.verein
Is .verein a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.verein is not contested. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. It is tldbox GmbH.
A clear German word for "club/association" with real users, but German clubs already live on .de and .org, so it stays a budget add-on.
small German-speaking clubs, sports teams and registered associations (Vereine) wanting a self-explanatory web address, plus club-management and hosting providers bundling sites for them
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 German-language legal-entity-form word whose addressable market is every entity that already carries that form in its registered name, betting such entities will move their primary identity onto the suffix they are legally defined by.
Same bet on organizational type rather than industry — a non-commercial membership/mission entity putting its identity on what it IS organizationally — though it is a verified international acronym rather than one language's own word for the form.
The open-market version of the same bet: a generic noun for a membership body that groups would adopt as identity, but it leans on broad commercial/vanity demand instead of a defined registry of entities legally named for the form.
What a .verein domain is
.verein 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 .verein domain extension real yet?
.verein 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 .verein domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .verein name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .verein was .gmbh, delegated on 9 March 2016.
Is .verein a real TLD?
Not yet. .verein is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .verein is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- tldbox GmbH · first recordedICANN
- Band chosen: 30-49, usable but limited. The string is the exact everyday German word for an association or club, and the German-speaking countries have a very large population of amateur sports clubs, hobby societies and registered associations, so the semantic fit with a real buyer group is strong, which keeps it out of the 10-29 vanity band: registrations would plausibly happen at volume if priced low and sold through the hosting packages those clubs already buy. It does not reach 50-69 because German clubs have an entrenched default identity on .de (often with 'ev' or the town name in the label) and, to a lesser extent, .org; a .verein address would need explaining to members and sponsors, and the aftermarket for a single-language, non-commercial-sector TLD is thin by analogy. Analogies, flagged as such: the German-language generics from the earlier round (.gmbh, .reise, .versicherung, .immobilien, .jetzt) mostly settled into small or modest registration bases with little resale value, with .gmbh the strongest because it maps to a legal form; .club, the closest English analogue, reached volume mainly on promotional pricing and showed high churn rather than becoming a primary-identity standard. Applicant facts, stated neutrally from the record: one confirmed standard application by tldbox GmbH, no contention on the record, and the same applicant has a .noe application recorded as a replacement naming this string as primary; a single uncontested applicant with a German-market focus makes a German-channel launch plausible but says nothing about pricing or distribution. Main market uncertainty: whether the large DACH hosting and club-software providers bundle .verein into their club-website offers; without that channel the TLD is a trickle of individually chosen registrations, with it the TLD could become the accepted second-choice address for clubs whose .de name is taken. Specific registration counts, prices and the number of Vereine in Germany are unknown here and deliberately not stated.