.rankings
Is .rankings a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody has applied for .rankings in its own right, as of 7 October 2026. SAF Inc named .rankings as the replacement string of its .wifi application.
A memorable label for sports tables, league ladders and "best of" lists, but few serious sites would make it their main address.
publishers of sports and esports standings, affiliate "best of" comparison sites, SEO and rating-tool makers, and university or industry ranking projects wanting a descriptive secondary address
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 almost exactly: a generic plural noun naming a unit of comparative-evaluation content, owned by nobody, whose primary users would be aggregators and affiliate publishers monetizing other people's reputations, and which only works if searchers treat the suffix as a trust marker for the verdict itself.
Same comparative-judgment bet aimed at the same listicle/affiliate publisher, differing only in part of speech — a superlative claim rather than the noun for the artifact — so it carries the same risk that the string asserts an editorial authority the registrant has to earn.
Same buyer and same decision-stage job (helping a shopper choose between options), but it names the activity rather than the published ranked output, so it leans more utility/commerce-tool than published-verdict.
What a .rankings domain is
.rankings 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 .rankings in its own right. It is named on ICANN’s list as part of an application for another string.
Is the .rankings domain extension real yet?
.rankings 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 .rankings domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .rankings name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .rankings was .reviews, delegated on 11 February 2014.
Is .rankings a real TLD?
Not yet. .rankings is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because ICANN’s list names .rankings as part of an application for another string. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- SAF Inc · first recordedICANN
“SI2594-T16545 · SAF Inc · replacement string of .wifi”ICANN
- Band chosen: 10-29 (vanity/narrow). The word reads naturally as a suffix (chess.rankings, college.rankings), which gives it memorability, but the buyer group that would adopt it as a primary identity is thin: established ranking publishers in sport, education and consumer comparison already carry their brand on legacy extensions, and most of the realistic demand is for descriptive secondary or campaign addresses. By analogy (flagged as analogy), comparable descriptive-noun strings from the 2012 round such as .reviews and .ratings-style words found a small, price-sensitive base rather than a category default, and .rankings is narrower in meaning than .reviews. It is not in the 30-49 band because volume registration on price is unlikely for a word with few natural registrants, and the aftermarket would be thin outside a handful of sport and 'best' keywords. It is not in the 1-9 band because a real, if small, market exists: league and federation standings pages, esports ladders, affiliate comparison operators and rating tools, some of which would genuinely use the address. The record shows one application, from SAF Inc, filed as an Applicant Support Program replacement string for .wifi, with contention count 0; this is noted neutrally and bears only on adoption pace, not on the string's market. Main market uncertainty: whether sports and esports standings operators, the most natural primary-identity buyers, would treat a ranking page as a standalone property worth its own domain rather than a section of an existing site.