.cosplay
Is .cosplay a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody has applied for .cosplay in its own right, as of 7 October 2026. Oinkadot named .cosplay as the replacement string of its .dragon application.
A fun address for a hobby that lives on social apps; few cosplayers or shops will make it their main online home.
cosplayers, costume and prop makers, and convention or fan-community organisers who want a self-describing address for a portfolio, shop, or event page
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.
Both are a subculture's own self-coined name for its practice rather than an industry category, so the bet is the same: that participants will wear the culture's name as their primary identity even though no company owns it and no trade body can be sold a captive namespace.
Same bet shape of a participatory body-and-costume craft whose registrants split between enthusiast practitioners and the small artists/shops that serve them, which means volume depends on hobbyist self-expression rather than on commercial need.
Also a practice noun that people identify with personally, where the paying registrants are individual teachers, small studios and gear sellers, so it has to work as lifestyle identity plus a long tail of micro-businesses rather than as a corporate category.
What a .cosplay domain is
.cosplay 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 .cosplay in its own right. It is named on ICANN’s list as part of an application for another string.
Is the .cosplay domain extension real yet?
.cosplay 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 .cosplay domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .cosplay name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .cosplay was .hiphop, delegated on 15 May 2014.
Is .cosplay a real TLD?
Not yet. .cosplay is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because ICANN’s list names .cosplay as part of an application for another string. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- Oinkadot · first recordedICANN
“OI2692T-T72740 · Oinkadot Inc · replacement string of .dragon”ICANN
“CEI2660T-T22085 · Capella Exploration, Inc. · primary OI2692T-T54011 · Oinkadot Inc · replacement string of .dine · Deactivated”ICANN
“A new partnership has applied for 25 top level domain names in this year's ICANN TLD expansion round.”Domain Name Wire (Andrew Allemann)
- Band chosen: 10-29 (vanity/narrow). The verified facts show a single application on the record, filed by Oinkadot Inc as a replacement for its primary string .dragon, with no contention; that neutrally suggests a portfolio-style launch rather than a community-backed one, which usually means thin marketing to the actual hobby. Cosplay is a real, global, highly visible creator community, but its identity layer sits on social and video platforms and link-in-bio pages, not on owned domains; a personal site is the exception, so primary-identity use is rare. By analogy (inference, not fact), fandom and hobby strings from the 2012 round such as .moe and .fan/.fans found small, loyal but shallow uptake with little aftermarket, and craft strings like .photography drew volume mainly on registrar price promotions rather than brand pull. Commercial demand exists (costume shops, prop makers, conventions), but those buyers already hold .com or marketplace storefronts and would treat .cosplay as a redirect at best. It is not in 30-49 because I do not expect sustained registration volume even at low price, and the brand signal is playful rather than credible for a business. It is not in 1-9 because a definable buyer group with real spending (conventions, commissions, costume commerce) does exist and some event-driven and vanity registrations are plausible. Main market uncertainty: whether creator-economy cosplayers shift from platform handles to owned name.cosplay portfolio sites over the next 5 years; if a notable share did, the string could move into the low 30s.