.cyb
Is .cyb a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody has applied for .cyb in its own right, as of 7 October 2026. Juming named .cyb as the replacement string of its .way application.
A short "cyber"-style ending that security and hacker-culture brands might play with, but few would make it their main address.
cybersecurity startups, hacker-culture and cyberpunk-themed projects, and short-string collectors looking for a three-letter ending with a tech flavour
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 in unclipped form: an open, non-brand string whose value depends on an entire security industry agreeing to put its primary identity under a category word rather than under .com, with the registry betting on practitioner credibility instead of a captive corporate user base.
The closest structural match — a short insider shorthand for a security discipline that only works if the field reads the abbreviation as the discipline itself, which is exactly the extra leap .cyb has to make beyond the plain category noun.
Also a generic security-industry string sold to vendors and practitioners for primary identity, but it names one product class rather than the whole field, so it is a narrower slice of the same wager.
What a .cyb domain is
.cyb is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under AI & tech. Nobody has applied for .cyb in its own right. It is named on ICANN’s list as part of an application for another string.
Is the .cyb domain extension real yet?
.cyb 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 .cyb domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .cyb name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .cyb was .security, delegated on 17 September 2015.
Is .cyb a real TLD?
Not yet. .cyb is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because ICANN’s list names .cyb as part of an application for another string. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- Juming · first recordedICANN
- Band chosen: 10-29 (vanity/narrow). The string .cyb has no dictionary meaning; it reads as a truncation of "cyber" or "cybersecurity", which gives it a recognisable flavour but not a word people type or say naturally. The record shows a single applicant, TechEdge Limited, filed as a replacement string for .way with no contention, which suggests limited competitive interest in the string itself. It is not in the 30-49 band because a usable-but-limited TLD needs a clear reason for volume registrations (a price play, a meaning, or a community), and .cyb has only a weak abbreviation signal; by analogy, full-word security-themed TLDs have found modest, explain-it-every-time adoption rather than becoming defaults, and a clipped form would likely sit below them (analogy, not measured). It is not in the 1-9 band because the cyber/cyberpunk aesthetic is a real, durable niche and three-letter endings with a tech feel do attract hacks, side projects and some brand experiments, so a thin but non-zero market is plausible over the next 5 years. By analogy with short meaningless strings that grew on discount pricing, volume is possible if priced low, but that volume tends to carry weak brand signal and a thin aftermarket. Main market uncertainty: whether security practitioners and hacker communities read "cyb" as an accepted shorthand for cyber, or as a typo-looking fragment they would not put on a business card.