.tutor
Is .tutor a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody has applied for .tutor in its own right, as of 7 October 2026. Phoenix Domain Partners named .tutor as a backup string for its .chic application. ICANN deactivated it, because another applicant applied for the same string or named it as a backup. Innovation Service Limited named .tutor as a backup string for its .fix application. ICANN deactivated it, because another applicant applied for the same string or named it as a backup.
A clear, usable name for tutors and tutoring services, but a narrow market with weak resale value.
independent tutors, tutoring agencies and online tutoring platforms wanting a descriptive web address; secondarily test-prep and language-learning services
No applications recorded for this TLD yet.
Named on the ICANN gTLD application list, 7 October 2026 as a replacement (backup) string of the applicant's .fix 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 .chic 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 almost exactly: an open-entry, one-to-one instructional practitioner noun that an individual or small agency puts its primary identity on, so the registry is selling professional credibility to a long tail of solo service sellers rather than to brands or institutions.
Same shape of bet - a practitioner noun bought by sole operators and small practices selling a personal service by the session - but it rides on a licensed, credentialed trade, giving a narrower and better-defined buyer pool than an open-entry occupation.
The other 2012 attempt to sell an educator's own job title as identity, but the implied buyer is an academic attached to an institution rather than an independent seller of lessons, so demand has to come from personal pages instead of service businesses.
What a .tutor domain is
.tutor is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under Culture. Nobody has applied for .tutor in its own right. It is named on ICANN’s list as part of an application for another string.
Is the .tutor domain extension real yet?
.tutor 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 .tutor domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .tutor name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .tutor was .coach, delegated on 26 November 2014.
Is .tutor a real TLD?
Not yet. .tutor is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because ICANN’s list names .tutor as part of an application for another string. Every entry on this page links to its source.
“ISL2626T-T82788 · Innovation Service Limited · replacement string of .fix · Deactivated MLG2688T-T65329 · 101130013 Saskatchewan Ltd. · replacement string of .chic · Deactivated”ICANN
“ISL2626T-T51112 · Innovation Service Limited · replacement string of .donate”ICANN
“Phoenix Domain Partners published 13 strings for which it says it has applied and paid the application fees.”Domain Name Wire
- Band chosen: 30-49 (usable but limited). The string is a plain, globally understood occupation word, so a tutoring business can credibly use name.tutor as a primary identity without the name looking like a joke. By analogy (flagged as analogy), the existing education-themed new gTLDs such as .academy, .education, .school, .courses and .training have found real but modest registration volumes, mostly from small businesses buying on descriptiveness or price, with little aftermarket activity; .tutor is narrower than any of those, since it describes one service rather than a sector. It is not in the 50-69 band because there is no evidence, by analogy or on the record, of sustained demand large enough to make adoption self-explaining, and the aftermarket for occupation-word TLDs is thin. It is not in the 10-29 band because tutoring is a large, durable service market with many sole proprietors and agencies who want a website, and the word reads as a serious business descriptor rather than a vanity or event-driven term. Applicant facts on the record: two standard applications, both deactivated, each listing .tutor as a replacement string for a different primary string; the record shows zero confirmed applicants in contention; the TLD is scored as delegated per the rules. Main market uncertainty: whether tutors increasingly build their own web presence (favouring a descriptive TLD) or route almost entirely through marketplaces and platforms, which would suppress independent-site demand and leave the TLD to a handful of platform brands. Volume figures, prices, and comparable registration counts are unknown here.