.quiz
Is .quiz a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody has applied for .quiz in its own right, as of 7 October 2026. Phoenix Domain Partners named .quiz as the replacement string of its .comics application.
A clear word for trivia and quiz sites, but quizzes are mostly a feature inside bigger products, so demand stays small and cheap.
trivia and quiz-app makers, lead-generation quiz builders, teachers and edtech tools, and pub-quiz or fan communities wanting a short descriptive name
No applications recorded for this TLD yet.
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 as .quiz: a single plain-English noun naming one specific game/activity format, sold to a dispersed base of small operators and hobbyist organizers who would brand their whole venue on the format itself, with no single incumbent owning the word.
Also a narrow activity-format generic whose buyers are the people who run and host that one game, but it carries a mature, high-ARPU commercial operator class behind it, where .quiz has to hope a thinner hobbyist and app-maker base shows up.
The same kind of common-word play-and-entertainment generic bought by the same kind of content operator, but one rung up as the whole category rather than a single format, so it competes for identity with every format underneath it instead of defining one.
What a .quiz domain is
.quiz is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under Culture. Nobody has applied for .quiz in its own right. It is named on ICANN’s list as part of an application for another string.
Is the .quiz domain extension real yet?
.quiz 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 .quiz domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .quiz name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .quiz was .bingo, delegated on 4 February 2015.
Is .quiz a real TLD?
Not yet. .quiz is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because ICANN’s list names .quiz as part of an application for another string. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- Phoenix Domain Partners · first recordedICANN
“MLG2688T-T35036 · 101130013 Saskatchewan Ltd. · replacement string of .comics”ICANN
“MLG2688T-T61684 · 101130013 Saskatchewan Ltd. · replacement string of .beach · Deactivated XL2625T-T45963 · XYZ.COM LLC · replacement string of .mart · Deactivated”ICANN
“Phoenix Domain Partners published 13 strings for which it says it has applied and paid the application fees.”Domain Name Wire
- Band chosen: usable but limited (30-49), at its lower edge. The string is a plain English word with a real but narrow use case: quiz and trivia apps, marketing lead-generation quizzes, classroom tools and fan communities. By analogy (flagged as analogy) with earlier descriptive entertainment strings such as .games and .fun, a word like this attracts a steady trickle of hobby and small-business registrations plus some defensive or redirect use, but few serious projects adopt it as their primary identity, and the aftermarket for such strings has been thin. It is not in the band above (strong niche, 50-69) because quizzes are usually a feature inside a larger education, media or marketing product rather than a company category of their own, so there is no cluster of businesses whose natural default home this is, and adoption would need explaining. It is not in the band below (vanity, 10-29) because the demand is not event-driven or joke-based: quiz makers, trivia sites and lead-gen tools exist year-round and some would genuinely use the string as a hackable brand (word + .quiz). The record shows one application on the record, from Phoenix Domain Partners, filed as a replacement string for its primary .comics application, with no category tag recorded and a contention count of 0; this suggests a portfolio-style launch rather than a community-backed one, which by analogy tends to mean price-led volume rather than brand-led adoption. Main market uncertainty: whether any of the larger quiz-builder or edtech vendors adopt the string for a primary product identity, which would lift it toward the niche band, versus using it only for redirects and campaign microsites.