.slides
Is .slides a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.slides is contested: 2 applications for it are on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. They are Intercap and Google.
A niche address for sharing presentations; handy as a deck link, rarely the name a company or product builds on.
presentation-software vendors, speakers, consultants and pitch-sharing startups who want a short link to a deck rather than a primary brand
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 plural generic noun naming a unit of workaday business content, whose natural primary registrant is the software or hosting service that produces and shares that content type, with everyone else arriving as a file-publishing user rather than a brand owner.
Same shape of bet -- a plural generic noun for a content artifact that people publish and link to -- but it rides a far broader consumer and professional base, so it needs much less of a single platform's gravity to work than a workplace-artifact string does.
Also a bet that a format name becomes the address for the thing itself, with a publishing platform as the obvious anchor tenant, though it names an ongoing medium rather than a discrete file and so leans on authorship identity instead of document hosting.
What a .slides domain is
.slides is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under AI & tech. 2 applications for it are on ICANN’s Reveal Day list.
Is the .slides domain extension real yet?
.slides 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 .slides domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .slides name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .slides was .docs, delegated on 18 December 2014.
Is .slides a real TLD?
Not yet. .slides is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .slides is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
“CRRI2564-T30121 · Charleston Road Registry Inc. · primary · contention set 2026-215 IRI2679T-T83038 · Intercap Registry Inc. · primary · contention set 2026-215”ICANN
“EDI2665T-T28371 · Endpoint Domains, Inc. · primary IRI2679T-T96997 · Intercap Registry Inc. · replacement string of .wiz · Deactivated NA2626T-T63059 · ShortDot (Ireland) Limited · replacement string of .ask · Deactivated XL2625T-T48604 · XYZ.COM LLC · replacement string of .con · Deactivated”ICANN
- Band chosen: 10-29 (vanity/narrow), at its top. The string names a single document type, so its natural use is as a link to a deck (a talk, a pitch, a course module) rather than as the identity of a project; demand is event-driven and shallow, which is the defining trait of this band. It is not in the 30-49 band because, by analogy with other single-object nouns such as .photos or .pics (analogy, outcomes not asserted here), such strings tend to draw registrations only when priced low and do not develop a brand signal or an aftermarket, and .slides is narrower still than those. It is not in the 1-9 band because there is a genuine, if small, utility: a memorable share URL for a presentation, and presentation-tool vendors could plausibly use second-level names on it as a sharing namespace. On the record there are 2 applications in contention set 2026-215: Google (Charleston Road Registry Inc., brand type) and Intercap (standard type); Intercap also has .present recorded as a replacement string naming this one as primary. Stated neutrally, a brand-type application alongside a standard one means the operating model if delegated could differ markedly; since the rubric assumes general availability, I score the open-registration case. Main market uncertainty: whether any presentation platform adopts .slides as its canonical public deck-link namespace, which would make it a functional utility TLD (lifting it into the 30-49 band) versus a vanity string a few speakers register once.