.squad
Is .squad a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody has applied for .squad in its own right, as of 7 October 2026. Radix named .squad as the replacement string of its .collective application.
A fun, youth-flavored word for gaming teams, friend groups and creator crews; usable, but rarely a serious project's main address.
gaming and esports teams, creator collectives, fitness and hobby groups, and youth-oriented community brands that want a playful group identity
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 almost exactly: an informal generic collective noun that a small self-organized group of people puts its own shared identity on, sold broadly to whoever calls themselves one rather than to any institution or category of commerce.
Also a collective noun for a small named group registering its own group identity, but the bet is narrowed to one vertical (music acts) where .squad's buyer is any affinity group, so the mechanics match while the addressable set does not.
Same membership-identity bet — a word for a voluntary group of people that the group itself claims as its primary name — though it carries a formal, institutional connotation (dues, premises, chapters) rather than the informal peer-group framing .squad depends on.
What a .squad domain is
.squad is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under Culture. Nobody has applied for .squad in its own right. It is named on ICANN’s list as part of an application for another string.
Is the .squad domain extension real yet?
.squad 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 .squad domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .squad name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .squad was .team, delegated on 16 April 2015.
Is .squad a real TLD?
Not yet. .squad is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because ICANN’s list names .squad as part of an application for another string. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- Radix · first recordedICANN
“RTIS2674T-T63817 · Radix Technologies Inc SEZC · replacement string of .collective”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: 30-49 (usable but limited). 'Squad' is a broad, instantly understood group word with real currency in gaming ('squad up'), esports, fitness classes, creator collectives and youth marketing, so it can plausibly draw registrations at volume and on price over the next 5 years, and a few teams or community brands could wear it as a primary identity. It is not in the 50-69 band because the demand is largely casual and promotional rather than sustained primary-identity use: a serious company or product would rarely choose a .squad address over a .com, .io or .gg equivalent, and adoption still needs explaining to anyone outside gaming or social contexts, giving a weak brand signal and a thin aftermarket. It is not in the 10-29 band because, unlike a joke or single-event string, the word is generic across several living categories (gaming, sport, community, marketing) and keeps showing up in product and team naming, which supports steady low-price demand rather than a one-off spike. By analogy (flagged as analogy), existing group-themed strings such as .team, .club and .group have found real but price-driven, volume-oriented registration demand with limited resale strength, and gaming team identity has tended to cluster on .gg, which caps how much of the esports audience a new group word can capture. The application on record is from Radix, a standard (non-brand) application entered as the replacement string for its .collective application; a registry with a portfolio of generic strings makes broad retail distribution more likely, which supports volume adoption but does not by itself raise brand or aftermarket value. Main market uncertainty: whether gaming and creator communities treat .squad as a genuine team-identity namespace with year-two renewals, or whether registrations stay mostly first-year promotional vanity that lapses.