.teach
Is .teach a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.teach is not contested. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. It is Google. Squarespace named .teach as a backup string for its .class application. ICANN deactivated it, because another applicant applied for the same string or named it as a backup. Intercap named .teach as a backup string for its .say application. ICANN deactivated it, because another applicant applied for the same string or named it as a backup.
A clear education word that tutors and course makers may use, but education TLDs so far have stayed small and need explaining.
independent tutors, course creators, edtech startups and teacher-facing brands who want a verb-led address like learn-to-code.teach or a personal teaching site
Named on the ICANN gTLD application list, 7 October 2026 as a replacement (backup) string of the applicant's .say application, shown as deactivated: another applicant applied for the same string or named it as a backup
Named on the ICANN gTLD application list, 7 October 2026 as a replacement (backup) string of the applicant's .class application, shown as deactivated: another applicant applied for the same string or named it as a backup
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 as .teach: a bare education verb opened as a generic keyword that no applicant can claim as its own identity, so it works only if a large, diffuse pool of tutors, course-sellers and edtech outfits will put primary identity on an action word instead of an institution name.
Also an open generic naming the act of instruction rather than an institution, courting the same provider-side buyer (anyone who delivers teaching commercially) and needing the same thing to be true: that instruction providers prefer a descriptive activity word to their own brand on .com.
The same undifferentiated education-sector generic sold to the same mixed pool of schools, edtech and individual educators, but it is the sector's umbrella category noun rather than the act one person performs, so it reads institutional where .teach reads personal.
What a .teach domain is
.teach is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under Culture. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list.
Is the .teach domain extension real yet?
.teach 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 .teach domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .teach name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .teach was .study, delegated on 25 February 2015.
Is .teach a real TLD?
Not yet. .teach is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .teach is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
“CRRI2564-T57398 · Charleston Road Registry Inc. · primary IRI2679T-T56656 · Intercap Registry Inc. · replacement string of .say · Deactivated SRL2616T-T28234 · Squarespace Registry LLC · replacement string of .class · Deactivated”ICANN
“CRRI2564-T57398 · Charleston Road Registry Inc. · primary”ICANN
- Band chosen: 30-49 (usable but limited). .teach is a plain English verb with an obvious meaning and a large, real buyer group (tutors, online-course creators, edtech products, teacher communities), so it is not vanity or joke territory (10-29): a serious teaching project could plausibly use it as a primary identity. It is not a strong niche TLD (50-69) because, by analogy, existing education-flavoured new gTLDs such as .education, .academy, .school and .training have registered at modest volume and mostly on promotional pricing, with little primary-identity use by notable institutions and thin aftermarkets; the sector's prestige address remains the restricted .edu, and most commercial edtech brands still default to .com or .co. Verb strings (analogy: .work, .watch, .build) have tended to attract registrations without building a strong brand signal. Applicant facts, stated neutrally from the record: the confirmed applicant is Google (Charleston Road Registry Inc.), with a standard application; two other applications (Intercap, Squarespace) are deactivated and were replacement strings for .say and .class respectively, and the contention count on the record is 1. An operator with large registrar distribution and its own product surfaces could lift adoption above the .education analogues, which is why the score sits in the upper half of the band rather than the bottom. Main market uncertainty: whether course-creator and tutoring platforms would adopt .teach as the address they promote to their creators, which would turn a generic word into a recognisable category label, versus it remaining an occasional vanity or redirect choice.