.easy
Is .easy a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.easy is contested: 3 applications for it are on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. They are Aruba, easyGroup and Link Freedom Group. GoDaddy Registry named .easy as a backup string for its .mix application. ICANN deactivated it, because another applicant applied for the same string or named it as a backup. Intercap named .easy as a backup string for its .cart 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 three already run TLDs, 552K names between them. easyGroup and Link Freedom Group run none.
Will names sell?
A catchy adjective ending for slogan-style names, but few serious projects would make it their main address over the next 5 years.
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. .easy’s closest 2012 strings hold .fast 2K, .smart 51 and .best 54K.
The nearest 2012 strings, and how many names each holds today
The closest 2012 string, .fast, held 2,447 names, June 2026. .smart held 51; .best held 54,475. Chosen by AI from every string in the 2012 round, without being told what happened to any of them.
Same bet: a bare quality-adjective with no category behind it, sold as a promise-suffix any service brand bolts onto a verb or product name, which only works if registrants want the attribute claim more than a descriptive noun.
Also an attribute adjective marketed as a capability claim rather than a category, with the same dependency on brands wanting to assert a product virtue in the extension itself, though it carries a tech slant .easy lacks.
Another contentless evaluative adjective whose value rests entirely on the boast rather than on a defined registrant pool, so it faces the identical question of whether anyone puts primary identity on an adjective.
Where they meet elsewhere
Link Freedom Group and GoDaddy Registry face each other in 32 contests this round, .easy included.
- Link Freedom Group × GoDaddy Registry
- Link Freedom Group × Intercap
- GoDaddy Registry × Intercap
- Link Freedom Group × Aruba
- GoDaddy Registry × Aruba
marketers, consumer startups, and product teams wanting a slogan-style name (something like 'made.easy' or 'pay.easy'), plus domain speculators betting on short generic pairings
What a .easy domain is
.easy is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, in our Brand category. 3 applications for it are on ICANN’s Reveal Day list.
Is the .easy domain extension real yet?
.easy 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 .easy domain?
You can’t yet. A .easy 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 .easy was .fast, delegated on 5 December 2015.
Is .easy a real TLD?
Not yet. .easy is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .easy is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- 2 applicants · first recordedICANN
- 3 applicants · now confirmedICANN
- Aruba · first recordedDomain Name Wire (Andrew Allemann), quoting Aruba S.p.A.
- easyGroup · first recordedeasyGroup Ltd
- Link Freedom Group · first recordedLink Freedom Group
The source’s 5 linesHide the lines
APEC2611T-T11013 · Aruba PEC S.P.A. · primary · contention set 2026-72 EL2675T-T54882 · easyGroup Limited · primary · contention set 2026-72 IRI2679T-T44455 · Intercap Registry Inc. · replacement string of .cart · Deactivated LFGL2683T-T57519 · Link Freedom Group Ltd · primary · contention set 2026-72 NA2631T-T79397 · Registry Services, LLC · replacement string of .mix · Deactivated
“APEC2611T-T11013 · Aruba PEC S.P.A. · primary · contention set 2026-72 EL2675T-T54882 · easyGroup Limited · primary · contention set 2026-72 LFGL2683T-T57519 · Link Freedom Group Ltd · primary · contention set 2026-72”ICANN
“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.
“easyGroup Ltd ... today announced that it has submitted an application to ICANN for the .easy top-level domain (TLD) as part of the New gTLD Program 2026 Round.”easyGroup Ltd
“.easy · Lifestyle · “Instantly clear, no confusion.””Link Freedom Group
- Band chosen: usable but limited (30-49). .easy is a generic English adjective string whose natural use is completing a phrase rather than naming an entity, which historically maps to promotional, price-driven registration behavior rather than primary-identity adoption. By analogy (flagged as analogy), adjective and superlative TLDs such as .cool, .best, .fun and .top have seen registration volume when discounted but thin sustained renewal-quality demand and weak aftermarkets, and most serious brands treated them as redirects or campaign pages rather than primary identities. .easy is not in the band above (strong niche, 50-69) because there is no coherent category where it would be the expected default; 'easy' modifies almost anything, so it anchors nowhere, and adoption would need explaining in nearly every context. It is not in the band below (10-29 vanity/joke) because the word is universally understood, positive, and short, so left-of-dot pairings can produce genuinely memorable marketing names, and some real commercial use for campaign and product microsites is plausible within 5 years. The applicant, Link Freedom Group, filed more than 300 strings in the ICANN 2026 round and lists .easy under 'Lifestyle' with the tagline 'Instantly clear, no confusion.'; a large-portfolio applicant strategy suggests broad namespace plays rather than a single anchor community, which tempers expectations of concentrated category cultivation, stated neutrally. Main market uncertainty: whether phrase-completion demand ('X made easy' positioning) translates into paid, renewed registrations at meaningful scale or stays a campaign-page novelty; pricing strategy is unknown and would heavily shape volume.