TLDs Owned by Google: .app, .dev, .google and More
Google holds 46 top-level domains as of 19 October 2026, all signed with ICANN by its registry company, Charleston Road Registry Inc. They fall into two groups. One is kept for Google's own use, from brands such as .google and .youtube to words such as .docs and .search, with 920 active domains between them. The other is open extensions sold to the public, led by .app and .dev, which hold about 2.55 million active domains together.
101 applications in 2012
When ICANN opened the 2012 round, Charleston Road Registry filed 101 applications. The list mixed Google's brands (.google, .youtube, .gmail, .android, .chrome, and .谷歌 and .グーグル for its Chinese and Japanese names) with everyday words such as .app, .dev, .page, .search, .map, .blog, .shop and .web. Today 45 of those applications are in its portfolio. The 46th TLD, .meet, was applied for by Afilias plc and is now under a Google registry agreement. The other 56 strings, .web, .blog and .shop among them, are not Google's.
A timeline of delegations
The first Google TLD to enter the root was .みんな, Japanese for "everyone", in November 2013. Most of the rest followed in 2014, when 33 were delegated, including .google, .youtube and .gmail, and word extensions such as .how, .soy, .zip and .mov. .dev followed in December 2014 under an agreement signed with ICANN in October. .app came last among the big ones: its registry agreement was signed on 14 May 2015 and the TLD was delegated in July. The final three, .map, .phd and .search, entered the root in June 2017. Google has added no TLD since.
Brand TLDs kept for Google
Six of the 46 are registered with ICANN as brand TLDs (Specification 13): .google, .youtube, .gmail, .android, .chrome and .谷歌. These are not for sale to the public, and they stay small: .google holds 295 active domains, .youtube 26 and .gmail 5. Several word TLDs are named after Google's core products. .docs, .search, .map and .ads have no announced launch date yet, so each holds only one or two domains, and .drive is reserved for Google's own use.
.app and .dev: the extensions the public took up
The open extensions are where the volume is. .app holds 1,755,341 active domains and .dev 795,358, as of 18 October 2026, far ahead of .page (40,704), .ing (23,161) and .zip (13,622). Both have grown fast: in the year to 6 September 2026, .app went from 875,270 to 1,616,504 active domains and .dev from 511,418 to 752,828.
Standard prices and premium names
Google sells these extensions the way many new gTLD registries do. Most names go at standard prices of roughly USD 10 to 50 a year at different registrars. Short or meaningful names are set aside as registry premiums with their own yearly price. At Cloudflare Registrar, we found these premium prices on 19 October 2026:
| Domain | Price per year (USD) |
|---|---|
| euro.dev | 329.20 |
| ct.dev | 649.20 |
| deutschland.app | 799.20 |
| ja.app | 799.20 |
Pricing names this way keeps their value with the registry instead of the resale market, and it gives people building a brand a way to get a strong name for a few hundred dollars a year rather than an aftermarket price. Short names that are still open to register can be checked with the DomainKits Unregistered Short Domains monitor.
Back for the 2026 round
Google is applying again. In ICANN's 2026 round, Charleston Road Registry filed 39 applications, 20 of them for brands such as .gemini, .deepmind and .waymo. It is also one of 13 applicants for .agent, the most contested string of the round, against OpenAI, Meta and several domain registries.
Summary
Google entered the registry business with 101 applications in 2012 and holds 46 TLDs today, none added since 2017. The TLDs it keeps for itself stay small, while .app and .dev hold about 2.55 million active domains between them.
The 2026 round will show whether Google repeats that mix, with 20 brand applications next to contested open strings such as .agent.
- Google's TLDs and their registry agreements come from ICANN's registry agreement list; delegation dates come from the IANA root zone database.
- 2012 applications are from ICANN's application status records; 2026 applications from ICANN's application list of 13 October 2026.
- Premium prices were read at Cloudflare Registrar on 19 October 2026 and can change.
- Active domain counts are DomainKits observations as of 18 October 2026; counts for every TLD are on the Data Overview page.
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