.predict
Is .predict a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.predict is not contested. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. It is Domain Expert Partners LLC. Cam Connecting SARL named .predict as a backup string for its .max application. ICANN deactivated it, because another applicant applied for the same string or named it as a backup.
A catchy verb for forecasting and prediction-market projects, but most would use it as a second address, not the main one.
prediction-market platforms, forecasting and analytics startups, sports-tipping services and AI/ML tooling projects wanting a descriptive hack like name.predict
Named on the ICANN gTLD application list, 7 October 2026 as a replacement (backup) string of the applicant's .max 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 almost exactly: a one-syllable everyday verb for staking on an uncertain future outcome, owned by nobody and sold as an open imperative to a whole industry of operators who put a product name in front of it rather than their corporate identity on it.
The same structural wager — a bare transactive verb whose only value is the imperative URL it completes for decision-support and aggregator services, a word plenty of businesses will use as a call to action but almost none will adopt as their primary identity.
Same buyer and same premise that a technical inference discipline is big enough to rent its own namespace, but it is the generic label for the field rather than the act, so it sells credentials where a verb sells a promise.
What a .predict domain is
.predict is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under AI & tech. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list.
Is the .predict domain extension real yet?
.predict 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 .predict domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .predict name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .predict was .bet, delegated on 24 July 2015.
Is .predict a real TLD?
Not yet. .predict is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .predict 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 plain English verb with a clear, currently fashionable meaning: prediction markets, forecasting products, sports tipping, and the predict step in AI/ML pipelines all map onto it, so there is a real buyer group and it reads well as a verb hack (we.predict, markets.predict). It is not in the 50-69 band because, by analogy to other verb and descriptor strings from the 2012 round (.review, .watch, .click, .tips, .bet), such strings tend to pick up registrations on price and defensive interest rather than sustained primary-identity use, and their aftermarkets have been thin; a serious prediction-market or forecasting company is more likely to hold a .com or .io as its identity and point a .predict name at a product. It is not in the 10-29 band because demand is not purely event-driven or a joke: forecasting, betting-adjacent products and AI analytics are durable categories with ongoing new-project formation over the next 5 years, and the word is a credible brand component rather than a novelty. Applicant facts from the verified block, stated neutrally: one confirmed standard application from Domain Expert Partners LLC; a second application from Cam Connecting SARL is recorded as deactivated and was a replacement string for .max; contention count on the record is 1, so no contention is recorded. Main market uncertainty: whether prediction markets and consumer forecasting products keep growing as a mainstream category over the next 5 years (which would pull the string toward a category-niche identity) or stay a regulated, betting-adjacent niche whose operators prefer neutral names. Analogy-based inferences above are flagged as such; registration volumes and prices for comparable TLDs are unknown to me under the rules here.