.québec
Is .québec a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.québec is not contested. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. It is PointQuébec Inc.
An accented twin of a regional web address: meaningful to Quebec identity, but most people will keep typing the plain version.
quebec businesses, institutions and cultural projects that want a French-spelled identity, mostly as a defensive or brand-pride registration alongside an ASCII address
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.
It is the identical bet in ASCII dress — a sub-national government/territorial brand asserting its own place name as the namespace its public bodies, businesses and residents put their primary identity on.
Same bet of registering a place name in the script/orthography its own population actually writes it in, betting that local-language rendering is the authentic civic identity rather than the ASCII transliteration.
Also a geo string whose value rests on a distinct linguistic-cultural community adopting it as a marker of belonging rather than on raw commercial demand, though it leans on an abbreviation and a stateless region rather than an accented official name backed by a provincial government.
What a .québec domain is
.québec is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under Places. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list.
Is the .québec domain extension real yet?
.québec 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 .québec domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .québec name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .québec was .quebec, delegated on 16 April 2014.
Is .québec a real TLD?
Not yet. .québec is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .québec is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- PointQuébec Inc · first recordedICANN
- Band chosen: 10-29 (vanity/narrow), near its top. .québec is the IDN (accented) form of a provincial geographic name, applied for by PointQuébec Inc as a geographic IDN string per the verified-facts block. By analogy (flagged as analogy), IDN twins of Latin-script geographic or country strings have tended to see far lower uptake than their ASCII counterparts, because accented characters in addresses still face uneven support in email systems, forms, browsers and search tooling, and because registrants typically treat the accented form as a defensive add-on rather than a primary identity. Quebec has a strong francophone identity culture and institutions that favour correct French spelling, which gives this string more emotional pull than a typical IDN twin, and some public bodies and cultural projects could plausibly use it as a visible primary identity. That is why it is not in the 1-9 band. It is not in the 30-49 band because volume registrations and any aftermarket would, by analogy, concentrate on the plain-ASCII regional address, leaving the accented form with thin resale value and rare primary-identity use over the next 5 years. Registration counts, pricing and outcomes for the ASCII sibling are unknown here. Main market uncertainty: whether universal-acceptance support for accented addresses improves enough in mainstream email and web platforms within 5 years that Quebec organisations adopt the French-spelled form as their main address rather than a mirror.