.any
Is .any a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.any is not contested. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. It is Link Freedom Group. GoDaddy Registry named .any as a backup string for its .all application. ICANN deactivated it, because another applicant applied for the same string or named it as a backup.
Who is applying, and what they run today
One of the 2 is tied to a registry that runs TLDs today. Link Freedom Group and GoDaddy Registry filed 235 applications between them across the round.
Will names sell?
A wordplay suffix: names like comp.any are clever, but few projects are likely to make .any their serious main 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. .any’s closest 2012 strings hold .you 9K.
The nearest 2012 strings, and how many names each holds today
The closest 2012 string, .you, held 8,547 names, June 2026. Chosen by AI from every string in the 2012 round, without being told what happened to any of them.
- .and
Same bet exactly: a closed-class English function word with no category, brand, or community behind it, worthless as a standalone identity and saleable only as syntactic glue in a left-of-dot phrase construction, so the registry is betting on wordplay volume rather than on any defined buyer.
- .are
Another grammatical connective word applied for as a portfolio generic — nobody's primary identity is 'are', so its whole value proposition is completing a sentence across the dot, the identical mechanic .any would need to survive.
Also a pronoun-class function word sold on phrase construction rather than category membership, but it is a step closer to usable identity than .any because direct address ('for you') gives marketers a reason to plant a brand on it, which a quantifier does not.
startups and creative brands hunting for word-hack names (English words ending in -any, like company or botany), plus speculators chasing the small set of dictionary-completing strings; secondarily, budget registrants drawn to the open 'anything' semantics.
What a .any domain is
.any is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, in our Brand category. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list.
Is the .any domain extension real yet?
.any 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 .any domain?
You can’t yet. A .any name can only be registered once the string is delegated (added to the DNS root) and its registry opens.
Is .any a real TLD?
Not yet. .any is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .any is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- GoDaddy Registry · first recordedICANN
- Link Freedom Group · now confirmedICANN
- Link Freedom Group · first recordedLink Freedom Group
“LFGL2683T-T82030 · Link Freedom Group Ltd · primary NA2631T-T80151 · Registry Services, LLC · replacement string of .all · Deactivated”ICANN
“LFGL2683T-T82030 · Link Freedom Group Ltd · primary”ICANN
“.any · Lifestyle · “No boundaries, just possibilities.””Link Freedom Group
- Band chosen: usable but limited (30-49). The string's real asset is the domain-hack inventory: a meaningful set of common English words end in -any (company, botany, epiphany, Germany, Tiffany), so left-of-dot hacks such as comp.any read cleanly and could attract clever brand registrations, by analogy with how hack-friendly endings like .ly and .ing drew creative short names (analogy, outcomes for this string unknown). It is not in the band above (strong niche, 50-69) because the hack pool is finite and novelty-driven rather than a category with sustained demand, and 'any' standing alone right of the dot carries almost no brand signal for a serious primary identity; hack TLDs historically skew toward redirects, campaigns, and side projects rather than main addresses (analogy, flagged as such). It is not in the band below (vanity/joke, 10-29) because the hack strings are genuinely attractive to real companies and the open 'anything' semantics can also support volume registrations on price, giving it more than shallow event-driven demand. The applicant, Link Freedom Group, filed a large portfolio of strings in the 2026 round and lists .any under a 'Lifestyle' category with the tagline 'No boundaries, just possibilities.'; a portfolio operator suggests standardized registrar distribution but tells us little about string-specific marketing. Main market uncertainty: whether registry pricing and reservation policy leaves the high-value hack strings (comp, germ, tiff, bot) actually obtainable, since that inventory is nearly all of the TLD's aftermarket and end-use value over the next 5 years.