.act
Is .act a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.act is not contested. One applicant has said publicly that it applied to run it, and nobody else has, as of 15 August 2026. It is Link Freedom Group.
A catchy action-word ending suited to slogans and word tricks, but few serious projects would make it their main address.
campaigners, performing-arts groups, and brands chasing action-flavored names or domain hacks (re.act, inter.act, imp.act); secondarily anyone marketing around 'take action' calls.
In LFG's published list of 300+ strings submitted before the ICANN window closed on 2026-08-12. Their catalog tagline: “Make your move, take action.”
The 2012 applications making the most similar bet. Chosen by AI from every string in that round, without being told what happened to any of them.
Same bet: a short, one-syllable English word that is simultaneously an imperative verb and a theatrical noun, sold as an open call-to-action namespace to many unrelated constituencies rather than to one industry, so its value rests on the word's punchiness in a phrase rather than on any defined registrant pool.
Same bet: a generic ultra-short verb with no natural owner, monetized on left-of-dot construction (verb + destination) across sport, software, campaigns and business, which requires marketers to buy the grammar rather than an identity.
Similar bet in structure — a short, semantically overloaded English word that only works if registrants adopt it for the phrase it completes — but its meaning skews hard to one commercial use case, giving it a narrower demand story than a pure open-ended verb.
What a .act domain is
.act is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under Culture. One applicant has said publicly that it applied for .act.
Is the .act domain extension real yet?
.act 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 .act domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .act name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .act was .play, delegated on .
Is .act a real TLD?
Not yet. .act is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because an applicant said publicly that it applied for .act in the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round. Every claim on this page links to its source.
- Link Freedom Group · first recordedLink Freedom Group
“.act · Lifestyle · “Make your move, take action.””Link Freedom Group
“LFG voluntarily published its full list of submissions ahead of ICANN’s official Reveal Day.”PR Newswire (Link Freedom Group)
“Top level domain registry Link Freedom Group (LFG) has disclosed more than 300 strings submitted as part of the ICANN new top level domain name program.”Domain Name Wire (Andrew Allemann)
- Band 30-49 (usable but limited). The string is a short, common English verb with genuine surface appeal: it supports many clean domain hacks (re.act, inter.act, ex.act, imp.act, contr.act) and reads naturally in activism, theater, and self-improvement contexts, which fits the applicant's stated Lifestyle framing ('Make your move, take action.'). By analogy, suffix-hack TLDs and generic verb/word TLDs have historically produced clever registrations and campaign microsites more often than durable primary identities, and their aftermarkets have stayed thin outside a handful of hack names (analogy, not measured data; specific volumes unknown). That pattern keeps .act out of the 50-69 band: demand is plausible but episodic (campaigns, shows, launches) rather than sustained primary-identity use, and the TLD itself adds little credibility to a brand. It sits above the 10-29 band because the word is broadly meaningful across several buyer groups, the hack inventory is real, and 'act' also carries recognizable geo meaning (Australian Capital Territory) that could add a modest regional registration base. Main market uncertainty: whether domain-hack registrations convert into primary identities that renew, or remain redirect/vanity uses that churn after the campaign or event ends.