.daily

Is .daily a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?

Culture
applicants
  • ArubaAnnounced
on the record since Sep 9, 2026 · updated Sep 9, 2026
AI score
35/ 100
Usable but limited

A niche TLD for newsletter and small media publishers, habit and routine app builders, and daily-deal or subscription shops wanting a "[brand].daily" style name.

assessed by claude-fable-5-1 · Sep 9, 2026
AI score 35 of 100. .com scores 96, .ai scores 84.
who it’s for

newsletter and small media publishers, habit and routine app builders, and daily-deal or subscription shops wanting a "[brand].daily" style name

CultureCommercetechBrand
applicants
1 on file
ArubaAnnounced
Sep 9, 2026

Aruba S.p.A. told Domain Name Wire it applied for 39 strings in the 2026 round 'as primary or replacement', listing .daily among them without saying which strings are primary. The claim is the applicant's own, post-filing, relayed by the publication. Founder ruling 2026-09-09: recorded as announced. First application for this string on the record.

closest 2012 bets
3 of 1,408

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.

.todaystrong parallel
delegated 2013 · live137,911 domains · May 2026

Same bet: an open, uncontrolled temporal English word with no fixed category — nobody's industry, nobody's community — sold on phrase-formation and a publishing/freshness connotation, so it works only if registrants supply the meaning the string itself withholds.

uncontested · scored 45* in 2012 · run by Pearl Woods, LLC

.daystrong parallel
delegated 2014 · live12,841 domains · May 2026

Also a bare time-word registry play whose buyer is diffuse and self-defined rather than a trade or a brand, betting that the calendar vocabulary reads as evocative enough to carry a primary identity.

uncontested · scored 15* in 2012 · run by Charleston Road Registry Inc.

.nowmoderate
delegated 2016 · live26,795 domains · May 2026

The same immediacy-adverb wager — short, generic, category-free, monetized by suggestion rather than by owning a defined vertical — though it leans on urgency where .daily leans on recurrence and the newspaper echo.

6 applicants contested it · scored 28* in 2012 · run by Amazon EU S.à r.l.

* A separate 2012-only read, time-locked to what was public that year. Different scale from this page’s score, so the two are not comparable.

history
news & sources
AnnouncementExclusive: Aruba applies for 39 top level domain strings
Sep 9, 2026
Aruba S.p.A., which operates the .cloud top level domain, is expanding its domain portfolio. The company told Domain Name Wire that it applied for 39 top level domains in this year's new TLD round. That number includes replacement strings. [...] The company applied for the following strings as primary or replacement: aid, all, ask, beta, bit, bnb, cart, ciao, daily, demo, easy, fix, gaming, gen, genius, gym, happy, hello, hola, human, kit, lab, mars, max, moon, omg, pec, pop, rem, roma, sign, sito, super, tag, tex, vps, yes, zen, zzz
Domain Name Wire (Andrew Allemann), quoting Aruba S.p.A.
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