.roofing
Is .roofing a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.roofing is contested: 2 applications for it are on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. They are XYZ and Identity Digital.
A clear trade keyword for roofers, but most contractors still default to .com, so demand stays small and resale value thin.
roofing contractors, roofing-supply firms, and lead-generation or software businesses serving the roofing trade
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.
Identical bet: a single licensed building-trade activity noun whose primary-identity buyer is the small local contractor, so the string only works if thousands of independent trade shops can be sold a replacement for their .com.
Same bet one level up the trade stack: an unowned activity noun for the building industry sold to contractors and suppliers, winning or losing on the same assumption that trade firms will re-identify under a category word.
Same buyer and same category-of-work bet, but framed as the practitioner plural rather than the trade activity, so it competes for the identity of the firm rather than naming the service it sells.
What a .roofing domain is
.roofing is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under Commerce. 2 applications for it are on ICANN’s Reveal Day list.
Is the .roofing domain extension real yet?
.roofing 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 .roofing domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .roofing name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .roofing was .plumbing, delegated on 14 November 2013.
Is .roofing a real TLD?
Not yet. .roofing is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .roofing is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
“PTL2645T-T57902 · Pirin Tablet, LLC · primary · contention set 2026-205 XL2625T-T95614 · XYZ.COM LLC · primary · contention set 2026-205”ICANN
“SS2654T-T57273 · Hair Apparent, LLC · primary XL2625T-T76256 · XYZ.COM LLC · replacement string of .expo · Deactivated”ICANN
- Band chosen: usable but limited (30-49). The string is a plain, unambiguous trade keyword with a large, fragmented population of small local businesses and a steady flow of new contractor formations, so registrations happen on a sustained basis and a name like smithfamily.roofing is a plausible primary identity for a local firm. It is not in the strong-niche band (50-69) because, by analogy with other trade-vertical TLDs in the same descriptive family (.plumbing, .contractors, .construction, .builders), adoption in this segment has tended to be low-volume, often as a secondary or SEO-style address alongside a .com, and the aftermarket for such names is thin; this is an inference from analogy, and I hold no verified figures on registrations or renewals. It is not in the vanity/joke band (10-29) because the demand is real, durable, and commercially motivated rather than event-driven, and there is genuine, if rare, primary-identity use. The record shows two confirmed standard applications in the 2026 round, from Identity Digital and XYZ, in contention set 2026-205, with .recovery (XYZ) and .water (Identity Digital) naming this string as their primary; two portfolio operators pursuing the string suggests they expect sustained registrar-channel demand, which modestly supports the upper half of the band. Main market uncertainty over the next 5 years: whether local-service buyers come to treat keyword TLDs as credible primary identities, or whether lead-gen aggregators and .com habit keep the string as a defensive or SEO add-on.