.smb
Is .smb a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody has applied for .smb in its own right, as of 7 October 2026. Radix named .smb as the replacement string of its .hub application.
A label for "small business" that few businesses would want as their main web address; useful mostly for vendors selling to them.
vendors, lenders and software companies that market to small and medium businesses, plus a thin tail of small firms picking it up cheaply as a secondary address
No applications recorded for this TLD yet.
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 exactly: a generic self-descriptive label that any commercial entity could wear, sold on volume to the whole small-and-medium market rather than to a brand or community, with the only gap being that .smb is the vendor's acronym for that buyer while .business is the buyer's own plain word.
Another undifferentiated "we are a firm" classifier whose success depends on millions of small operators accepting a category word as identity, though a company actually calls itself a company whereas almost no small business calls itself an SMB.
The closest structural match in form — a clipped business-classification tag rather than a full noun — making the same bet that an abbreviation for "what kind of entity I am" is something a firm will put its primary identity on.
What a .smb domain is
.smb is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under Commerce. Nobody has applied for .smb in its own right. It is named on ICANN’s list as part of an application for another string.
Is the .smb domain extension real yet?
.smb is not yet a domain extension you can register: nothing resolves under it, and no registrar sells names in it. Nobody has applied for it on the public record; the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round is the process that would decide whether it becomes one.
When can you buy a .smb domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .smb name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .smb was .business, delegated on 22 August 2014.
Is .smb a real TLD?
Not yet. .smb is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because ICANN’s list names .smb as part of an application for another string. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- Radix · first recordedICANN
“RTIS2674T-T28113 · Radix Technologies Inc SEZC · replacement string of .hub”ICANN
“LFGL2683T-T90578 · Link Freedom Group Ltd · primary · contention set 2026-213 PTL2645T-T73740 · Pirin Tablet, LLC · primary · contention set 2026-213 RTIS2674T-T99763 · Radix Technologies Inc SEZC · replacement string of .robotics · Deactivated VIL2659T-T55269 · Verse International Limited · replacement string of .did · Deactivated”ICANN
“Radix has applied for these TLDs; we do not own or operate them today.”Radix
- Band chosen: 10-29 (vanity/joke/narrow), at its upper edge. The string reads as the trade abbreviation for small and medium businesses, a segment label rather than a category a project belongs to; a company registering under it is describing itself as small, which is a weak primary-identity signal for exactly the buyers the string names. The clearer use is on the vendor side: banks, payment processors, SaaS and insurers that sell to this segment could use it for campaign or product microsites, which is secondary-address demand rather than primary identity. The abbreviation is also overloaded (a widely used network file-sharing protocol carries the same letters), which muddies meaning outside business-marketing circles. By analogy (flagged as analogy): generic business-descriptor TLDs such as .biz and .business have historically gained registrations largely on price and defensive motives with little aftermarket, and that pattern sits in the band above; .smb is narrower and more self-deprecating than those, so it is not in the 30-49 band because sustained volume on price is uncertain rather than expected, and it is not in the 1-9 band because the vendor-marketing niche and registrar-channel distribution give it a realistic if shallow market. Applicant fact, stated neutrally from the record: the single application is from Radix, recorded as a replacement string whose primary application is .hub; a portfolio registry with registrar distribution tends, by analogy, to achieve wider registrar availability than a single-string operator, which supports adoption likelihood but not brand strength. Main market uncertainty: whether any large platform or financial brand that serves this segment adopts the string as a product namespace, or whether it remains an occasional campaign address with registrations measured in the low thousands (analogy; actual figures unknown).