.ity
Is .ity a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody has applied for .ity in its own right, as of 7 October 2026. XYZ named .ity as the replacement string of its .brand application.
A suffix hack TLD: fun for names like secur.ity or commun.ity, but few serious projects will make it their main address.
startups, side projects and marketing campaigns that want a domain hack ending in -ity (identity, security, community, quality, city), plus hack collectors
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 bare word-ending with no category meaning of its own, so every registration has to be a left-of-dot completion (fast.est, b.est / secur.ity, qual.ity), and the registry's revenue depends on how many English words happen to terminate that way rather than on any vertical of buyers.
Also sold as a word-completer (sh.are, c.are, squ.are) with the same dependence on clever constructions, but it is a standalone English verb, so it carries a little meaning of its own that a pure suffix like .ity does not.
A function-word string whose only commercial use is finishing someone else's word (br.and, isl.and, l.and), the same grammar-fragment wager, though a three-letter conjunction reads as a connector in a brand phrase in a way a suffix cannot.
What a .ity domain is
.ity 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 .ity in its own right. It is named on ICANN’s list as part of an application for another string.
Is the .ity domain extension real yet?
.ity 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 .ity domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .ity name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens.
Is .ity a real TLD?
Not yet. .ity is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because ICANN’s list names .ity as part of an application for another string. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- XYZ · first recordedICANN
- Band chosen: vanity/joke/narrow (10-29). .ity has no meaning on its own; its whole appeal is as the tail of English words (ident.ity, secur.ity, commun.ity, real.ity, c.ity), which makes it a domain-hack namespace rather than a category namespace. By analogy (flagged as analogy), suffix and hack TLDs such as .ing and the ccTLD .ly have produced memorable one-off names and some aftermarket interest for the handful of strong word completions, but have not become a primary identity that serious projects choose by default; demand concentrates in a short list of dictionary completions and then thins out sharply. It is not in the band above (usable but limited, 30-49) because there is no obvious volume or price-driven registration base beyond the hack words themselves, and the brand signal of a -ity hack is novelty, not credibility. It is not in the band below (1-9) because real buyers exist: the best completions (security, identity, community, city) map onto large product categories, and a name like ident.ity is genuinely memorable, so a thin but real market is likely over the next 5 years. Applicant facts on the record: the sole application is from XYZ.COM LLC, recorded as a replacement string for a primary .brand application, standard type, contention count 0; an operator with an existing portfolio of generic TLDs makes retail availability through mainstream registrars plausible, which supports adoption likelihood but does not change what the string is. Main market uncertainty: whether any of the strong hack words (secur.ity, ident.ity, commun.ity) gets adopted as a primary identity by a visible company, which is what would pull the string from novelty toward a usable niche.