.cyber
Is .cyber a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.cyber is not contested. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. It is NextGEN TLDs. XYZ Registry named .cyber as a backup string for its .body application. ICANN deactivated it, because another applicant applied for the same string or named it as a backup. Suffix named .cyber as a backup string for its .out application. ICANN deactivated it, because another applicant applied for the same string or named it as a backup. Link Freedom Group named .cyber as a backup string for its .sss 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 4 is tied to a registry that runs TLDs today. Link Freedom Group, XYZ Registry and Suffix filed 321 applications between them across the round.
Will names sell?
A punchy fit for cybersecurity brands, but security buyers are cautious with new extensions, so it stays a niche pick.
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. .cyber’s closest 2012 strings hold .security 931 and .secure 2.
The nearest 2012 strings, and how many names each holds today
The closest 2012 string, .security, held 931 names, June 2026. .secure held 2. Chosen by AI from every string in the 2012 round, without being told what happened to any of them.
Same bet: an open generic that stands in for the entire information-security industry, sold to firms and practitioners who want the category word itself as their primary identity.
Same industry-trust bet, but as an adjective/trust-signal rather than the category noun, so it sells to anyone wanting to assert safety rather than to the security sector claiming its own label.
- .antivirus
Also a security-industry generic bought by vendors in that space, but it names one product niche instead of the whole field, so the addressable identity pool is far narrower.
Where they meet elsewhere
XYZ Registry and Link Freedom Group face each other in 49 contests this round, .cyber included.
- Link Freedom Group × XYZ Registry
- Link Freedom Group × Suffix
- Link Freedom Group × NextGEN TLDs
- XYZ Registry × Suffix
- XYZ Registry × NextGEN TLDs
cybersecurity vendors, consultancies, training and conference brands, plus red-team and threat-intel startups wanting a name that says the category on sight
What a .cyber domain is
.cyber is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, in our AI & tech category. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list.
Is the .cyber domain extension real yet?
.cyber 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 .cyber domain?
You can’t yet. A .cyber name can only be registered once the string is delegated (added to the DNS root) and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .cyber was .security, delegated on 17 September 2015.
Is .cyber a real TLD?
Not yet. .cyber is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .cyber is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- 2 applicants · first recordedICANN
- Link Freedom Group · now deactivated backupICANN
- Link Freedom Group · now abandonedICANN
- NextGEN TLDs · first recordedICANN
- Link Freedom Group · first recordedLink Freedom Group
The source’s 4 linesHide the lines
LFGL2683T-T16416 · Link Freedom Group Ltd · replacement string of .sss · Deactivated NTG2671T-T22960 · NextGEN TLDs GmbH · primary SI2639T-T58285 · Suffix Inc. · replacement string of .out · Deactivated XL2625T-T78147 · XYZ.COM LLC · replacement string of .body · Deactivated
“.cyber · AI & Tech · “The backbone of the digital world.””Link Freedom Group
- Band chosen: strong niche TLD (50-69). The string is short, globally understood, and maps directly onto a large, well-funded buyer category: cybersecurity companies already put 'cyber' in their company names, product lines, and event brands, so the TLD reads as native rather than contrived. By analogy (flagged as analogy), security-themed extensions from the previous expansion round appear to have seen modest primary-identity uptake, while the category's real identity defaults have remained legacy and tech-favored extensions; exact registration figures for those analogs are unknown. It is not in the category-standard band (70-89) because there is no sign that cybersecurity projects treat any new extension as a primary-identity default, and the buyer group is unusually conservative: security firms sell trust, and a novel extension can raise phishing and email-deliverability questions with their own customers, which caps default-status adoption over the next 5 years. It is not in the usable-but-limited band (30-49) because the string is a first-choice category word, not a synonym or fragment, and the buyer pool includes startups and event brands for whom a memorable exact-category name plausibly beats a compromised legacy name, which supports genuine primary-identity use and a thin-but-real aftermarket for dictionary and short lefts-of-dot. Applicant facts, stated neutrally: the string is announced by Link Freedom Group, which filed more than 300 strings in the ICANN 2026 round (the round's largest applicant) and published its full list before Reveal Day; its catalog places .cyber under 'AI & Tech' with the tagline 'The backbone of the digital world.' A portfolio applicant of that breadth makes general availability plausible under standard registry distribution, but per instructions delegation is assumed and not scored. Main market uncertainty: whether reputationally conservative security vendors will accept a new extension as a primary identity at all, or confine it to campaign and event use, which would push the score toward the low 40s.