.hike
Is .hike a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody has applied for .hike in its own right, as of 7 October 2026. NextGEN TLDs GmbH named .hike as the replacement string of its .inn application.
A hobby word for trail and outdoor projects; memorable, but most will keep their main address elsewhere.
trail guides, outdoor clubs, hiking-gear shops and trip-planning apps who want an obviously outdoorsy address as a side door rather than their main brand
No applications recorded for this TLD yet.
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 bare outdoor-pursuit word nobody can own, sold to the guides, gear sellers, destinations and clubs whose primary identity IS the activity, and dependent on enthusiasts self-identifying by the sport rather than on any brand pulling the string behind it.
Also an activity-as-identity string where the verb and the community name are the same word, monetized by lifestyle/gear/instruction businesses and content, so it works only if participants treat the pursuit as a label they'd put on their front door.
The same diffuse participation-hobby bet — enthusiasts, outfitters, guides and content with no corporate claimant — but in gerund form and skewed to a licence-and-tackle commercial base, so the buyer mix is a step further from a pure trail-and-apparel registry.
What a .hike domain is
.hike is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under Culture. Nobody has applied for .hike in its own right. It is named on ICANN’s list as part of an application for another string.
Is the .hike domain extension real yet?
.hike is not yet a domain extension you can register: nothing resolves under it, and no registrar sells names in it. Nobody has applied for it on the public record; the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round is the process that would decide whether it becomes one.
When can you buy a .hike domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .hike name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .hike was .ski, delegated on 30 May 2015.
Is .hike a real TLD?
Not yet. .hike is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because ICANN’s list names .hike as part of an application for another string. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- NextGEN TLDs GmbH · first recordedICANN
“NTG2671T-T37544 · NextGEN TLDs GmbH · replacement string of .inn”ICANN
“GEL2647T-T15541 · Glass Emotion, LLC · primary · contention set 2026-116 NSL2674T-T66583 · NAME SPACE LLC · primary · contention set 2026-116 NTG2671T-T35907 · NextGEN TLDs GmbH · replacement string of .tkns · Deactivated XL2625T-T36661 · XYZ.COM LLC · replacement string of .dao · Deactivated”ICANN
- Band chosen: 10-29 (vanity/narrow), upper end. .hike is a single-activity dictionary word, and by analogy (flagged as analogy) activity TLDs from the 2012 round such as .bike, .ski, .surf, .golf, .yoga and .fishing settled into small hobbyist and defensive registration bases with little sign of serious businesses adopting them as primary identity; outdoor retailers, trail apps and tourism boards have largely stayed on .com or country codes. It is not in the 30-49 band because there is no sign of volume-on-price demand or of a brand signal strong enough to support an aftermarket, and the string has a second English sense (a price hike) that dilutes the outdoor meaning for some buyers. It is not in the 1-9 band because hiking is a large, durable global pastime with real clubs, guides, gear sellers and park tourism, so a steady trickle of genuine registrations and some memorable one-word uses (a trail name, a club, a campaign) is likely over the next 5 years. On the record, one application exists, from NextGEN TLDs GmbH, filed as a standard (non-brand, non-community, non-geographic) application and recorded as a replacement string of .inn, with no contention recorded; this is stated neutrally and used only to note that, by analogy, a single-applicant standard string of this kind tends to be sold as a general-availability hobby namespace through registrar channels. Main market uncertainty: whether any sizeable outdoor-recreation brand, trail-mapping app or tourism agency adopts .hike as its main address, which is the one thing that tends to lift an activity TLD above hobby status; counts, prices and launch figures are unknown.