.task
Is .task a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody has applied for .task in its own right, as of 7 October 2026. Automattic named .task as the replacement string of its .soul application.
A plain productivity word that fits to-do and workflow tools, but it reads as a feature, not a brand, so demand stays thin.
productivity and workflow software makers (to-do, project, automation and agent tools), plus small agencies and freelancers wanting a job-shaped 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: an ultra-generic abstract English noun from the labour/productivity lexicon with no community or company that owns it, sold horizontally to anyone who wants their primary identity to read as what they do rather than who they are, and it only works if people accept a bare work-verb noun to the right of the dot.
Also a short generic work-organisation noun bought as a semantic slot by collaboration/workspace products and the groups using them, so the same registry gamble on the word being read as a unit of working rather than a brand, differing only in that it names the people doing the work instead of the thing being done.
The same bet on a plain noun from the software vocabulary becoming the default right-hand side for software products themselves, where the buyer is the tool-maker putting its product identity on the string and the thing that has to be true is that the word reads as a generic artefact rather than anyone's trademark.
What a .task domain is
.task is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under AI & tech. Nobody has applied for .task in its own right. It is named on ICANN’s list as part of an application for another string.
Is the .task domain extension real yet?
.task 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 .task domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .task name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .task was .work, delegated on 23 September 2014.
Is .task a real TLD?
Not yet. .task is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because ICANN’s list names .task as part of an application for another string. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- Automattic · first recordedICANN
“KKWT2621T-T35786 · Knock Knock WHOIS There, LLC · replacement string of .soul”ICANN
“KKWT2621T-T78272 · Knock Knock WHOIS There, LLC · replacement string of .craft · Deactivated LFGL2683T-T15033 · Link Freedom Group Ltd · primary · contention set 2026-81 RTIS2674T-T99384 · Radix Technologies Inc SEZC · replacement string of .mind · Deactivated VC2665T-T98880 · Vanity Check, LLC · primary · contention set 2026-81”ICANN
- Band chosen: 30-49, usable but limited. The string is a real, globally understood English word tied to a live software category (task and project management, automation and agent tooling), so some serious products could plausibly use a short .task address as a primary identity, and defensive registrations by productivity vendors are likely. It is not in the 50-69 band because "task" names a feature inside a product rather than a market or identity people rally around; a company is rarely "a task" the way it is a ".shop" or ".app", so adoption needs explaining and the aftermarket would likely be confined to a handful of dictionary-word second-level names. It is not in the 10-29 band because the word is neither a joke nor event-driven: it has steady, non-seasonal relevance and a clear buyer group. By analogy (flagged as analogy), work-adjacent generics such as .work and .jobs have tended to find registrations on price or defensive motives rather than becoming the default identity for their category, and .task looks narrower than those. The applicant on the record is Automattic, filing .task as a replacement string for its primary application for .soul, which suggests it may be a fallback rather than a first-choice launch; this is stated neutrally and bears only on how actively it might be marketed. Main market uncertainty: whether AI-agent and automation tooling makes "task" a more central word over the next 5 years than it is today, which could lift the string toward the strong-niche band.