A niche TLD for chess clubs, national and regional federations, coaches, tournament organizers, streamers, and chess-content sites wanting an on-the-nose identity.
chess clubs, national and regional federations, coaches, tournament organizers, streamers, and chess-content sites wanting an on-the-nose identity
Community application for .chess, announced jointly with FIDE on World Chess's own site. A community application carries community-priority evaluation rights in contention. FIDE is institutional sponsor; World Chess funds and operates; IT.com Domains is the named back end.
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 single named game (not a sport category) whose registry sells identity to clubs, tournaments, coaches, media and players who already self-describe by the game's name, with the whole business resting on one hobbyist vertical being deep enough to sustain a namespace.
Same bet: one named discipline with a global governing body and a club/federation pyramid, where the registry is betting that organized play plus a devoted fan base will put its primary identity on the sport's own word rather than a .com.
Same shape of bet — a single named participatory sport monetized through clubs, coaches, tournaments and gear retail — but the commercial layer around it is far broader than a mind game's, so the buyer mix leans more commerce and less community.
- World Chess · first recordedWorld Chess
“The application for the game's official top-level domain has been submitted to ICANN — the first chance in over a decade to create one.”World Chess