Would You Build a Small Site on the Next Wave of New gTLDs?

ICANN received more than 1,600 primary applications in the 2026 round. Early themes include tech, commerce, crypto and culture, but none of these applications is automatically a live TLD.

For a small site, the practical questions are simpler: can visitors trust the name, is the renewal affordable, and will the domain still make sense in a few years?

Which theme would you actually use for a real hosted site?