.zoom
Is .zoom a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.zoom is not contested. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. It is Zoom. Link Freedom Group named .zoom as a backup string for its .order application. ICANN deactivated it, because another applicant applied for the same string or named it as a backup.
Who is applying, and what they run today
None of the 2 is tied to a registry that runs TLDs today. Link Freedom Group filed 158 applications across the round.
Will names sell?
A catchy speed-and-motion word, but a famous video-call brand owns the association, so few serious projects would build on it.
Last round the AI scored the 2012 strings blind to their fate. Strings it scored 60 or more hold a median 27,168 names today; those under 30, a median of 30. .zoom’s closest 2012 strings hold .box 3K.
The nearest 2012 strings, and how many names each holds today
The closest 2012 string, .box, held 2,752 names, June 2026. .amazon held 253; .skype held 7. Chosen by AI from every string in the 2012 round, without being told what happened to any of them.
Same bet almost exactly: a single mid-size US tech company whose corporate name is an ordinary one-syllable English noun applies for that noun as its own namespace, wagering that its brand meaning now outranks the dictionary meaning for the general public.
Also a dictionary word claimed as the exclusive identity of one tech company rather than as an open category, resting on the same assumption that the corporate meaning has eclipsed every prior meaning of the word.
Same buyer and same job, a consumer video-communications company putting its product identity on a TLD, but the string is a coined mark with no pre-existing owners, so it carries none of the common-word appropriation risk that defines the .zoom bet.
creators and small brands in photography, video, mobility, and fitness who want a short, energetic name; plus speculators betting on the word's pop-culture pull.
What a .zoom domain is
.zoom is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, in our AI & tech category. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list.
Is the .zoom domain extension real yet?
.zoom 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 .zoom domain?
You can’t yet. A .zoom name can only be registered once the string is delegated (added to the DNS root) and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .zoom was .box, delegated on 11 November 2016.
Is .zoom a real TLD?
Not yet. .zoom is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .zoom is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- Link Freedom Group · now deactivated backupICANN
- Link Freedom Group · now abandonedICANN
- Zoom · first recordedICANN
- Link Freedom Group · first recordedLink Freedom Group
“ZM2617T-T29629 · Zoom Communications, Inc. · primary”ICANN
“LFGL2683T-T78260 · Link Freedom Group Ltd · replacement string of .order · Deactivated ZM2617T-T29629 · Zoom Communications, Inc. · primary”ICANN
“.zoom · Lifestyle · “See more, move further, faster.””Link Freedom Group
- Band: usable but limited (30-49). The string is a genuine dictionary word with broad, positive connotations of speed and motion, and it is short and universally pronounceable, which supports volume registrations at accessible prices over the next 5 years. But the word's dominant global association today is a major videoconferencing brand, which cuts two ways: it makes the string instantly familiar, yet it means any third party using a .zoom address risks looking affiliated with, or parasitic on, that brand, which deters serious primary-identity use and chills corporate buyers. The applicant's own catalog positions it as Lifestyle (tagline: 'See more, move further, faster.'), a framing that leans on the dictionary sense rather than the brand sense; whether registrants read it that way is unproven. It is not in 10-29 because the word is common, evocative, and marketable enough to sustain real price-driven registration volume beyond novelty spikes, by analogy with other punchy dictionary-word TLDs that found budget-tier volume (analogy, not data). It is not in 50-69 because no category treats .zoom as a natural identity default, and the brand shadow undermines the sustained, explained-once adoption that band requires. Main market uncertainty: whether the videoconferencing association acts as a demand engine (ecosystem tools, integrations, fan and developer projects adopting it) or as a suppressant (trademark chill keeping serious registrants away); the score assumes it nets out as a suppressant for primary-identity use.