---
id: "pre-registration"
kind: "glossary-term"
title: "pre-registration"
language: "en"
category: "Registration life cycle"
updated: "2026-10-04T14:01:23Z"
canonical: "https://tldlog.com/glossary/pre-registration/"
translations:
  es: "https://tldlog.com/es/glosario/prerregistro/"
  de: "https://tldlog.com/de/glossar/vorregistrierung/"
  fr: "https://tldlog.com/fr/glossaire/preenregistrement/"
  it: "https://tldlog.com/it/glossario/preregistrazione/"
  pt-BR: "https://tldlog.com/pt/glossario/pre-registro/"
  ru: "https://tldlog.com/ru/glossariy/predvaritelnaya-registratsiya/"
  zh-Hans: "https://tldlog.com/zh/cihui/yuzhuce/"
---

# pre-registration

A request placed with a registrar for a domain in a TLD or launch phase that has not opened yet. The registrar promises to try to register the name when it can. It is not a registration and gives no right to the name, and several people may ask for the same one.

## related terms

- [launch phase](https://tldlog.com/glossary/launch-phase/)
- [general availability](https://tldlog.com/glossary/general-availability/)
- [backorder](https://tldlog.com/glossary/backorder/)
- [registrar](https://tldlog.com/glossary/registrar/)
- [first come, first served](https://tldlog.com/glossary/first-come-first-served/)