Geographic top-level domain

As of 2026, several examples of geographic TLDs exist: .london, enabling London businesses, organizations, and individuals to establish an online naming presence, .asia (for Asia), .rio (for Rio de Janeiro city), .quebec (for Québec province), .cat which is a sponsored top-level domain intended to be used to highlight the Catalan language and culture. .eu is a country code top-level domain, since "EU" is a reserved country code for the European Union in ISO 3166-1.

In 2017, an interest group focused on geographic TLDs was formed and joined as a member of the Registry Stakeholder Group (RySG) at ICANN. The GeoTLD Group AISBL is an international non-for-profit membership association resident in Belgium. It represents and promotes the interests of organizations operating a generic top-level domain which denominates a geographic name, geographic identifier or geographic origin (so-called GeoTLD) with the purpose of serving the respective place, language and culture on the internet.

Proposals

Examples of proposed top-level domains in this category are:

• .αθήνα (Athens, Greece)
• .bali (island of Bali, Indonesia)
• .berlin (city of Berlin, Germany)
• .wien (city of Vienna, Austria)
• .bcn (city of Barcelona)
• .bzh (Breton community)
• .cym (Wales (Cymru); awarded to the Cayman Islands)
• .cymru (Wales (Cymru))
• .wales (Wales)
• .eus (Basque language)
• .gal (Galician language)
• .saarland (the German state of Saarland)
• .africa (African and Pan African communities)
• .vlaanderen (Flanders, Belgium)
• .上海 (Shanghai)
• .ln and .le - Currently being sold by Dennis Hope's "Lunar Embassy Commission" alongside .lunar, .moon, .venus, .mars, .jupiter, .saturn, .uranus, .neptune, .pluto, .space. People who purchase novelty deeds for outer space property from him are also given free domains. None of these TLDs are supported by the root servers and it is unlikely they will be in the future (Although, with the ICANN decision to allow registration of custom gTLDs, it becomes possible).
• .toronto (Toronto)