.island

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

Places
applicants
  • Vant NexusAnnounced
on the record since Sep 8, 2026 · updated Sep 8, 2026
AI score
34/ 100
Usable but limited

A niche TLD for island resorts, tourism boards, ferry and charter operators, real-estate agents, and lifestyle brands marketing a specific island; secondarily hobby and community sites for island residents.

assessed by claude-fable-5-1 · Sep 8, 2026
AI score 34 of 100. .com scores 96, .ai scores 84.
who it’s for

island resorts, tourism boards, ferry and charter operators, real-estate agents, and lifestyle brands marketing a specific island; secondarily hobby and community sites for island residents

PlacesCommerceCultureBrand
applicants
1 on file
Vant NexusAnnounced
Sep 8, 2026

Announced by Vant Nexus Technologies LLC on its own site alongside .PORTAL and .TRUCK. First-party, post-filing claim.

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.

.townstrong parallel
delegated 2014 · live33,038 domains · May 2026

Same bet: a small, generic place-type noun run as an open registry for the entities that literally are one, with local businesses, tourism bodies and residents putting geographic identity on the right-hand side at community scale rather than mass commercial volume.

uncontested · scored 35* in 2012 · run by Koko Moon, LLC

.citystrong parallel
delegated 2014 · live34,083 domains · May 2026

Also a bare settlement/place-category noun whose value depends on place-based organizations adopting their own geography as their namespace, differing from the target mainly in the size of the eligible population, not in the kind of word or the kind of buyer.

3 applicants contested it · scored 55* in 2012 · run by Snow Sky, LLC

.landmoderate
delegated 2013 · live22,524 domains · May 2026

The same generic landform-noun bet usable both as literal geography and as a compound suffix for coined destination names, though it skews further toward playful suffix wordplay than toward a real community's self-description.

uncontested · scored 45* in 2012 · run by Pine Moon, LLC

* 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
  1. Vant Nexus · first recordedSep 8, 2026
    Vant Nexus Technologies LLC
news & sources
AnnouncementVant Nexus has applied to ICANN for the .PORTAL, .ISLAND, and .TRUCK gTLDs
Sep 8, 2026
Vant Nexus Technologies LLC has applied to ICANN for the .PORTAL, .ISLAND, and .TRUCK gTLDs.
Vant Nexus Technologies LLC
about Vant Nexus
AnnouncementVant Nexus announces its ICANN 2026 applications for .PORTAL, .ISLAND and .TRUCK
Sep 8, 2026
Backed by financially strong shareholders with substantial resources and a solid capital base, Vant Nexus Technologies LLC has applied to ICANN for the .PORTAL, .ISLAND, and .TRUCK gTLDs.
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