.ics
Is .ics a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody has applied for .ics in its own right, as of 7 October 2026. Infinite Computer Solutions named .ics as the replacement string of its .infinite application.
A three-letter acronym with no single clear meaning; useful to one company and a few acronym matches, not a market.
the applicant's own corporate identity first, then organisations whose initials happen to be ICS (industrial control systems vendors, calendar-tooling projects) looking for a short acronym match
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: a three-letter technical file-extension acronym turned into a namespace, where the value rests on practitioners and software already recognising the extension rather than on any consumer meaning of the letters.
Also a file-format extension used as a TLD, betting that a format's name carries identity for the tools and files built around it — though it is a format with one obvious steward, where an extension like this has a more diffuse constituency.
Same bet in acronym form: a short technical initialism that reads as a generic product/standards category to the industry and as meaningless letters to everyone else, so its primary registrants would be vendors and integrators in that niche, not a single owner of the letters.
What a .ics domain is
.ics is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under Brand. Nobody has applied for .ics in its own right. It is named on ICANN’s list as part of an application for another string.
Is the .ics domain extension real yet?
.ics 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 .ics domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .ics name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens.
Is .ics a real TLD?
Not yet. .ics is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because ICANN’s list names .ics as part of an application for another string. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- Infinite Computer Solutions · first recordedICANN
“ICSI2664T-T49479 · INFINITE COMPUTER SOLUTIONS, INC · replacement string of .infinite”ICANN
- Band chosen: 10-29 (vanity/narrow). The record shows .ics as a replacement string for a primary .infinite application by INFINITE COMPUTER SOLUTIONS, INC, filed as a standard (not brand) application, so the string reads as a company acronym rather than a generic word. As a string, 'ics' carries several loose associations (a calendar file format, industrial control systems, and various organisations with those initials) but no dominant category meaning that a buyer would adopt without explanation. By analogy with other short-acronym gTLDs from the earlier round that drew mainly acronym-match registrants (flagged as analogy), demand tends to be thin, event-driven at launch, and rarely a serious primary identity for projects outside the acronym match. It is not in the 30-49 band because there is no evident volume or price-driven registration engine and no brand signal to a general audience; it is above the 1-9 band because a recognisable acronym does give a handful of organisations a credible reason to register, and the applicant itself has a plausible primary use. Main market uncertainty: whether the operator runs it as an open namespace priced to attract acronym-match registrants, or holds it effectively closed for its own use, which bounds the aftermarket at near zero either way but changes whether any third-party registrations happen at all.