.scooter
Is .scooter a real TLD? Who’s applying to run it?
Nobody is chasing .scooter, as of 7 October 2026. One applicant claimed it and is out. We keep the entry on the record either way.
- Journey To The West
Niche product word: scooter shops and micromobility startups may register it, but few serious brands would make it their main address.
scooter rental and sharing operators, e-scooter retailers and repair shops, and micromobility startups wanting a keyword-exact web address
In Journey To The West's published portfolio of 323 strings submitted in the ICANN 2026 round. Their catalog line: “Compact, electric, and built for the last mile.”
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 exactly: a generic personal-vehicle product-category noun whose registrant base is dealers, manufacturers, rental outfits and enthusiast media rather than any single owner, and it only works if a fragmented retail/aftermarket trade adopts it as identity.
A short, singular, everyday two-wheeler category noun with the same buyer mix of makers, shops, share/rental operators and riders, and the same dependency on a broad hobby-plus-retail vertical showing up in volume.
Another narrow recreational-vehicle category noun sold to dealers, builders and charter/rental businesses, but it points at a higher-ticket, lower-transaction-count trade than a commodity urban vehicle, so the registrant economics differ.
What a .scooter domain is
.scooter is not a TLD yet. It is a string on our record of the ICANN 2026 new gTLD round, filed under Commerce. Nobody is chasing .scooter today. The applicants that claimed it are out.
Is the .scooter domain extension real yet?
.scooter 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 .scooter domain?
You can’t yet. A .scooter 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 .scooter was .motorcycles, delegated on 22 May 2014.
Is .scooter a real TLD?
Not yet. .scooter is not in the DNS root, so nothing resolves under it. It’s here because an applicant claimed .scooter and is no longer in it. We keep the entry, and every entry on this page links to its source.
- Journey To The West · now abandonedICANN
- Journey To The West · first recordedJourney To The West Corporation
“.scooter · Energy & Mobility · “Compact, electric, and built for the last mile.””Journey To The West Corporation
- Micromobility is a real, growing sector, but its visible brands overwhelmingly build identity on .com or country codes, and a dictionary product word rarely becomes a primary identity. By analogy (flagged as analogy), transport-product TLDs like .bike and .motorcycles have seen modest registration bases, weak brand signal, and thin aftermarkets, and .scooter is a narrower string than .bike. Likely demand over the next 5 years is local shops, rental outfits, and defensive or hobbyist registrations rather than sustained primary-identity use. I place it in the 10-29 band: it is above the 1-9 floor because a genuine niche industry exists that could plausibly register at small scale, but below 30-49 because there is little sign such transport-product strings clear volume or price-driven demand, again reasoning by analogy. Main market uncertainty: whether the e-scooter sharing and retail sector consolidates around web identities at all, or continues living inside apps and marketplaces where a domain matters little.