.daily
Is .daily a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.daily is not contested. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. It is Identity Digital. XYZ Registry named .daily as a backup string for its .omg application. ICANN deactivated it, because another applicant applied for the same string or named it as a backup. GoDaddy Registry named .daily as a backup string for its .fresh application. ICANN deactivated it, because another applicant applied for the same string or named it as a backup. Infinite Computer Solutions named .daily as a backup string for its .advisor application. ICANN deactivated it, because another applicant applied for the same string or named it as a backup. Aruba named .daily as a backup string for its .easy application. ICANN deactivated it, because another applicant applied for the same string or named it as a backup.
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.
Who is applying, and how much each already runs
Four of the 5 are tied to a registry that runs TLDs today. Identity Digital, XYZ Registry and GoDaddy Registry filed 432 applications between them across the round.
The nearest 2012 strings, and how many names each holds today
The closest 2012 string, .today, held 135,011 names, June 2026. .day held 13,094; .now held 27,481. Chosen by AI from every string in the 2012 round, without being told what happened to any of them.
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.
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.
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.
newsletter and small media publishers, habit and routine app builders, and daily-deal or subscription shops wanting a "[brand].daily" style name
What a .daily domain is
.daily is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, in our Culture category. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list.
Is the .daily domain extension real yet?
.daily 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 .daily domain?
You can’t yet. A .daily 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 .daily was .today, delegated on 19 November 2013.
Is .daily a real TLD?
Not yet. .daily is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .daily is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- 3 applicants · first recordedICANN
- Aruba · now deactivated backupICANN
- Aruba · now abandonedICANN
- Identity Digital · first recordedICANN
- Aruba · first recordedDomain Name Wire (Andrew Allemann), quoting Aruba S.p.A.
The source’s 5 linesHide the lines
APEC2611T-T11013 · Aruba PEC S.P.A. · replacement string of .easy · Deactivated ASBL2626T-T32129 · Aabaco Small Business, LLC · replacement string of .advisor · Deactivated AT2680T-T74619 · Arctic Tan, LLC · primary NA2631T-T40427 · Registry Services, LLC · replacement string of .fresh · Deactivated XL2625T-T43072 · XYZ.COM LLC · replacement string of .omg · Deactivated
“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.
- Band chosen: 30-49 (usable but limited). The string is a common English word with a coherent use case — publication and newsletter identities ("the [x] daily"), habit/routine apps, daily deals and subscriptions — so it is more than a vanity string and registrations would plausibly occur at volume on price, which keeps it above the 10-29 band. It is not in the 50-69 band because there is no evidence of sustained primary-identity demand for this specific word as a suffix, and by analogy (flagged as analogy) comparable time/media words from the 2012 round such as .today and .news found modest, largely price-driven adoption with thin aftermarkets rather than becoming a default for publishers, who still gravitate to .com or platform-hosted addresses. Applicant context from the facts block: the applicant already operates .cloud, which the source says has over 500,000 registrations, so distribution through registrars is plausible, but that informs availability rather than demand for this word. Main market uncertainty: whether independent newsletter and media creators over the next 5 years treat a dedicated suffix as a credible primary identity at all, or continue to rely on platform subdomains and .com; if they do adopt suffixes, .daily competes directly with .news and .today for the same buyer.