.kart
Is .kart a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody has applied for .kart in its own right, as of 7 October 2026. GoDaddy Registry named .kart as the replacement string of its .cart application.
A narrow hobby string: karting tracks and teams might use it, but most buyers will read it as a misspelled .cart.
go-kart tracks, racing teams and kart makers, plus a small secondary pool in markets where "kart" means card or map (Turkish, Nordic languages)
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.
Both are recreational-vehicle category nouns rather than sport-sector words, so the same bet holds: the primary registrants are the machine's dealers, builders, parts sellers and owner clubs, and the string only works if that hobby's commerce layer is big enough to want its own namespace.
Same bet as a narrow participatory-sport noun with a tiny, self-identifying registrant universe (venues, event series, competitors) where the string is the community's own word for the activity, not a broad market category.
The venue-led version of the same bet: a one-activity noun whose demand comes from the places you go to do it plus the gear trade around it, a karting track standing in for a resort, with no corporate or category-aggregator buyer underneath.
What a .kart domain is
.kart 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 .kart in its own right. It is named on ICANN’s list as part of an application for another string.
Is the .kart domain extension real yet?
.kart 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 .kart domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .kart name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .kart was .motorcycles, delegated on 22 May 2014.
Is .kart a real TLD?
Not yet. .kart is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because ICANN’s list names .kart as part of an application for another string. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- GoDaddy Registry · first recordedICANN
“NA2631T-T13154 · Registry Services, LLC · replacement string of .cart”ICANN
“LFGL2683T-T82030 · Link Freedom Group Ltd · primary NA2631T-T80151 · Registry Services, LLC · replacement string of .all · Deactivated”ICANN
- Band chosen: 10-29 (vanity/narrow). On the record .kart is GoDaddy Registry's replacement string for a standard application whose primary string is .cart, with no contention and no category tag; scored as if delegated and generally available. The English meaning is go-karting, a real but small leisure and motorsport vertical whose venues and teams already have identities on legacy TLDs; the string's second life is as a k-for-c respelling of 'cart', which is unlikely to be chosen as a primary identity by a serious retail or checkout project when it reads as a typo. In Turkish 'kart' means card and in Norwegian it means map, which gives a thin multilingual tail of defensive and local registrations but no coherent category. Not the band above (30-49): there is no buyer group that would register at volume or on price alone, so the aftermarket would be thin and the brand signal weak-to-confusing. Not the band below (1-9): karting is a genuine global hobby and sport with clubs, tracks and manufacturers, and the multilingual meanings add real if small utility, so a market exists. Analogy (flagged): single-hobby vertical TLDs from the 2012 round such as .bike and .fish found modest, sustained but small registration bases and little aftermarket; .kart would likely sit at or below those, since its hobby is smaller and its spelling collides with a more natural string. Main market uncertainty: whether a registrar channel positions .kart as a cheap-tier e-commerce or 'card' string in Turkish or Nordic markets and attracts volume there, which would lift it toward the usable-but-limited band.