.welcome
Is .welcome a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody has applied for .welcome in its own right, as of 7 October 2026. Cam Connecting SARL named .welcome as the replacement string of its .connect application.
A friendly greeting word that works for landing and onboarding pages, but few projects would make it their main address.
hospitality and tourism operators, brands wanting a memorable onboarding or landing address, and hobbyist registrants drawn to a warm phrase
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 as .welcome: a warm everyday English word that names a sentiment rather than a category, so no industry or community can claim it as its own name and the registry is betting on expressive, gesture-style registrations across every vertical.
Also a friendly human gesture-word with no owning trade, bought as a tone of voice for greeting or goodwill pages rather than as the place where a business puts its primary identity.
Shares the invitation/hospitality speech-act job — a string you put in front of guests rather than one that describes a product — but it is an acronym locked to events, where .welcome is an open-ended greeting with no single use case.
What a .welcome domain is
.welcome is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under Commerce. Nobody has applied for .welcome in its own right. It is named on ICANN’s list as part of an application for another string.
Is the .welcome domain extension real yet?
.welcome 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 .welcome domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .welcome name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .welcome was .love, delegated on 2 April 2015.
Is .welcome a real TLD?
Not yet. .welcome is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because ICANN’s list names .welcome as part of an application for another string. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- Cam Connecting SARL · first recordedICANN
“CCS2640T-T56644 · Cam Connecting SARL · replacement string of .connect”ICANN
“CCS2640T-T64563 · Cam Connecting SARL · replacement string of .official · Deactivated SL2649T-T20948 · Sockeye LLC · replacement string of .alum · Deactivated SRL2616T-T75748 · Squarespace Registry LLC · primary”ICANN
- Band chosen: 10-29 (vanity/narrow). The string is a greeting rather than a category or place, so it signals a tone, not what a site is or does. The most plausible end-use is secondary: a hotel, resort, tourism board or consumer brand pointing a short .welcome address at an arrival or onboarding page while its primary identity stays on an established TLD. By analogy (flagged as analogy), greeting- and phrase-style TLDs such as .hello, .thanks and .love have tended to produce small registration bases with little aftermarket, with demand driven by novelty and occasional promotions rather than sustained primary-identity use; I expect .welcome to behave similarly over the next 5 years. It is not in the 30-49 band because there is no evident volume driver (no price-led mass channel, no category anchor) that would make registrations happen at scale, and not in the 1-9 band because the hospitality and onboarding use case is real and the word is universally understood and pleasant, giving it a genuine if shallow market. On the record there is one application, from Cam Connecting SARL, filed as a standard application and as a replacement string whose primary string is .connect, with a contention count of 0; this is stated neutrally and bears only on how much focus the string may receive at launch, not on the string's market. Main market uncertainty: whether any sizable hospitality or tourism players adopt .welcome addresses as a recognizable convention for guest-facing pages, which would lift it toward the usable-but-limited band.