.park
Is .park a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.park is not contested. One applicant has said publicly that it applied to run it, and nobody else has, as of 15 August 2026. It is Link Freedom Group.
A pleasant everyday word with scattered uses, parking apps, city parks, outdoor brands, but few serious projects would lead with it.
parking and mobility startups, municipal parks and recreation departments, outdoor-lifestyle and campground brands, and real-estate developments that use 'park' in their name (office parks, RV parks, trailer parks)
In LFG's published list of 300+ strings submitted before the ICANN window closed on 2026-08-12. Their catalog tagline: “Touch grass.”
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: an everyday physical-outdoor-space noun sold as an open generic, where value rests on suffix charm and broad small-business/hobbyist appeal rather than on an organized industry that must have the string.
Same bet with a nearly identical registrant pool - operators of physical destination facilities (campgrounds, RV parks, retreats) plus metaphorical branding uses - a short common noun that has to earn its keep from scattered SMB operators, not a defined vertical.
Same bet as a short, compoundable common noun for a piece of ground whose commercial use is mostly playful X.land branding plus real-estate/development uses, i.e. value from flexibility rather than from a constituency that owns the word.
What a .park domain is
.park is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under Places. One applicant has said publicly that it applied for .park.
Is the .park domain extension real yet?
.park 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 .park domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .park name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .park was .garden, delegated on .
Is .park a real TLD?
Not yet. .park is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because an applicant said publicly that it applied for .park in the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round. Every claim on this page links to its source.
- Link Freedom Group · first recordedLink Freedom Group
“.park · Lifestyle · “Touch grass.””Link Freedom Group
“LFG voluntarily published its full list of submissions ahead of ICANN’s official Reveal Day.”PR Newswire (Link Freedom Group)
“Top level domain registry Link Freedom Group (LFG) has disclosed more than 300 strings submitted as part of the ICANN new top level domain name program.”Domain Name Wire (Andrew Allemann)
- Band chosen: 30-49, usable but limited. It sits above the 10-29 vanity band because 'park' is a common noun with genuinely distinct commercial constituencies: the parking-mobility sector, municipal and national parks, and the many venues and developments whose names literally end in 'park', so name.park reads as a natural sentence-completion rather than a gimmick. It falls below the 50-69 strong-niche band because none of those constituencies shows signs of converging on a shared naming convention: cities overwhelmingly stay on their established civic domains, parking companies brand around their app names, and property developments treat the web address as an afterthought, so demand is likely to stay scattered and price-driven rather than identity-driven over the next 5 years. By analogy (flagged as analogy), single-word activity and place TLDs from the earlier new-gTLD wave tended to settle into low-volume registration bases with thin aftermarkets and only occasional primary-identity use, and .park has no obvious mechanism to break that pattern. The applicant, Link Freedom Group, filed more than 300 strings in the ICANN 2026 round and lists this one under 'Lifestyle' with the tagline 'Touch grass.', which suggests a broad-portfolio consumer positioning rather than a targeted industry play; that positioning makes coordinated category adoption less likely, though a portfolio operator can still sustain retail distribution. Main market uncertainty: whether the parking-mobility industry, the one constituency with real money and a naming problem, adopts brand.park as a convention or keeps branding around app names on mainstream TLDs.