.ami
Is .ami a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody has applied for .ami in its own right, as of 7 October 2026. The Incite Group, LLC named .ami as the replacement string of its .iam application.
A short, friendly word ("friend" in French) with hack and gift appeal, but no category would make .ami its home address.
french-speaking creators, community and social projects, plus brands and individuals playing on "ami" as a friendship or name hack
No applications recorded for this TLD yet.
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 as .ami: a short, real, warm word in a major non-English language with no industry behind it, so its only route to registrations is personal-identity wordplay (soy.<name> / mon.ami) sold into one language community rather than a category whose businesses would put their primary address on it.
Also a three-letter affectionate non-English word with no category home, monetized by a narrow community that adopts it for warmth and sound rather than by any trade that needs it, which is the same small-but-real vanity base .ami is betting on.
Another everyday friendliness word ('everyone') scoped to one language, where the pitch is sentiment and social/community belonging rather than a vertical's address, so it rises or falls on whether registrars in that language actually market it.
What a .ami domain is
.ami is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under Culture. Nobody has applied for .ami in its own right. It is named on ICANN’s list as part of an application for another string.
Is the .ami domain extension real yet?
.ami is not yet a domain extension you can register: nothing resolves under it, and no registrar sells names in it. Nobody has applied for it on the public record; the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round is the process that would decide whether it becomes one.
When can you buy a .ami domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .ami name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .ami was .soy, delegated on 19 April 2014.
Is .ami a real TLD?
Not yet. .ami is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because ICANN’s list names .ami as part of an application for another string. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- The Incite Group, LLC · first recordedICANN
“TIGL2633T-T28238 · The Incite Group, LLC · replacement string of .iam”ICANN
- Band chosen: 10-29 (vanity/narrow), at its top. The string is short, pronounceable and carries a warm meaning in French ('friend'), which gives it hack potential (mon.ami, bon.ami, ton.ami) and some appeal for community, social and personal-name use (Ami is also a given name); it also reads as a tech acronym (machine images, metering infrastructure), though acronym meanings rarely translate into registrations. Not the band above (30-49): there is no category where .ami would be the natural address, no obvious volume driver beyond francophone wordplay, and the only application on the record is a replacement string whose primary string was .iam, which tells us nothing about a dedicated marketing plan for .ami specifically. Not the band below (1-9): a real-word, three-letter, major-language string has a realistic if small market, and by analogy short quirky-word gTLDs (.lol, .wtf, .moe, .ink — analogy, not data) have each found modest sustained registration bases rather than none. Main market uncertainty: whether francophone registrars and buyers treat it as a usable 'friend' namespace or simply ignore it in favour of .fr and .com, which would push it toward the low teens.