Upcoming TLDs / .hub
Can you register a .hub domain?
Source: ICANN 2026 round applications, checked October 27, 2026. Not in the IANA root zone as of October 26, 2026.
What .hub would mean
In their own words, from the public part of each application (question 118):
hub
Hub is an English word meaning: the central part of a wheel; a center of activity, commerce, or interest; a focal point around which a network or community is organized.
A hub is a central point where people, information, activities, or resources come together.
central place
A central place, point, or part of a system where people, activities, information, services, or connections are concentrated or brought together.
A hub is a central point around which activity, connections, or movement converge, functioning as a focal core that links multiple parts, people, or destinations together.
"Hub" is an English word meaning the central part of a wheel and, by extension, a center of activity around which people, information, services, or transport converge.
Hub commonly refers to a center of activity, connection, coordination, or exchange.
A hub is a central point that connects people, services, resources, information, or activities within a shared community, network, or subject area. It facilitates access, collaboration, coordination, and interaction across physical or digital environments
HUB is the center where people, ideas, systems, commerce and activity come together. In a wheel, it is the core that keeps everything moving. Everything connects somewhere. That somewhere is the hub.
Who applied for .hub
HUB
HUB Culture Ltd, BM, stage: Pre-Evaluation Processing
.hub is put forward as the domain for the network economy — a namespace where identity, geography, the metaverse, and artificial intelligence converge, serving as a universal namespace for people,
Hostinger
Hostinger UAB, LT, stage: Pre-Evaluation Processing
The .hub gTLD will provide a namespace for platforms, communities, and services that act as central points of activity - the meaning "hub" carries in everyday and business language. Its intended registrants include online communities and forums, resource and knowledge platforms, marketplaces, local and industry portals, and businesses positioning themselves as the central destination for a topic or audience (e.g., design.hub, sports.hub, city.hub). "Hub" is one of the most widely used aggregator terms in domain naming today, with hundreds of thousands of hub-named registrations spread across …
Intercap Registry Inc.
KY, stage: Pre-Evaluation Processing
The proposed .hub top-level domain represents the broad concept of a hub - a central point where people, information, activities, or resources come together. The word is in everyday use across nearly every field, from team and customer hubs run by businesses to resource and program hubs run by organizations of all kinds.
Link Freedom Group / LFG
Link Freedom Group Ltd, MT, stage: Pre-Evaluation Processing
Link Freedom Group (LFG) aspires to become a best-in-class, vertically integrated domain name registration authority, see linkfreedomgroup.link. This TLD is part of a carefully curated portfolio of strings that LFG intends to pursue in ICANN’s 2026 New gTLD Program. In assembling this portfolio, LFG focused on securing meaningful, memorable, and commercially compelling strings that resonate strongly with end users and offer long-term growth potential.
ShortDot (Ireland) Limited
IE, stage: Pre-Evaluation Processing
The mission of .hub is to provide a memorable namespace for individuals, businesses, communities, platforms, and organizations that bring people, information, resources, or services together. Intended registrants include community hubs, business and innovation centres, knowledge portals, local initiatives, creator communities, and digital platforms. The registry intends .hub to be broadly available, reliable, and secure, subject to registration policies, abuse-prevention measures, and ICANN requirements. The mission is sustainable because “hub” has broad, enduring relevance across sectors and …
Registry Services, LLC
US, stage: Pre-Evaluation Processing
1. Mission and Purpose of the Applied-for gTLD
Radix Technologies Inc SEZC
Radix Technologies Inc SEZC, KY, stage: Pre-Evaluation Processing
1. Mission and purpose: The mission of .hub is to provide a namespace for the central gathering places of the internet: the portals, communities and platforms where people and information converge. Intended registrants include organizations naming portals, intranets and resource centers; community operators; coworking, logistics and innovation hubs; and brands using "hub" to name a central destination. Intended users are the visitors, members and customers those destinations serve worldwide. Following delegation, the applicant will, as registry operator of the .hub TLD, conduct a phased …
Empty Hand, LLC
US, stage: Pre-Evaluation Processing
The mission of .HUB is to provide a namespace associated with the concept of a hub as a center of activity, connection, coordination, or exchange. The .HUB gTLD is intended to serve a broad range of registrants and users, including individuals, businesses, organizations, communities, projects, and other entities that identify with, relate to, or wish to be associated with the concept represented by the applied-for string.
Squarespace Registry LLC
US, stage: Pre-Evaluation Processing
".HUB" is proposed as an open namespace for anything that serves as a central point of access or connection for a defined community, subject area, or service category. The registrant population is intentionally wide: community organizations, neighborhood resource centers, industry portals, professional associations, nonprofits consolidating social services, coworking spaces, and digital platforms aggregating tools for a specific discipline are all, in the plainest sense, hubs. What unites them is function rather than sector: they exist to bring people and resources together in one place. The …
XYZ.COM LLC
US, stage: Pre-Evaluation Processing
1. Mission and purpose. This gTLD will be operated as an open, unrestricted generic top-level domain. Its purpose is to expand naming choice in the DNS by making this term available at the top level for any lawful use chosen by the registrant. Registrations will be available to all registrants on a first-come, first-served basis through ICANN-accredited registrars, subject only to the Registry Agreement, ICANN Consensus Policies, and applicable law. The applicant will not operate this gTLD on an exclusive basis.
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 .hub 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 .hub and its registry announces launch dates.