.platform
Is .platform a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.platform is contested: 3 applications for it are on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. They are Identity Digital, Intercap and Radix. Link Freedom Group named .platform as a backup string for its .agentic 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
Three of the three already run TLDs, 25.24M names between them. Two run one of .platform's closest 2012 strings: Identity Digital .solutions and Identity Digital .systems.
Will names sell?
A sensible label for software platforms, but long and generic; most builders will still pick shorter tech endings first.
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. .platform’s closest 2012 strings hold .cloud 552K, .solutions 107K and .systems 45K.
The nearest 2012 strings, and how many names each holds today
The closest 2012 string, .cloud, held 551,867 names, June 2026. .solutions held 106,975; .systems held 44,956. Chosen by AI from every string in the 2012 round, without being told what happened to any of them.
Same bet: an abstract tech-architecture buzzword that companies adopt as a self-description ("we are a cloud/platform"), sold as primary identity to software vendors, with value resting entirely on the term staying in vogue rather than on any verifiable category membership.
Same bet in the B2B-vagueness family: an unverifiable business-abstraction noun any vendor can claim, monetized as a name suffix for companies that want to sound like infrastructure rather than a specific product.
Same bet as a generic technical-infrastructure descriptor used as a corporate identity suffix, appealing to the same buyer (a software/infra company naming itself after what it claims to be), though it reads as legacy IT where .platform reads as modern SaaS.
Where they meet elsewhere
Identity Digital and Link Freedom Group face each other in 68 contests this round, .platform included.
- Identity Digital × Link Freedom Group
- Identity Digital × Radix
- Identity Digital × Intercap
- Link Freedom Group × Intercap
- Link Freedom Group × Radix
developer-tool, SaaS, and infrastructure companies that literally call their product a platform, plus internal-platform and platform-engineering teams wanting a descriptive project address.
What a .platform domain is
.platform is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, in our Infrastructure category. 3 applications for it are on ICANN’s Reveal Day list.
Is the .platform domain extension real yet?
.platform 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 .platform domain?
You can’t yet. A .platform 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 .platform was .cloud, delegated on 26 June 2015.
Is .platform a real TLD?
Not yet. .platform is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .platform is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
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IRI2679T-T25468 · Intercap Registry Inc. · primary · contention set 2026-182 LFGL2683T-T42435 · Link Freedom Group Ltd · replacement string of .agentic · Deactivated OD2692T-T39927 · Oyster Dream, LLC · primary · contention set 2026-182 RTIS2674T-T31383 · Radix Technologies Inc SEZC · primary · contention set 2026-182
“IRI2679T-T25468 · Intercap Registry Inc. · primary · contention set 2026-182 OD2692T-T39927 · Oyster Dream, LLC · primary · contention set 2026-182 RTIS2674T-T31383 · Radix Technologies Inc SEZC · primary · contention set 2026-182”ICANN
“Radix has applied for these TLDs; we do not own or operate them today.”Radix
“.platform · Infra · “The ground floor innovation.””Link Freedom Group
- Band: usable but limited (30-49). The string is a real, high-frequency industry noun, and 'name.platform' parses naturally for developer-tool and SaaS products, so registrations at some volume are plausible over the next 5 years. It is not in the strong-niche band (50-69) because, by analogy with other descriptive tech generics such as .systems, .network, and .solutions, these endings tend to see defensive and secondary-project registrations rather than sustained primary-identity use, and the eight-character length plus crowded competition from established tech endings (.dev, .io, .cloud, .app, by analogy) leaves it a second choice rather than a default anywhere. It is above the vanity band (10-29) because the word is squarely descriptive of a large, durable software category (platform engineering, PaaS, marketplace platforms), not a joke or event-driven string, and some serious teams could plausibly adopt it as a primary identity for platform-branded products. The applicant, Link Freedom Group, filed more than 300 strings in the ICANN 2026 round and lists this one under category 'Infra' with the tagline 'The ground floor innovation.'; a large-portfolio applicant profile suggests broad generic distribution rather than a single-string community push, which I read neutrally as volume-oriented adoption dynamics. Main market uncertainty: whether the platform-engineering wave makes 'x.platform' a fashionable project identity among developers, or whether the length keeps it purely descriptive and defensive; renewal and pricing behavior is unknown.