.logistics
Is .logistics a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.logistics is contested: 2 applications for it are on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. They are XYZ Registry and Identity Digital. Link Freedom Group named .logistics as a backup string for its .robot application. ICANN deactivated it, because another applicant applied for the same string or named it as a backup.
Who is applying, and what they run today
Two of the three already run TLDs, 26.76M names between them. Three run one of .logistics's closest 2012 strings: Identity Digital .construction, Identity Digital .delivery and Identity Digital .engineering. Journey To The West runs none.
Will names sell?
A clear industry label logistics firms may use for campaigns or side sites, but few would make it their main web address.
Last round the AI scored the 2012 strings blind to their fate. Strings it scored 60 or more hold a median 27,168 names today; those under 30, a median of 30. .logistics’s closest 2012 strings hold .construction 10K, .engineering 11K and .delivery 14K.
The nearest 2012 strings, and how many names each holds today
The closest 2012 string, .construction, held 10,056 names, June 2026. .engineering held 11,436; .delivery held 14,125. Chosen by AI from every string in the 2012 round, without being told what happened to any of them.
Same bet: a long, unglamorous B2B trade-sector noun sold to firms in one industry as a sector-credibility badge, where nobody searches the string directly and every incumbent already sits on a .com.
Same bet: a multi-syllable professional-industry category word whose buyers are mid-size B2B service firms hoping the sector label reads as legitimacy rather than as marketing, with no consumer pull to carry volume.
Same operational goods-movement service category aimed at the same commercial buyer, but it is a short everyday verb-noun with consumer-facing appeal, so it plays as a marketing word in a way the trade-jargon target cannot.
Where they meet elsewhere
Identity Digital and XYZ Registry face each other in 77 contests this round, .logistics included.
- Identity Digital × XYZ Registry
- Identity Digital × Link Freedom Group
- XYZ Registry × Link Freedom Group
logistics and supply-chain businesses — freight forwarders, 3PLs, warehousing operators, and delivery startups — plus their marketing teams wanting a descriptive domain for a campaign or product line.
What a .logistics domain is
.logistics is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, in our Commerce category. 2 applications for it are on ICANN’s Reveal Day list.
Is the .logistics domain extension real yet?
.logistics 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 .logistics domain?
You can’t yet. A .logistics name can only be registered once the string is delegated (added to the DNS root) and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .logistics was .construction, delegated on 14 November 2013.
Is .logistics a real TLD?
Not yet. .logistics is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .logistics is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- Link Freedom Group · now deactivated backupICANN
- Journey To The West · now abandonedICANN
- Link Freedom Group · now abandonedICANN
- 2 applicants · first recordedICANN
- Journey To The West · first recordedJourney To The West Corporation
- Link Freedom Group · first recordedLink Freedom Group
“OD2692T-T16170 · Oyster Dream, LLC · primary · contention set 2026-140 XL2625T-T96368 · XYZ.COM LLC · primary · contention set 2026-140”ICANN
“LFGL2683T-T19307 · Link Freedom Group Ltd · replacement string of .robot · Deactivated OD2692T-T16170 · Oyster Dream, LLC · primary · contention set 2026-140 XL2625T-T96368 · XYZ.COM LLC · primary · contention set 2026-140”ICANN
“.logistics · Trade & Logistics · “The art of getting things where they need to be.””Journey To The West Corporation
“.logistics · Commerce · “Managing the moving parts.””Link Freedom Group
- Band chosen: 30-49 (usable but limited). The string is a long, descriptive B2B industry word. By analogy with other industry-vertical dictionary TLDs (trade and services strings such as construction- or shipping-style extensions), such namespaces have tended to attract modest registration volumes, mostly defensive or descriptive use, with primary-identity adoption rare because established firms in conservative B2B sectors keep their legacy .com identities — that pattern is an inference from analogy, not a verified figure. It is not in the 50-69 band because there is no sign, again by analogy, of sustained organic demand or genuine primary-identity culture around vertical B2B extensions; adoption would need explaining to customers and partners. It is not in the 10-29 band because logistics is a large, real commercial category with many small and mid-size operators, so the string has genuine descriptive utility, exact-match keyword value, and a plausible base of paid registrations rather than joke or event-driven demand. The applicant, Link Freedom Group, filed more than 300 strings in the ICANN 2026 round (the round's largest applicant per its published catalog, press-corroborated 2026-08-13) and lists this string under category Commerce with the tagline 'Managing the moving parts.'; a broad-portfolio operator suggests standardized registry marketing rather than deep vertical evangelism, which tempers adoption upside without changing the string's intrinsic fit. Main market uncertainty: whether the current wave of supply-chain and freight-tech startups treats vertical TLDs as credible brand identities over the next 5 years, or continues defaulting to .com/.io-style choices — that single behavioral shift is what would move this string up a band.