Upcoming TLDs / .platform
Can you register a .platform domain?
Source: ICANN 2026 round applications, checked October 27, 2026. Not in the IANA root zone as of October 26, 2026.
What .platform would mean
In their own words, from the public part of each application (question 118):
A platform is a base on which other things are built and offered - the systems, services, tools, and venues through which products reach users and ideas reach audiences.
Platform commonly refers to a foundation or framework that supports or enables activities, interactions, or other functions.
"Platform" is an English word meaning a raised level surface or stage; in computing and business, the underlying system, service, or environment on which applications, content, or communities are built and operated.
Who applied for .platform
Intercap Registry Inc.
KY, stage: Pre-Evaluation Processing
The proposed .platform top-level domain represents the ordinary business term for a base on which other things are built and offered - the systems, services, tools, and venues through which products reach users and ideas reach audiences. Companies of every size describe what they offer as a platform, and the word is equally at home in publishing, education, and public life.
Oyster Dream, LLC
US, stage: Pre-Evaluation Processing
The mission of .PLATFORM is to provide a namespace associated with the concept of platform as a foundation or framework that supports or enables activities, interactions, or other functions. The .PLATFORM 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.
Radix Technologies Inc SEZC
Radix Technologies Inc SEZC, KY, stage: Pre-Evaluation Processing
1. Mission and purpose: The mission of .platform is to provide a namespace for the platform businesses that structure the modern economy. Intended registrants include software-as-a-service and infrastructure companies; marketplaces and developer platforms; media, community and commerce platforms of every scale; and the consultancies and publishers serving platform businesses. Intended users are the developers, businesses and consumers who build on and use platforms worldwide. Following delegation, the applicant will, as registry operator of the .platform TLD, conduct a phased launch, implement …
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 .platform 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 .platform and its registry announces launch dates.