Upcoming TLDs / .follow
Can you register a .follow domain?
Source: ICANN 2026 round applications, checked October 27, 2026. Not in the IANA root zone as of October 26, 2026.
What .follow would mean
In their own words, from the public part of each application (question 118):
To subscribe to another user's or account's content so that their posts, updates, or activity appear in one's own feed or notifications
“Follow” commonly means to come after, subscribe to, support, or stay informed about someone or something. Online, it often means receiving updates from or staying connected with an account, creator, community, brand, or topic.
Common English verb. To follow is to keep track of, or subscribe to, the published output of a person or organisation; in current usage, to subscribe to an account on a social or publishing platform.
Who applied for .follow
Deejuu Web Technology Private Limited
IN, stage: Pre-Evaluation Processing, ICANN applicant support
The mission and purpose of .follow is to give individuals, creators, and brands an open, generic namespace for building and directing an audience — personal and creator profiles, calls-to-action inviting visitors to follow an account, and social media aggregation or link-in-bio style pages that consolidate a person's presence across platforms.
Suffix Inc.
US, stage: Pre-Evaluation Processing
The mission of .FOLLOW is to provide an accessible namespace for individuals, businesses, organizations, communities, projects, and other entities that identify with or wish to be associated with the concept of following, connection, participation, discovery, or ongoing engagement. The purpose of .FOLLOW is to enable registrants to establish distinctive online identities through domain names that reflect the concept represented by the applied-for string. To achieve this purpose, SUFFIX INC. will make .FOLLOW available for registration through accredited registrars and other appropriate …
XRegistry Inc.
XRegistry Incorporated, JP, stage: Pre-Evaluation Processing
The mission of .follow is to give creators, publishers and communities a short, action-shaped address for the one place where an audience subscribes. The string is the ordinary English verb ""follow"" - to keep track of, or subscribe to, what someone publishes. It is applied for and will be operated in that plain descriptive sense.
What happens next
- April 30, 2026: Application window opened (done)
- August 12, 2026: Application window closed (done)
- October 7, 2026: Reveal Day: ICANN published every applied-for string (done)
- October 21, 2026: Replacement period ended (applicants could switch to a backup string) (done)
- November 17, 2026: String Confirmation Day: the final list of applied-for strings
- March 16, 2027: Community input and objections period ends
Dates from ICANN’s Reveal Day announcement, checked October 27, 2026. We re-check the applications every day and this page changes when they do.
When will .follow be available?
ICANN has not set a date. The final list of applied-for strings comes on String Confirmation Day (November 17, 2026), community input and objections run until March 16, 2027, and ICANN processes applications after a prioritization draw in 2027. Registration opens only after ICANN delegates .follow and its registry announces launch dates.