.mmm
Is .mmm a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.mmm is not contested. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. It is Link Freedom Group. XYZ Registry named .mmm as a backup string for its .wealth application. ICANN deactivated it, because another applicant applied for the same string or named it as a backup. Suffix named .mmm as a backup string for its .device application. ICANN deactivated it, because another applicant applied for the same string or named it as a backup. Name Space named .mmm as a backup string for its .aura 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
One of the 4 is tied to a registry that runs TLDs today. Link Freedom Group, XYZ Registry and Suffix filed 321 applications between them across the round.
Will names sell?
A playful 'yum' sound as a web ending; fun for food and lifestyle brands, but few serious projects would make it their main 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. .mmm’s closest 2012 strings hold .ooo 14K, .xyz 9.15M and .wow 2.
The nearest 2012 strings, and how many names each holds today
The closest 2012 string, .ooo, held 14,213 names, June 2026. .xyz held 9,153,912; .wow held 2. Chosen by AI from every string in the 2012 round, without being told what happened to any of them.
Same bet: a semantics-free repeated-letter string with no dictionary meaning, sold as a short, phonetically memorable open namespace where every registrant supplies the meaning rather than inheriting it from the word.
Same bet on deliberate emptiness — a placeholder string whose value is short, universal, category-free availability rather than any topical fit, betting that a blank label plus marketing can win primary identity.
Same bet on an interjection: a three-letter vocal sound rather than a noun, monetized by registrants who want an emotive/tasty exclamation as their identity, which only works if the sound reads instantly the same way across languages.
Where they meet elsewhere
XYZ Registry and Link Freedom Group face each other in 49 contests this round, .mmm included.
- Link Freedom Group × XYZ Registry
- Link Freedom Group × Suffix
- Link Freedom Group × Name Space
- XYZ Registry × Suffix
- XYZ Registry × Name Space
food, snack, and lifestyle brands wanting a playful vanity domain, plus novelty registrants and speculators drawn to a memorable repeated-letter string
What a .mmm domain is
.mmm is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, in our Culture category. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list.
Is the .mmm domain extension real yet?
.mmm 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 .mmm domain?
You can’t yet. A .mmm 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 .mmm was .ooo, delegated on 16 August 2014.
Is .mmm a real TLD?
Not yet. .mmm is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .mmm is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- 3 applicants · first recordedICANN
- Link Freedom Group · now confirmedICANN
- Link Freedom Group · first recordedLink Freedom Group
“LFGL2683T-T73232 · Link Freedom Group Ltd · primary”ICANN
The source’s 4 linesHide the lines
LFGL2683T-T73232 · Link Freedom Group Ltd · primary NSL2674T-T26234 · NAME SPACE LLC · replacement string of .aura · Deactivated SI2639T-T14041 · Suffix Inc. · replacement string of .device · Deactivated XL2625T-T89832 · XYZ.COM LLC · replacement string of .wealth · Deactivated
“.mmm · Infra · “Open to interpretation, yours to define.””Link Freedom Group
- Band chosen: 10-29 (vanity/joke/narrow). The string 'mmm' reads as an interjection of pleasure, most naturally food-adjacent, which gives it memorability but a thin serious-use case. It is not in the 30-49 band because, judging by analogy to prior repeated-letter and interjection TLDs, such strings have tended to attract novelty and price-driven registrations rather than sustained volume, and nothing in the verified facts suggests a distribution or pricing engine that would drive volume here (that is an analogy-based inference). It is not in the 1-9 band because the yum association gives food, snack, and lifestyle marketers a plausible playful hook for campaign or vanity use, so a small real market likely exists over the next 5 years. The applicant's own catalog files it under 'Infra' with the tagline 'Open to interpretation, yours to define.', which signals an undefined positioning rather than a targeted vertical; the applicant, Link Freedom Group, filed more than 300 strings in the 2026 round, so per-string marketing attention may be spread thin (stated neutrally, informing adoption likelihood only). Main market uncertainty: whether any food-and-beverage or consumer-brand marketing niche adopts .mmm for campaigns at meaningful scale, or whether it stays a pure novelty string with event-driven demand.