.quick
Is .quick a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody has applied for .quick in its own right, as of 7 October 2026. Starlight (Namecheap) named .quick as a backup string for its .mod application. ICANN deactivated it, because another applicant applied for the same string or named it as a backup. Link Freedom Group named .quick as a backup string for its .easy application. ICANN deactivated it, because another applicant applied for the same string or named it as a backup.
Nobody has applied for .quick in its own right.
Will names sell?
A catchy word for speed-themed names, but few serious businesses would make .quick 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. .quick’s closest 2012 strings hold .fast 2K, .now 27K and .express 9K.
The nearest 2012 strings, and how many names each holds today
The closest 2012 string, .fast, held 2,447 names, June 2026. .now held 27,481; .express held 8,967. Chosen by AI from every string in the 2012 round, without being told what happened to any of them.
A near-synonymous single-word English adjective sold as a service-promise suffix rather than a category, betting that any business whose differentiator is speed will re-anchor its primary identity on the adverbial claim itself.
Same bet on an immediacy adverb with no industry attached: value comes entirely from the sentence the whole domain forms, so it must be sold horizontally across unrelated verticals instead of to one defined buyer pool.
Also a speed-connoting generic word aimed at delivery, service and convenience operators, though it carries heavier retail/brand baggage and reads more like a noun-ish product tier than a pure open-ended modifier.
startups and services selling speed as the pitch (delivery, payments, quotes, bookings), plus marketers wanting a punchy campaign or redirect domain rather than a permanent home
What a .quick domain is
.quick is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, in our Brand category. Nobody has applied for .quick in its own right. It is named on ICANN’s list as part of an application for another string.
Is the .quick domain extension real yet?
.quick is not yet a domain extension you can register: nothing resolves under it, and no registrar sells names in it. Nobody has applied for it on the public record; the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round is the process that would decide whether it becomes one.
When can you buy a .quick domain?
You can’t yet. A .quick 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 .quick was .fast, delegated on 5 December 2015.
Is .quick a real TLD?
Not yet. .quick is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because ICANN’s list names .quick as part of an application for another string. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- Starlight (Namecheap) · first recordedICANN
- Link Freedom Group · now deactivated backupICANN
- Link Freedom Group · now abandonedICANN
- Link Freedom Group · first recordedLink Freedom Group
“LFGL2683T-T57519 · Link Freedom Group Ltd · replacement string of .easy · Deactivated MEI2699T-T97630 · Mirfak Exploration, Inc. · replacement string of .mod · Deactivated”ICANN
“.quick · Lifestyle · “For the impatient.””Link Freedom Group
- Band chosen: usable but limited (30-49), at its floor. .quick is a common English adjective with real semantic pull for speed-positioned offers (delivery, lending, quotes, ordering), so it can plausibly sell at volume on price and pick up campaign and left-of-dot registrations (e.g. pay.quick-style constructions). It sits below the strong-niche band because, by analogy with other adjective/lifestyle TLDs (.cool, .fun, .live-style strings), primary-identity use tends to be rare and unexplained adoption rarer still: an adjective does not name a category, so a serious project using it must justify the choice, and aftermarket demand for such strings has historically been thin (analogy, not measured here). It sits above the vanity/joke band because the word has genuine commercial meaning across many verticals rather than one-off novelty appeal, and speed is a durable marketing claim over the next 5 years. The applicant, Link Freedom Group, filed more than 300 strings in the ICANN 2026 round and lists .quick under a "Lifestyle" category with the tagline "For the impatient." — consistent with a broad portfolio positioning rather than a single-string flagship, which by analogy with other large-portfolio registries usually means adoption depends on registrar channel pricing rather than dedicated category marketing. Main market uncertainty: whether speed-first consumer brands treat an adjective TLD as brand-enhancing or as a discount signal; if a handful of visible fast-delivery or fintech brands adopted .quick as primary identity, the score would move toward the strong-niche band. Volume and pricing figures for comparable adjective TLDs are unknown; all comparisons here are qualitative analogy.