.temple
Is .temple a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.temple is not contested. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. It is Temple Private Limited.
Applied as a brand; even if open, .temple is a narrow religious niche where most temples would likely keep their existing address.
the applicant for its own naming first; otherwise religious institutions, temple-themed venues and brands wanting a descriptive address
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: a generic place-of-worship noun whose buyers are individual congregations and religious institutions putting their primary identity on it, which only works if enough of those institutions will move their address off .org to a sectarian label.
Also a religion-wide generic aimed at the same devotional buyer, but it is an abstract concept noun rather than the name of an institution's building, so it can be sold to anyone with a cause rather than to a specific institutional registrant.
Structurally the identical bet in a different sector: a generic institution-building noun where each individual institution is expected to put its primary identity on the string, with the same dependency on a conservative, slow-moving institutional category changing its address.
What a .temple domain is
.temple 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 .temple domain extension real yet?
.temple 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 .temple domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .temple name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .temple was .church, delegated on 15 May 2014.
Is .temple a real TLD?
Not yet. .temple is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .temple is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- Temple Private Limited · first recordedICANN
- Band chosen: 10-29 (vanity/narrow). The verified-facts block shows one application, by Temple Private Limited, recorded as ICANN application type brand, with no category tag; this points to a TLD operated for the applicant's own naming rather than a general-registration namespace, which lowers the likelihood of broad third-party adoption. Judged as a string in market, .temple is a dictionary word with real but narrow meaning: places of worship across several faiths, plus incidental brand, surname and place-name uses. By analogy (flagged as analogy), faith-themed TLDs such as .church and .faith have found modest, sustained but shallow demand, with most congregations and institutions keeping established .org or country-code addresses rather than adopting a themed TLD as primary identity; a string narrower than .church would plausibly land below that. It is not in the 30-49 band because registrations at volume or on price are unlikely to materialise for a brand-typed application, and the string carries little brand signal outside religious use. It is not in the 1-9 band because the word is meaningful, memorable and could serve a cluster of temple-related sites, institutions or a temple-named brand as a legitimate primary identity if offered. Main market uncertainty: whether any registrations beyond the applicant's own use would be offered at all, and if so whether religious institutions in large temple-rich markets would treat a descriptive address as worth migrating to over the next 5 years.