.trainer
Is .trainer a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.trainer is not contested. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. It is Squarespace.
A job-title domain for personal and fitness trainers: usable for a solo practice, but .coach and .fitness suggest demand stays modest.
independent personal trainers, fitness and sports coaches, dog trainers and corporate/skills trainers who want a name that states their occupation, mostly solo practitioners and small studios
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 uncredentialed personal-service profession noun whose buyer is a sole practitioner putting their own professional identity on the string, so the registry is selling individual self-branding rather than a company or a category.
Also a body-work practitioner's occupational noun bought by independent one-person or small-clinic operators for their primary identity, differing only in that it carries a formal credential the target does not.
Another unlicensed individual-profession noun sold as a personal professional nameplate to people whose business is themselves, which is the same demand shape even though the trade is unrelated.
What a .trainer domain is
.trainer is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under Commerce. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list.
Is the .trainer domain extension real yet?
.trainer 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 .trainer domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .trainer name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .trainer was .coach, delegated on 26 November 2014.
Is .trainer a real TLD?
Not yet. .trainer is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .trainer is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- Squarespace · first recordedICANN
“SRL2616T-T78639 · Squarespace Registry LLC · primary”ICANN
“NA2631T-T60668 · Registry Services, LLC · primary SRL2616T-T16041 · Squarespace Registry LLC · replacement string of .goods · Deactivated XL2625T-T38044 · XYZ.COM LLC · replacement string of .mall · Deactivated”ICANN
- Band chosen: 30-49 (usable but limited). 'Trainer' is a real occupation label with a large, fragmented, price-sensitive buyer base (personal trainers, fitness and sports coaches, dog trainers, corporate trainers), so registrations can plausibly happen at volume if the string is distributed at a low price, and a solo practitioner could reasonably use name.trainer as a primary identity. It is not in the 50-69 band because the closest analogues (.coach, .fitness, .yoga; inference from analogy, no figures asserted) have not, in my qualitative read, become genuine primary-identity defaults in their category; most practitioners still default to .com or a social handle, and a job-title TLD needs explaining to clients. It is not in the 10-29 band because the demand is not event-driven or joke-like: it maps to a durable profession with ongoing new-business formation, and the string is short and self-describing. The brand signal is weak-to-neutral (it says what you do, not that you are credible) and the aftermarket would be thin, limited to a handful of generic words (personal.trainer, dog.trainer, fitness.trainer). On the record the sole applicant is Squarespace Registry LLC with a standard application and no contention; a single applicant with a direct channel to small businesses would raise adoption likelihood relative to a registry relying only on open registrar channels, but I assert nothing about the applicant beyond the record. A related Squarespace application for .therapy, listing .trainer as its primary, is recorded as deactivated; this does not change the string's market. Main market uncertainty: whether occupation-named TLDs convert at the moment a new trainer sets up a site, or whether that buyer keeps defaulting to .com and treats .trainer as a redirect or vanity add-on; the .coach/.fitness experience (analogy) leans toward the latter, which caps the score inside this band.