.acc
Is .acc a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.acc is not contested. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. It is Link Freedom Group.
Who is applying, and what they run today
Link Freedom Group filed 158 applications across the round.
Will names sell?
A vague shorthand: some appeal to 'accelerate'-branded AI startups and accounting wordplay, but rarely a serious main web address.
Last round the AI scored the 2012 strings blind to their fate. Strings it scored 60 or more hold a median 27,168 names today; those under 30, a median of 30. .acc’s closest 2012 strings hold .cpa 7K, .mba 5K and .ltd 119K.
The nearest 2012 strings, and how many names each holds today
The closest 2012 string, .cpa, held 6,526 names, June 2026. .mba held 5,366; .ltd held 119,045. Chosen by AI from every string in the 2012 round, without being told what happened to any of them.
Same bet on a short, unowned trade abbreviation in the accounting/finance orbit that practitioners already use as shorthand identity, so the registry's value rests on professional recognition of three letters rather than on a self-explaining word.
Same structural bet: an ownerless three-letter abbreviation sold as an open namespace whose entire worth depends on the audience silently expanding the acronym correctly, with no brand owner underwriting the meaning.
Same wager that a habitual business contraction can carry a company's primary identity, where the registry sells familiarity with an abbreviation rather than a category noun buyers would actually search for.
AI startups and communities that brand around 'acc' as shorthand for acceleration, plus a smaller pool of accounting or account-management tools wanting a compact suffix; mostly a secondary or vanity registration rather than a primary identity.
What a .acc domain is
.acc is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, in our AI & tech category. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list.
Is the .acc domain extension real yet?
.acc is not yet a domain extension you can register: nothing resolves under it, and no registrar sells names in it. It is a string applicants have put forward in the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, the process that decides whether it becomes one.
When can you buy a .acc domain?
You can’t yet. A .acc name can only be registered once the string is delegated (added to the DNS root) and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .acc was .cpa, delegated on 20 September 2019.
Is .acc a real TLD?
Not yet. .acc is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .acc is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- Link Freedom Group · now confirmedICANN
- Link Freedom Group · first recordedLink Freedom Group
“LFGL2683T-T93594 · Link Freedom Group Ltd · primary”ICANN
“.acc · AI & Tech · “Move faster, leave limits behind.””Link Freedom Group
- Band 10-29 (vanity/narrow). The string has no single dominant meaning: it can read as 'accelerate' (the accelerationist 'acc' idiom in AI circles), 'account', 'accounting', or a sports-conference abbreviation, and that ambiguity dilutes the brand signal a TLD needs to become a default. By analogy, longer accounting-targeted TLDs have seen registrations without meaningful primary-identity adoption, and short abbreviation TLDs without an obvious expansion have tended to fill with speculative or defensive registrations rather than serious end-use; that is an inference from analogy, not a measured fact (specific volumes unknown). The accelerationist reading gives it a real but culture-driven pocket of demand among AI-adjacent projects over the next 5 years, which is why it clears the 1-9 band, but that demand is meme-adjacent and could fade with the idiom. It does not reach 30-49 because there is no credible path to volume or price-driven registration at scale nor a clear buyer group that would treat it as a natural home; the applicant's own 'AI & Tech' framing and 'move faster' tagline lean on the accelerationist reading, which supports intent but not demonstrated demand. Main market uncertainty: whether the 'acc' acceleration idiom persists as a naming convention among funded AI companies over the next 5 years or decays as slang, which would collapse the best-fit buyer group.