.league
Is .league a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.league is not contested. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. It is Identity Digital. XYZ named .league as a backup string for its .beach application. ICANN deactivated it, because another applicant applied for the same string or named it as a backup.
A natural suffix for sports, fantasy and esports leagues, but most will keep their .com or .gg; demand stays small and resale thin.
amateur and semi-pro sports league organizers, fantasy-sports commissioners, esports and gaming league operators, and recreational club networks wanting a name that reads as "the X league"
Named on the ICANN gTLD application list, 7 October 2026 as a replacement (backup) string of the applicant's .beach application, shown as deactivated: another applicant applied for the same string or named it as a backup
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 generic noun for an organizational unit rather than a topic, sold to any self-organized competitive or working group that would put its own name in front of the structural word it already calls itself.
Also an institutional-form noun that membership bodies adopt as their own suffix, but it was pitched as an everything-string for any affiliation, so the buyer is much broader than an organized competition.
Same vertical and the same reliance on sport bodies and fans choosing a generic over a brand, but it is the category label for the subject matter, while a league is the governing entity inside it.
What a .league domain is
.league is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under Culture. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list.
Is the .league domain extension real yet?
.league is not yet a domain extension you can register: nothing resolves under it, and no registrar sells names in it. It is a string applicants have put forward in the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, the process that decides whether it becomes one.
When can you buy a .league domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .league name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .league was .team, delegated on 16 April 2015.
Is .league a real TLD?
Not yet. .league is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .league is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- Band chosen: 30-49, usable but limited. The string is a real, generic English word that composes naturally as a suffix (a town name, a sport, a game title, or a season word in front of .league reads as a complete identity), and there is a durable buyer group of recreational sports leagues, fantasy leagues, and esports/gaming leagues that renews season after season rather than around one event. The applicant on the record, Identity Digital, is an operator of an existing portfolio that includes sport- and group-themed strings, which by analogy suggests ordinary registrar distribution and sustained availability rather than a vanity launch. It is not in the 50-69 band because, by analogy with existing sport- and group-themed TLDs (.team, .club, .football, .soccer, .hockey and similar — exact outcomes unknown, analogy flagged), primary-identity use in this family has tended to be a minority pattern: organizers mostly default to .com or .org, esports leagues have a strong incumbent habit around .gg, and the most valuable 'X.league' strings collide with well-known professional league trademarks, which caps the aftermarket. It is not in the 10-29 band because the demand is not event-driven or joke-driven; there are many thousands of small leagues worldwide and the word is unambiguous, so registrations at volume on price are plausible and some will be genuine primary identities. Main market uncertainty: whether esports and gaming leagues, the one segment with growth and online-first identity, adopt a .league address as a primary identity or stay inside the .gg and platform-page habit; if they adopt, the string climbs toward the top of its band, if not it sits near the bottom.