.share
Is .share a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.share is contested: 2 applicants have said publicly that they applied to run it, as of 16 August 2026. They are Suffix Inc. and Link Freedom Group.
A friendly generic word good for links you pass around, but few serious projects would make .share their main address.
sharing-economy startups, referral and affiliate programs, file-transfer and link-shortening tools, and social or community projects that want a call-to-action address for content people pass along.
In LFG's published list of 300+ strings submitted before the ICANN window closed on 2026-08-12. Their catalog tagline: “Spread the word, share the news.”
Listed in Suffix Inc.'s public catalog at suffix.domains. No first-party application statement is on the record yet; every string in the catalog overlaps Link Freedom Group's published list.
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 short, everyday English action-verb for moving files and content between people, sold as an open generic whose registrants' product literally is that verb, so it lives or dies on call-to-action usage rather than on any vertical.
Same bet: a plain consumer verb-noun naming an interpersonal action, aimed at collaboration and social startups putting their primary identity on the thing users do, valuable only because the word is universally understood and unowned by an incumbent.
Same shape of bet — a generic, verb-ish utility word for passing something along, attractive as a short URL/CTA namespace — but it skews to technical link-shortening infrastructure rather than the social and sharing-economy connotations that carry .share.
What a .share domain is
.share is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under Commerce. 2 applicants have said publicly that they applied for .share.
Is the .share domain extension real yet?
.share 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 .share domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .share name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .share was .download, delegated on .
Is .share a real TLD?
Not yet. .share is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because an applicant said publicly that it applied for .share in the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round. Every claim on this page links to its source.
- Suffix Inc. · now announced
- Suffix Inc. · first recordedSuffix Inc.
- Link Freedom Group · first recordedLink Freedom Group
“Catalog lists: .asap .create .future .lfg .mvp .out .pal .planet .research .share .tag .this .visit”Suffix Inc.
“.share · Commerce · “Spread the word, share the news.””Link Freedom Group
“LFG voluntarily published its full list of submissions ahead of ICANN’s official Reveal Day.”PR Newswire (Link Freedom Group)
“Top level domain registry Link Freedom Group (LFG) has disclosed more than 300 strings submitted as part of the ICANN new top level domain name program.”Domain Name Wire (Andrew Allemann)
- Band 30-49 (usable but limited). The string is a common English verb with warm connotations and obvious call-to-action semantics: acme.share as a referral or content link reads naturally, and the applicant's own catalog positions it as Commerce with a spread-the-word framing. But verb TLDs of this shape have, by analogy, tended to become secondary utility namespaces rather than primary identities: strings like .link and .click (analogy, outcomes here unknown in specifics) see volume driven by price and redirect use, with weak brand signal and a thin aftermarket concentrated in a handful of dictionary-word SLDs. It is not in the 50-69 band because there is no single category where .share is plausibly the default primary identity in the next 5 years; sharing-economy and file-transfer companies overwhelmingly brand on legacy TLDs by analogy with prior new-gTLD adoption patterns, and the string describes an action, not a durable identity. It is above the 10-29 band because demand is not merely event-driven or joke-driven: the call-to-action use case (referral links, share pages, campaign URLs) is a real, repeatable commercial need that can sustain steady registrations and some end-use, similar to how action-word TLDs have found genuine secondary-domain utility. Applicant facts are neutral context: LFG filed more than 300 strings in the 2026 round, the largest applicant, which suggests a portfolio play where per-string marketing investment may be spread thin, tempering adoption expectations. Main market uncertainty: whether any major consumer platform or link-infrastructure product adopts .share for user-facing share URLs, which would convert it from a utility namespace into a recognized convention and could lift it a full band.