.workspace
Is .workspace a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.workspace is not contested. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. It is Google.
A brand-style namespace for one company's productivity products; outsiders are unlikely to get addresses, so little open market.
the applicant's own product and customer surfaces (productivity-suite subdomains, customer tenants), not independent registrants; coworking operators and SaaS startups would want it but are unlikely to be able to register
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 generic common noun for the place where work gets done, open to any business or team that wants its work-place to be its primary identity, and it only works if buyers accept a place-noun instead of their own brand.
The same broad, undifferentiated activity-noun bet sold to anyone who works — agencies, freelancers, teams — where volume across every profession, not one vertical, is what has to be true.
The literal container half of the target and the same bet on a generic spatial noun that reads as a suffix ("our space"), though it is pitched at anyone wanting room on the web rather than specifically at people organizing work.
What a .workspace domain is
.workspace is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under Brand. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list.
Is the .workspace domain extension real yet?
.workspace 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 .workspace domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .workspace name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .workspace was .office, delegated on 23 June 2015.
Is .workspace a real TLD?
Not yet. .workspace is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .workspace is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- Google · first recordedICANN
“CRRI2564-T51741 · Charleston Road Registry Inc. · primary”ICANN
- Band chosen: 10-29 (vanity/narrow for the open market). The string is a meaningful, descriptive generic — productivity software, coworking, team collaboration — and if it were sold openly it would resemble .space or .work by analogy: registrations happen on price, the brand signal is weak, and the aftermarket is thin, which would place it in the 30-49 band. The one application on the record is typed 'brand' by ICANN (Google, via Charleston Road Registry Inc.), and from general knowledge the string coincides with the applicant's own productivity-suite product line, so the realistic adoption path is first-party product and customer surfaces rather than third-party registration; by analogy with other brand TLDs, there is no open aftermarket and no independent primary-identity use, which is why it sits below the 30-49 band. It is not in the 1-9 band because the string has genuine end-use utility for its operator (clean, memorable product addresses) and the word itself carries category meaning that an operator could extend to customer-facing namespaces over the next 5 years. Main market uncertainty: whether the operator keeps the TLD purely internal or opens customer- or partner-facing addresses (for example per-tenant names), which would create real end-use value for businesses even without a resale market; the latter would lift the score toward the 30-49 band.