.cruise Domain

Ocean and river cruising sit behind .cruise, and the string belongs to the round's closed-generic category: an ordinary English word naming an entire travel sector, delegated on a restricted basis rather than opened for registration. Applications of this kind attracted sustained objection through ICANN's 2012 New gTLD Program and remain central to debate about how descriptive terms should be handled in future windows.

There is no registration channel, pricing, or aftermarket for .cruise domains; use is confined to the operator's own travel properties. For cruise lines, agents, and specialist operators the extension is notable mainly for what it is not — a namespace the sector can use — which is a recurring argument in the policy case for treating generic strings differently next time.