. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. It is Railway Corporation.
A brand-type application: addresses would serve the applicant's own sites, not an open market, so resale value is near nil.
the applicant's own products and services, with rail operators and rail-industry suppliers as the only plausible open-market buyers if registration were ever opened
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 mode of ground transport as a plain generic noun, where the natural registrants are the operators and service businesses that run that mode rather than consumers shopping in a category.
Also a transport mode that doubles as an industry label, and it shares the hard part of the bet — a small number of large operators who already have strong .com identities, with agencies and enthusiasts as the only volume tail.
A vehicle/mode category noun whose primary identity holders are the trade and hobby ecosystem around it (dealers, parts, clubs, publications) rather than the vehicle's buyer, which is the same registrant shape a rail string depends on.
What a .railway domain is
.railway is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under Brand. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list.
Is the .railway domain extension real yet?
.railway 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 .railway domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .railway name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .railway was .taxi, delegated on 7 May 2015.
Is .railway a real TLD?
Not yet. .railway is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .railway is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- Railway Corporation · first recordedICANN
- Band chosen: 10-29 (vanity/narrow). The verified facts record a single confirmed application from Railway Corporation with ICANN application type brand; no category tag is recorded. Under a brand-type application the registry is the sole registrant, so there is no aftermarket and no third-party primary-identity use within the next 5 years; the address's value is confined to whatever the applicant builds on it. By analogy (flagged as analogy), brand TLDs from the 2012 round were mostly used for a handful of internal or marketing names, with a minority adopting the TLD as a primary identity and a notable share later retired; that pattern places the string below the 30-49 band, which requires registrations at volume or on price. It sits above the 1-9 band because the string is a plain English industry word with a coherent constituency (rail operators, rolling-stock and signalling suppliers, rail enthusiasts) and a dictionary word gives the applicant a memorable, self-explanatory identity; if the applicant uses it as its main web identity, the TLD has genuine end-use utility for that one buyer. Who the applicant is in the market and what it intends to run on the TLD is unknown from the facts block. Main market uncertainty: whether any registrations would be opened to third parties over the next 5 years, and if so whether rail-industry incumbents, who mostly already hold established .com and country-code identities, would see a reason to move; by analogy with other industry-word TLDs from the 2012 round, demand from established operators tends to be thin and adoption needs explaining even when the TLD is open.