.rare
Is .rare a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody has applied for .rare in its own right, as of 7 October 2026. Radix named .rare as the replacement string of its .mart application.
A catchy adjective ending for collectibles and luxury brands; memorable, but few serious projects would make it their main name.
collectors, collectibles and vintage dealers, trading-card and digital-scarcity projects, luxury and limited-edition brands, and rare-disease organisations wanting a short descriptive ending
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.
Both are bare evaluative adjectives that make an unverifiable value claim about whatever noun precedes them, sold broadly to premium sellers who want the modifier itself to be the promise, so the registry's whole bet is that buyers will pay for a tier signal rather than a category.
Same bet of an adjective meaning 'not the ordinary stock' — it works only if dealers and curated retailers want scarcity/curation framing on their primary identity, and it fails the same way by being a modifier nobody searches for on its own.
Another quality-grade adjective with no owner and no gatekeeper, betting that sellers of high-end goods will adopt a grading word as a namespace, though its 'best available' meaning is a looser claim than .rare's scarcity claim and it carries more generic-utility pull.
What a .rare domain is
.rare is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under Commerce. Nobody has applied for .rare in its own right. It is named on ICANN’s list as part of an application for another string.
Is the .rare domain extension real yet?
.rare 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 .rare domain?
You can’t yet. ICANN publishes every applied-for string on Reveal Day, 7 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. A .rare name can only be registered after that, once the string is delegated and its registry opens. Last round's closest parallel to .rare was .luxe, delegated on 15 May 2014.
Is .rare a real TLD?
Not yet. .rare is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because ICANN’s list names .rare as part of an application for another string. Every entry on this page links to its source.
- Radix · first recordedICANN
“RTIS2674T-T19440 · Radix Technologies Inc SEZC · replacement string of .mart”ICANN
“LFGL2683T-T90578 · Link Freedom Group Ltd · primary · contention set 2026-213 PTL2645T-T73740 · Pirin Tablet, LLC · primary · contention set 2026-213 RTIS2674T-T99763 · Radix Technologies Inc SEZC · replacement string of .robotics · Deactivated VIL2659T-T55269 · Verse International Limited · replacement string of .did · Deactivated”ICANN
“Radix has applied for these TLDs; we do not own or operate them today.”Radix
- Band chosen: 10-29 (vanity/narrow), at its top. .rare is a generic English adjective, and adjective TLDs tend to be bought as word-play suffixes ("something.rare") rather than as the primary identity of a serious project; by analogy (flagged as analogy) with existing adjective and slang endings such as .cool, .lol, .wtf and .vip, demand on such strings has tended to be shallow, promotional or price-driven, with thin aftermarkets. It is not in the 30-49 band because there is no clear category whose members would register at volume for utility: collectibles, trading cards, luxury limited editions, digital scarcity and rare-disease groups each touch the word, but none treats "rare" as a category label the way .shop or .store work for retail, so the brand signal is a mood rather than a descriptor. It is not in the 1-9 band because the word is short, globally understood, positive, and fits several real communities, so a modest steady trickle of registrations and some memorable brand uses are plausible. The application on the record is a standard application by Radix Technologies Inc SEZC, filed as a replacement string for .mart; Radix's existing portfolio is distributed through mainstream registrar channels, which by analogy (flagged) raises the likelihood of volume availability and promotional pricing rather than premium positioning. Main market uncertainty: whether any scarcity-driven community (collectibles marketplaces, digital-collectible projects, luxury drops) adopts .rare as a recognisable identity, which could lift it into the usable-but-limited band. Registration counts, pricing and aftermarket results for comparable adjective TLDs are unknown here and I assert none from memory.