.stjude
Is .stjude a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.stjude is not contested. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. It is ALSAC / St. Jude.
A closed brand TLD for one charity: useful to St. Jude for its own campaigns, but nobody else can buy or resell an address on it.
the applicant organization itself (ALSAC / St. Jude) for fundraising, patient and campaign addresses; no third-party buyer group exists
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 consumer-recognized charitable foundation putting its own coined brand name on a TLD so every donation, campaign and awareness page sits under an address that is itself the trust mark.
Also a named philanthropic institution claiming its own proper name rather than a category, but it is an endowed development network addressing its own constituency instead of a mass-market donor brand competing for small gifts.
Same buyer shape — a single large nonprofit with national household recognition betting its own name carries authority for a public audience — though as an acronym for a membership organization it monetizes members, not donors.
What a .stjude domain is
.stjude is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under Brand. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list.
Is the .stjude domain extension real yet?
.stjude 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 .stjude domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .stjude name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens.
Is .stjude a real TLD?
Not yet. .stjude is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .stjude is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- ALSAC / St. Jude · first recordedICANN
“ALSA2663T-T49987 · American Lebanese Syrian Associated Charities, Inc. · primary”ICANN
- Band chosen: 10-29 (vanity/narrow). The record shows a single confirmed application of ICANN type brand from ALSAC / St. Jude, which means a closed namespace where only the applicant registers names; there is no open market, no volume registrations and no aftermarket by design. Reasoning from analogy to earlier dot-brand delegations: a minority of brand owners use their TLD as a visible primary identity (short campaign or redirect addresses), while many hold it defensively or let it lapse, and the end-use value depends entirely on the owner's own marketing choices rather than any market. St. Jude is a widely recognized charity brand, so addresses like a donation or campaign name under .stjude could plausibly serve as serious primary identities for the owner over the next 5 years, which keeps it above the 1-9 band (there is one real, motivated user with a strong brand). It is not in the 30-49 band because that band assumes registrations happening at volume or on price and at least a thin aftermarket; a closed brand TLD has neither. Main market uncertainty: whether the owner will actually route public-facing fundraising traffic through .stjude addresses or keep its existing .org identity as primary and use the TLD only defensively.