.race
Is .race a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
.race is not contested. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list, as of 7 October 2026. It is Identity Digital.
A niche address for motorsport, running and sim-racing events; usable, but rarely a serious brand's main home and worth little resold.
event organisers and motorsport, running, cycling and sim-racing teams who want a short event or season address; secondarily hobbyists and fan sites
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.
The same word in gerund form making the identical bet: an open sport-activity generic whose primary-identity buyers are the circuits, teams, series and event organisers of a competition sport, with no owner of the category and no community gate.
Also an event-noun generic rather than an activity label — the thing you enter and stage — so it bets that promoters and venues will hang their identity on the name of the contest itself, just at a narrower niche than .race.
A short verb-noun with the same split personality as .race — an athletic meaning plus everyday non-sport senses — so the bet rests on the string's dual-use utility rather than on a clean single category.
What a .race domain is
.race is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under Culture. One application for it is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list.
Is the .race domain extension real yet?
.race 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 .race domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .race name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .race was .racing, delegated on 3 April 2015.
Is .race a real TLD?
Not yet. .race is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because .race is on ICANN’s Reveal Day list of applied-for strings. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- Identity Digital · first recordedICANN
“TCL2632T-T11771 · Tidal Case, LLC · replacement string of .bakery TCL2632T-T35528 · Tidal Case, LLC · replacement string of .more TCL2632T-T43447 · Tidal Case, LLC · replacement string of .national TCL2632T-T59285 · Tidal Case, LLC · replacement string of .program”ICANN
- Band chosen: 30-49 (usable but limited), at its floor. The string names a real, recurring activity vertical: motorsport, running and cycling events, horse racing and sim-racing communities all have a natural use for a short event-day or season address, and a large registry channel (Identity Digital is the recorded applicant, standard type, one application on the record) makes volume registration on price plausible by analogy with other dictionary-word strings in that operator's portfolio. It is not in 50-69 because there is no sign of sustained primary-identity demand: serious teams, series and event brands tend to keep their main identity on a legacy or country namespace, the word carries a second meaning (ethnicity) that limits brand-safe use, and the neighbouring string .racing already occupies the same vertical, which by analogy with that string's market history suggests registrations driven by promotional pricing rather than identity, with a thin aftermarket. It is not in 10-29 because the event vertical is real and recurring rather than a joke or one-off trend, and short event URLs are a genuine, if occasional, primary use. Whether a .race already operates in market alongside this application is unknown from the verified facts. Main market uncertainty: whether event organisers will treat a .race address as a primary identity or only as a redirect, and how much of the niche .racing has already absorbed.