.union
Is .union a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody has applied for .union in its own right, as of 7 October 2026. XYZ named .union as the replacement string of its .universe application.
A clear word for labor, credit and student unions, but those groups are settled on .org and rarely need a new address.
labor and trade unions, credit unions, student unions and worker-organizing projects wanting a self-describing address; secondarily businesses with "union" in the name
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: a bare generic noun naming an organizational form, sold to the member-governed, non-commercial bodies that already call themselves that, so every registrant IS the category rather than selling into it.
Same sector-identity bet — a whole class of collective, non-corporate organizations adopting one string as its primary badge with eligibility implied — but the string is an acronym rather than the sector's own plain English word.
Also a member-owned-organization category word that a defined, regulated constituency would put its primary identity on, but narrowed to one financial institution type instead of a broad bare noun open to many kinds of unions.
What a .union domain is
.union 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 .union in its own right. It is named on ICANN’s list as part of an application for another string.
Is the .union domain extension real yet?
.union 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 .union domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .union name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .union was .foundation, delegated on 11 February 2014.
Is .union a real TLD?
Not yet. .union is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because ICANN’s list names .union as part of an application for another string. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- XYZ · first recordedICANN
- Band chosen: 30-49 (usable but limited). The string is a common English noun with a well-defined buyer group (labor unions, credit unions, student unions, cooperatives and organizing campaigns) plus a secondary pool of businesses that carry "union" as a brand word, so registrations at volume or on price are plausible and the meaning needs no explanation. It is not in the 50-69 band because the natural buyers already have an entrenched, trusted default in .org (and credit unions have their own settled naming habits), so sustained primary-identity use over the next 5 years would need a reason to switch that the string alone does not supply; the brand signal is modest and an aftermarket is likely to be thin outside a handful of generic left-of-dot words. It is not in the 10-29 band because demand is not event-driven or joke-based: unions, credit unions and organizing campaigns are durable institutions with ongoing web presence, and "x.union" reads as a serious identity rather than a novelty. By analogy (flagged as analogy), the sector-specific sponsored TLD .coop suggests that a well-fitted word for an organized sector tends to produce a small, loyal, low-volume base rather than a category standard, and that is the likeliest trajectory here. The record shows a single standard (not community) application from XYZ.COM LLC, filed as a replacement string for .universe; a standard application points to an open registration model, which widens the buyer pool but weakens the credibility signal a verified union-only namespace would carry. Main market uncertainty: whether any national union federation, credit-union body or organizing platform adopts .union as a primary identity and pulls affiliates with it, versus the string being sold mainly as a generic word to unrelated brands.