.cot
Is .cot a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody has applied for .cot in its own right, as of 7 October 2026. .TOP Registry named .cot as the replacement string of its .log application.
A short string with no strong shared meaning; a few hacks and niche uses are likely, but it is rarely a serious primary identity.
domain-hack hobbyists (mas.cot, apri.cot), baby-furniture and camping sellers, and AI tooling projects playing on "chain-of-thought" who want a short quirky address
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 .cot: a tiny, playful dictionary word with no industry or profession behind it, filed by a portfolio operator betting that short-and-memorable alone will pull registrations rather than any category of buyer needing it for primary identity.
Also a three-letter word whose meaning is an in-joke rather than a category, so like .cot its realistic constituency is hobbyist and developer novelty registrations plus domain-hack cuteness, not businesses putting their main brand on it.
A plain concrete common noun with no commercial vertical attached — nobody's primary identity is "duck" the way it is "hotel" or "insurance" — so the wager is on word charm and wordplay value, the same thin basis .cot has to stand on.
What a .cot domain is
.cot is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under Other. Nobody has applied for .cot in its own right. It is named on ICANN’s list as part of an application for another string.
Is the .cot domain extension real yet?
.cot 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 .cot domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .cot name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .cot was .boo, delegated on 30 August 2014.
Is .cot a real TLD?
Not yet. .cot is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because ICANN’s list names .cot as part of an application for another string. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- .TOP Registry · first recordedICANN
“NPL2622T-T46713 · NETDREAM PTE. LTD. · replacement string of .log”ICANN
“HS2699T-T16924 · Heir Superiority, LLC · primary · contention set 2026-51 LFGL2683T-T84167 · Link Freedom Group Ltd · primary · contention set 2026-51 NA2626T-T56898 · ShortDot (Ireland) Limited · primary · contention set 2026-51 NPL2622T-T38794 · NETDREAM PTE. LTD. · replacement string of .pop · Deactivated”ICANN
- Band chosen: 10-29 (vanity/joke/narrow). The record shows .cot as a replacement string filed by NETDREAM PTE. LTD. whose primary application string is .log; no category tag and no contention are recorded, so the string's market has to be judged from the word itself. "Cot" carries three thin meanings — a small bed (baby or camp cot), the finance abbreviation for commitment-of-traders style reporting, and the AI shorthand for chain-of-thought prompting — none of which is a category a serious project describes itself by, and the AI reading is an acronym rather than a word people search for. By analogy (flagged as analogy), short, low-meaning three-letter strings from the 2012 round such as .cab or .wtf tended to settle into small registration bases driven by hacks and promotional pricing rather than primary-identity use; .cot looks closer to that group than to a category word. It is not in the 30-49 band because there is no obvious generic use that would pull volume registrations even on price, and it is not in the 1-9 band because word-ending hacks (mas.cot, boy.cot, apri.cot), a baby-products niche and the chain-of-thought angle give a small but real set of buyers. Main market uncertainty: whether the operator markets the string on its AI chain-of-thought reading with cheap wholesale pricing through mainstream registrars, which could lift it toward the upper edge of this band, versus leaving it as an undifferentiated portfolio string. Applicant and status facts are stated only as the record gives them and are used solely to note that the string is a secondary choice, which usually implies modest promotional intent.