.cygames
Is .cygames a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.cygames is not contested. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. It is Cygames, Inc..
A single-company brand address: useful only to the applicant itself, with no public registrations and no resale market.
the applicant company and its own game, studio and campaign properties; not open to third-party registrants
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 exactly: a Japanese game developer-publisher putting its own corporate name on a TLD, where the string carries no meaning or traffic beyond the company's existing fan-facing brand equity.
Same bet: a Japanese mobile/social-games company claiming its short coined corporate name, worth something only to the one applicant whose players already recognize it.
Same gaming-identity dot-brand bet aimed at players rather than a category, but it is a consumer platform brand rather than the developer's corporate name, so the entity putting its primary identity on it differs.
What a .cygames domain is
.cygames is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under Brand. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list.
Is the .cygames domain extension real yet?
.cygames 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 .cygames domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .cygames name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens.
Is .cygames a real TLD?
Not yet. .cygames is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .cygames is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- Cygames, Inc. · first recordedICANN
- Band chosen: 10-29 (vanity/narrow). The string is a company name, and the record shows a single application by Cygames, Inc. with no category tag; this is the profile of a closed dot-brand, where the only realistic registrant is the brand owner. It is not in the 30-49 band because there is no volume or price-driven registration market at all and no aftermarket, which are the defining traits of that band. It is not in the 1-9 band because, by analogy with other closed brand TLDs, the namespace has genuine primary-identity utility to its owner (a game studio could run titles, event sites and support portals under its own suffix, and a brand suffix carries a built-in authenticity signal against phishing lookalikes). Analogy, flagged as such: among earlier-round brand TLDs, outcomes split between active use as a primary web identity and quiet non-use followed by retirement, and the string itself does not predict which. The main market uncertainty is whether the owner will migrate flagship titles or fan-facing properties onto the suffix, or hold it defensively; within 5 years that single choice determines whether the address has any public visibility. Resale value is effectively nil regardless, since names cannot be sold to outsiders.