.server
Is .server a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.server is contested: 2 applications for it are on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. They are XServer and Identity Digital.
A clear tech word hosting firms and self-hosters would use for a secondary address; few would make it their main brand.
hosting providers, self-hosting and homelab enthusiasts, game- and community-server operators, and dev tools that want an infrastructure-flavoured address
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 plain infrastructure-trade noun whose primary-identity buyers are hosting and infrastructure operators, where the registry's value rests on an industry adopting its own occupational word rather than on any consumer recognition.
Same bet in its machine-noun form — a single generic word for the box that serves the site, sold to the same infra/devops buyer who would put a company or service name on it, and with the same dual read (verb and hardware) that makes the string broad but technical.
Also a generic compute-infrastructure noun aimed at the same provider and developer buyers, but it bets on an abstract platform buzzword with wide marketing pull rather than on a concrete piece of hardware, so the same audience with a looser, trendier premise.
What a .server domain is
.server is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under Infrastructure. 2 applications for it are on ICANN’s Reveal Day list.
Is the .server domain extension real yet?
.server 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 .server domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .server name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .server was .hosting, delegated on 16 August 2014.
Is .server a real TLD?
Not yet. .server is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .server is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
“PTL2645T-T65821 · Pirin Tablet, LLC · primary · contention set 2026-209 XI2694T-T62176 · XRegistry Incorporated · primary · contention set 2026-209”ICANN
“PTL2645T-T34145 · Pirin Tablet, LLC · replacement string of .gpt PTL2645T-T49983 · Pirin Tablet, LLC · replacement string of .point PTL2645T-T89578 · Pirin Tablet, LLC · replacement string of .stay”ICANN
- Band chosen: 30-49 (usable but limited). .server is an immediately understood infrastructure noun, so registrations would happen without explanation and the string reads credibly on a hosting product, a status page, a homelab, or a game or community address. It is not in the 50-69 band because, by analogy to descriptive infrastructure strings such as .host, .hosting, .network and .systems, demand for this kind of word has tended to be secondary-address demand (product pages, redirects, hobby projects) rather than primary-identity demand, and the aftermarket for such strings has been thin; .cloud is the stronger analog, but its word carries a broader product-category meaning than 'server' does (inference from analogy). It is not in the 10-29 band because the word has sustained, non-event-driven relevance to a large professional and hobbyist population, and a hosting-oriented registry could plausibly distribute it through its own customer base. On the record there are two confirmed standard applications (Identity Digital and XServer) in one contention set; a portfolio registry and an applicant whose own name contains the string suggest both broad retail distribution and channel bundling are plausible paths, which supports the upper part of the band. Main market uncertainty: whether the gaming and community sense of 'server' (game servers, chat servers) produces real volume beyond the hosting vertical, or whether that audience keeps using free subdomains and invite links instead of paid domains. Figures for the analogous TLDs are unknown here; the comparisons are qualitative, by analogy.